COLD flexibility

[RaceTheSun]

i want to have a good cold flexibility but i have a problem.
since i've been stretching my cold flexibility is nearly at the same level. i want to increase my cold flexibility so that i can kick high oder go down into a split without a warm up.
do you think it will help if i do sometimes stretching without a warm up??

thanks for your help

[Wesker]

read jujis stretching tutorial !!!!

Cold splits are usually achieved after you're very comfortable in the splits.

[Zeff]

Don't stretch without a warm up, please. Stretch upon waking up, or after breakfast/showering if you prefer.

[jkarate212]

personny i can NEVER stretch in the morning or before 10:00, even with a warmup. i have much less flexibility for some reason

[keri]

Same. Midday is when I can get splits, but when I wake up, my legs only make like a 140 degree angle.

[Ashtar]

You should train when warm, even if the goal is cold flexibility. Even though training allows you to take on measured risk, there are no solid theories or testimonials on how training cold might improve your cold flexibility.

Getting very flexible with warm stretching, doing it very often and becoming good at relaxing, until you can reach your max RoM in less and less time, is good.

Then, once you can get it in zero time, you can do shorter warmups and get that down to zero time to test what you're capable of.

Stretching warm is still the best way, you just do it cold to TEST your current levels, in case you ever had to do it cold.

Of course... being able to stretch cold indoors with the heat turned up probably doesn't mean you'd be capable of stretching cold out on a winter night if you got jumped or wanted to throw down.

[short gorilla]

Good cold flexibitily usually comes from good dynamic flexibility. Make sure to do then enitre spectrem of flexibility training, not just the splits.

[wynnema]

you can kick cold by develpoing your dynamnic flexibilty. twice a day for 10 weeks should be sufficient.

[Lobo]

There's really no practical advantage in being able to do splits cold, unless you have some obscure reason for having to do so.

[TKD_Andy]

There's really no practical advantage in being able to do splits cold, unless you have some obscure reason for having to do so.

you're an idiot. Seriously, you are.

no practical advantage of having superior flex cold? Seriously, do you even think these things through befor posting them?

how about i give you a reason to get you thinking:

ZOMG! if i can do splits cold then im waaay less likely to pull the muscles used to to splits!!! lololol.

anyway, to the people who actually posted useful things in this thread; wynemma you're spot on :good:

please, post something about my supposed crossdressing dad, my fantastically emo hair, my extremely pale skin, my black belt being worthless, or something along those lines.

[Lobo]

Oh my god, you fucking moron, Andy. Where did I say that having flexibility was a bad thing (although actually excessive flexibility in connective tissue can be)? I was specifically referring to the arbitary goal of being able to do splits cold.

On a side note, you're like the ugliest person on this forum; in fact, you're easily one of the ugliest people I've ever seen - including grotesque freaks of nature.

[TKD_Andy]

you took a long time to reply, and it wasnt worth the wait.

all i read was blah blah freak blah flexible blah.

Try harder next time

[Lobo]

You fail, son.

[TKD_Andy]

if i was your son, i dont think i'd be able to type, what with only having three fingers on one hand and a claw for the other, and possibly only one eye.

actually, i might make a thread where people submit their drawings as to what your kids would look like after you impregnated your mother.

[Lobo]

Ha ha ha! Poor Andy.

[J.B. II]

haha, andy is really funny, branleh.

[DeeJay]

How will flexibility affect my branle?

[Dobi]

@RaceTheSun: Isometric stretching with concentrating on strength-gains in the prolonged position is the best way to attain cold flexibility.

[Ashtar]

Lobo: cold flex is good so if someone asks you to trick you don't have to stand around doing jumping jacks for a minute before you can drop into the splits for them.

It's also good if someone jumps you and you need to do a big kick without pulling a muscle.

[Gusch]

the bad part about the big kick is that your opponent will pull you something if the lacking flexibility doesn't.

[Ashtar]

This is true, big flashy moves shouldn't be thrown around if you can't use them, but that applies to non-flashy ones too.