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She began making YouTube videos in 2016 when she was 14 [4] after gaining a small following on Instagram. At the time, Instagram only allowed 15-second videos and McNulty needed more time to share flexibility tips. [5] [7] Her YouTube content focuses on flexibility and stretching. [4]
An oversplit by former Olympic gymnast Irina Tchachina Stretching cat. Flexibility is the anatomical range of movement in a joint or series of joints, and length in muscles that cross the joints to induce a bending movement or motion.
This large angle significantly stretches, and thus demonstrates excellent flexibility of, the hamstring and iliopsoas muscles. Consequently, splits are often used as a stretching exercise to warm up and enhance the flexibility of leg muscles. A split that goes beyond 180° is called an oversplit.
Elisa Meneghini (born 24 July 1997 in Como) is an Italian artistic gymnast, a member of the Italian national women's artistic gymnastics team, [1] the 2014 Italian champion in all-around, floor exercise and balance beam.
Gymnastics is one of the most dangerous sports, with a very high injury rate seen in girls age 11 to 18. [52] Some gymnastic movements which were allowed in past competitions are now banned for safety reasons; for example, the Thomas salto, a twisting salto landed with a forward roll on the floor, was banned after several injuries.
Rhythmic gymnastics (also called: rhythmic sportive gymnastics (RSG); rhythmics) - Olympic sport for one woman (or 5 women in group competition) consisting of a balletic floor exercise which demonstrates leaps, turns, balance and flexibility while moving and tossing hand-held apparatus: a ball, a rope, a hoop, two clubs, or a ribbon. Men's ...
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Samira Mustafaeva, Russian rhythmic gymnast A stretching Siberian tiger. Stretching is a form of physical exercise in which a specific muscle or tendon (or muscle group) is deliberately expanded and flexed in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and achieve comfortable muscle tone. [1]