Feel-Good Stretches for Splits // SATURDAY // 28-Day Summer Sculpt

Today's workout is extremely important because we will be stretching out the muscles you've been working for the past week. I see all your comments about being sore and today we're gonna give your muscles the TLC they need with 20 stretches! PLUS, each week you do these stretches, you will get lower and lower toward a full split! You'll just need to grab a yoga strap, but if you don't have one, a towel will work!

Your Stretches:

Squat Folds
Squat Shoulder Openers
Hip stretch (R)
Hip stretch (L)
Straight Leg Stretch (R)
IT Band Stretch (R)
Side Leg Stretch (R)
Straight Leg Stretch (L)
IT Band Stretch (L)
Side Leg Stretch (L)
Quad Stretch (R)
Quad Stretch (L)
Double Quad Stretch
Pike
Half Split (R)
Split (R)
Half Split (L)
Split (L)
Butterfly
Straddle

Workout starts at 2:39!

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Cassey Ho is an award-winning fitness instructor, entrepreneur and online personality. As the creator behind Blogilates, the #1 female fitness channel on YouTube, she’s transformed millions of lives through helping them achieve their strength and weight-loss goals. She focuses on making fitness fun and the results are evident. Cassey's unique format, POP Pilates©, which launched as a workout video on YouTube in 2009, has become a live fitness class that can be taken at gyms all over the world with over 3,000 POP Pilates classes being taught monthly. Her authenticity continues to shine through, making her one of the most relatable fitness icons online and beyond. She's also the author of the best-selling book, Hot Body Year Round and is the designer of her own activewear line, POPFLEX.

With a wide range of free workout videos available, Cassey's channel focuses on ab exercises, butt & thigh exercises, arm exercises, pilates, cardio routines, fat burning workouts, high intensity interval training workouts (HIIT), stretching and flexibility routines and so much more!

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[speromeliora]

Just finished today's workout and checking this one as a preparation. Yay, we're almost done with our first week! I'm so proud of all of us who are keeping it up. We've been taking care of our bodies and spending hours to get healthier, stronger and feel better.
You are great and you can finish this 28-day challenge! Don't give up :з

[abij]

Just a tip for people who want to get there splits, you can't just do one tiny stretch a week, you HAVE to stretch EVERYDAY to see results! Last year a stretched for the whole summer each day and got my splits and even middle splits, i also now can do a bridge and this year i learnt how to go onto my ebows in bridge which was a real achievement for me! Whatever you're working for keep at it because it's all worth it in the end!

A YEAR LATER:
Hi I'm back, it's been a year and not much has changed through my flexibility journey as I've become rlly busy and lost all motivation during lockdown and corona. (Kept up daily stretches tho) I'm re-gaining my motivation and i hope by the end of next year I'll achieve a leg hold, over splits and a walkover. Remember everyones goals are different depending on body type and age so don't feel disheartened if someone is better than you because i know I'm not the best but i just want what's best for my body and that's what I've learnt. Love what you can do <3

[sierradwyer]

Thanks for including stretching and recovery in your program! Love the mat!

[nathanmiller]

I have been doing this video once a week for quite a while now, but every time I open it up, or start any of the other Summer Sculpt videos, when the intro song starts playing its catchy tune my mind is flooded with nostalgia from this past summer~ my first summer married, a summer spent living and working at my church, and, most of all, it is a sensory reminder of how this 28-Day Summer Sculpt began my re-introduction back into my own fitness journey, and how proud of myself I was when it was done! How strong I felt, encouraged I felt... Amazing. So, for anyone out there looking for some motivation to begin your own journey, and you start these videos, and they kick your butt the first few times (They certainly kicked mine!!), I would just say, don't give up! And if you don't, someday, you too will look back with fondness at these sweaty memories, and be amazed and in awe of how far you--yes, you!--can come, if you just don't give up. (Thanks for this awesome series, Cassey! You're one of a kind. [The best kind.])

[leilapoo]

Who's watching while going crazy in quarantine

[angelamayjune]

When the stretches are more challenging than the workouts... 😅 Cassey's flexibility & those splits are goals!

[brookemullins]

Can we just talk about how flexible she is 🤯

[racheln.davies]

While still on bed rest, I'm following every video. Thanks my Blogilates family for being a part of this challenge. ❤💕

[mariaeugeniavictorialucy]

So as weird as this will sound, at 52 yo I have decided to get my splits. It all started with a high colesterol warning from my doctor. I started exercising and stretching daily with one day rest. Nothing too crazy. And now I am determined to get flexible for health and mobility. I started stretching for splits two weeks ago. Although I am not closer to the floor, I am now confortable where I am. Not dying like when I started… I guess that’s improvement. Determination and consistency. I will get there if it takes me a year.

[nikitasmith]

I can’t believe how close she got me to the spilts 😮 I was nowhere near the spilts and by the end of one of her videos, I was 2cm away from the spits😮😊
Thank you so much ☺️

[nanakoc]

"I want you to have space between your hip and your thigh". See the way my belly is set up doesn't allow for that😂😂😂

[egghead-]

I love seeing George make his appearance in the video, it makes me forget I am in pain for a split second! No pun intended

[emilythomas]

Cassey could you share about your 1 1/2 hour stretch routine? I love this video and I want to keep working on my flexibility!

[nourzakut]

Omg 😱 I just did my splits after I followed this routine for the first time

[nizamwanza]

This is the best splits video in the world

[NikkiAlaba]

I found this quite difficult because my legs are not flexible at all but it feels so good to stretch. All the tension in my body just releases which is really nice.

[porrrnesianparrrapio]

George pulling Cassey's t-shirt is like junk food pulling me away from the yoga mat.

[Rayslasagne]

I keep doing this routine every other night before bed and honestly this is one of the best I've seen for the splits! I already have my left splits down but my right splits need a lot of work still but I'm already starting to notice improvements. I like how you really let us take our time to get in to each stretch in this routine and talk us through the whole process.

[katerinajaneckova]

For anyone who wonders if this can help them with the splits, the answer is yes. I made a bet with my friends, and I had 4 months to do the split. I have been watching tons of videos, not seeing much progress. Two or three weeks before the bet was up, I started following this one, about 5 times week, and I got results super fast. I went from about 15 cm above the ground to 0 in a matter of two/three weeks. This is a great video to follow.

[falsefacefalseheart]

I've never been able to get even close to doing splits but I'm on week 4 of this and I can almost do them on my left side! Plus my pike has gotten so much better since starting this summer sculpt!