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Train Like a Ballerina on Instagram: "HOW TO: Improve your Penché 🤷🏼‍♀️ Penché is a challenging movement that requires both strength and flexibility. It’s also a big surprise to dancers when I tell them improving their Penché has hardly anything to do with your top leg and EVERYTHING to do with your bottom leg. Dancers also often focus on training flexible hamstrings to get high extensions and splits, but are lacking in strength, especially when the hamstring is lengthening or doing an eccentr How To Get Your Leg Hold Higher, Flexible Hamstrings, Ballet Workouts, Flexibility Tips, Leg Training, Strong Legs, Leg Extensions, How To Get Better, Get High
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How To Get Your Leg Hold Higher

Train Like a Ballerina on Instagram: "HOW TO: Improve your Penché 🤷🏼‍♀️ Penché is a challenging movement that requires both strength and flexibility. It’s also a big surprise to dancers when I tell them improving their Penché has hardly anything to do with your top leg and EVERYTHING to do with your bottom leg. Dancers also often focus on training flexible hamstrings to get high extensions and splits, but are lacking in strength, especially when the hamstring is lengthening or doing an…

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Ballex w/ Hanna on Instagram: "🔥Need More Stability? 🔥We ALWAYS DO! 💥KEEP READING WHY!⬇️ 🔥Not only for dancers but for any athlete looking to connect to their deep leg & core muscles to stabilize and create a STRONGER BODY all over! ⤴️ this is for you! ▫️This move is FOR…… ✔️Higher développés. YES. Higher. 🔥Why?! ↪️ Because the stability & strength in your standing leg creates wayyyyy more lightness to the développé leg. It also takes the stress off your hip flexor doing allll the work. You will also be able to get it higher because your base will be solid!!! ✔️More / better balanced Pirouettes 🔥Why?! ↪️ Because the standing leg holding you up will have the strength & connection to hold you on your highest relevé and LONGER! ✔️Deeper pliés in contemporary work 🔥Wh Hip Flexor, Strong Body, Core Muscles, Hold You, Muscles, Dancer, Reading, Instagram
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Ballex w/ Hanna on Instagram: "🔥Need More Stability? 🔥We ALWAYS DO! 💥KEEP READING WHY!⬇️ 🔥Not only for dancers but for any athlete looking to connect to their deep leg & core muscles to stabilize and create a STRONGER BODY all over! ⤴️ this is for you! ▫️This move is FOR…… ✔️Higher développés. YES. Higher. 🔥Why?! ↪️ Because the stability & strength in your standing leg creates wayyyyy more lightness to the développé leg. It also takes the stress off your hip flexor doing…

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Dylan Ratzlaff on Instagram: "When learning this, here are some tips to think about - drive your hips up! Give yourself as much airtime as possible - Keep your supporting shoulder over top of your wrist Step 1 : Floor leap with bent knees and landing back on the floor Step 2 : Floor leap adding straight legs Step 3 : Try to land on your feet instead of your knees. Drive your hips up to get more height. Really push off of your supporting leg. Step 4 : Practice switching in front of your first leg. step 5: Combine the floor leap to your feet and the switch leg." How To Do A Switch Leap, Dylan Ratzlaff, Dancer Tips, Dance Leaps, Acro Tricks, Front Walkover, Floor Work, Gymnastics Skills, School Gym
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Dylan Ratzlaff on Instagram: "When learning this, here are some tips to think about - drive your hips up! Give yourself as much airtime as possible - Keep your supporting shoulder over top of your wrist Step 1 : Floor leap with bent knees and landing back on the floor Step 2 : Floor leap adding straight legs Step 3 : Try to land on your feet instead of your knees. Drive your hips up to get more height. Really push off of your supporting leg. Step 4 : Practice switching in front of your…

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Lift That Leg! 7 Stretches for a Higher Y Scale Leg Hold — Dani Winks Flexibility Leg Hold Stretches, Inner Thigh Stretches, Standing Split, Inner Thigh Muscle, Basic Mechanics, Hamstring Muscles, Shoulder Stretches, Physical Activities For Kids, Hip Stretches
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Lift That Leg! 7 Stretches for a Higher Y Scale Leg Hold — Dani Winks Flexibility

A “Y Scale” or a side leg hold is one of my favorite standing contortion shapes because it’s one of the first ones I ever learned to do. Most students tend to enjoy this shape because it looks cool (obviously!) and is typically easier to train than a “traditional” standing split or the even-more-com

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Simon Nieland on Instagram: "5 Exercises to Toes-to-Bar Perform 4-5 sets, twice per week, and stay consistent. Level 1 - Tuck Hang Add 2 seconds to your holds each session until you can do multiple sets of 00:30. Level 2 Extensions. The Tucks taught you how to engage the Hip Flexors. Now keep that engagement as you extend the knees. This forces the Hip Flexors to adapt to the full weight of your legs. It’s normal in the beginning to be below 90 degrees, you WILL get higher each week if you’re consistent. Level 3 - Hanging Leg Lift These must be performed with a hold at the top, and you must get the toes above the belly button at least on the first rep. If you can’t do this, go back to level 2 and add more volume. Level 4 - Straddle TTB. Amazing tool to bridge the gap to the fu Hip Flexors, Stay Consistent, Leg Lifts, Level 4, Hip Flexor, Level 3, In The Beginning, Skills Development, 90 Degrees
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Simon Nieland on Instagram: "5 Exercises to Toes-to-Bar Perform 4-5 sets, twice per week, and stay consistent. Level 1 - Tuck Hang Add 2 seconds to your holds each session until you can do multiple sets of 00:30. Level 2 Extensions. The Tucks taught you how to engage the Hip Flexors. Now keep that engagement as you extend the knees. This forces the Hip Flexors to adapt to the full weight of your legs. It’s normal in the beginning to be below 90 degrees, you WILL get higher each week…

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