Ballet question :)?

hello, i don't do ballet but i would love to start next year and i'm 14 am i a bit old? i can't evan do the splits but i'm stretching everyday. i love how ballet people lepe and bring there leg right up to there head. could someone tell me how to do it ot how to stretch for it : ) thankyou for reading

Ballet question :)?say yes

It's not too late for you to start ballet. There are women in the adult class at my studio who started at 30 or even older!

It's really good that you stretch every day. Just make sure that when you do deeper stretches like splits and things that you hold for a while, you warm up beforehand so you decrease the chance of pulling a muscle. It takes a long time to achieve the flexibility and strength needed to hold your leg up that high because even if you are flexible enough that you can pull your leg up there with your hand, you may not have the strength to hold it there when you let go and have to hold it with your core muscles. You don't need to worry about this too much before you start classes, but you can start to work on flexibility. Warm up, meaning you run around your house or do some other activity until your body feels warmish and you're sweating lightly. I usually just start running/dancing laps around my house, lol. What I usually do when I work my splits is sit with my legs directly in front of me, sitting up straight, and bend one leg. Then I reach forward toward the toe of the leg that's still straight and hold it for 30 seconds. It took a while (I am a very unflexible person by nature) but now I can lay my upper body flat on either leg. That should be your goal. Then you can go into a half-split, where your front leg is bent but your back leg is straight, and you lean back to stretch the front of the hip of your back leg and hold it for 30 seconds. Then go into the splits as far as you can go with the same legs in front and back and hold it for 2-3 minutes. It will hurt, but you will see lots of improvement. Do the same on the other leg. To work on your center splits, sit in the same position I described before, with your legs straight in front of you and your back straight. Then open your legs to either side as far as you can. Start to lean your upper body as far forward as you can go and hold it for as long as you can. Then you can bend to each side to stretch both legs and lean forward again. You can also do the wall stretch, where you scoot yourself up to an empty wall, lay down on your back and scoot yourself forward so your butt is touching the wall, and open your legs against the wall. Gravity should stretch you over time, so just grab a book and sit there for several minutes.

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