If you can't get to the gym, you can stand between two folding chairs and go down as far as you can using your hands or forearms on the seats to hold yourself up off the floor as far as you need to.
@MrFlyingKicker That's it. You can get hip flexors to loosen up with regular split holds--work up to 2 minutes in the maximum position you can get into. Lowering into the position is the best way until you get close to the floor. In bodyflow the splits are started from a lunge with hands on the floor. Then the front leg slowly straightens while the back leg slides away into the maximum position the person can get into.
@MrFlyingKicker In full splits you keep shoulders & hips straight ahead. Turning to the side like I did at the end of doing each side on the floor releases the hip flexor of the back leg from full split position. Ideally in full splits facing forward both arms would be raised up in "goal" position (which I did when I was younger).You can see in the video on my bad side that my right hip flexor is tighter (from a rib injury) which keeps my right thigh from getting completely to the floor.
@dlaw70 aha so my hip flexors could be the reason why i don't get all the way down ? because my hamstrings are flexible i can touch my tight with my cheast , but i'm too far from the front split
