How To Actually Get The Splits Fast

Most people try to get their splits by pulling harder on their muscles. But if your joints don't have enough freedom of movement, there's simply no space for your muscles to move into — no matter how long you hold the stretch.

That's why mobility comes first. Moving your joints through their full range creates the space your muscles need to reach deeper positions.

It also prepares your body for the flexibility work that follows, so the rest of your workout starts from a better place — instead of forcing a stretch your joints aren't ready for.

Here's what most stretching routines ignore: your body will only let you go as deep as it feels strong and in control.

If you've never been strong in a deep position, your body treats it as unfamiliar territory and holds you back. Passive stretching tries to wait that out. End-range strength training takes a different route — building strength and control right at the edge of your range.

As your body becomes more comfortable accessing those deeper positions, your flexibility can progress faster than it would with passive stretching alone. And every bit of range you gain is range you can actually control and use.

PNF stretching sounds technical, but the idea is simple.

Ease into a stretch, then contract the muscle you're stretching — push against the floor without actually moving. Then relax, breathe out, and sink a little deeper as the muscle lets go.

Alternating contraction and relaxation like this can help you access a deeper range of motion than simply holding a passive stretch and waiting. Built into a structured workout, it helps you get far more out of your time than holding position after position for minutes on end.

Static stretching isn't the enemy — it still has an important role. The problem comes when it's done first, or when it's the entire workout.

Save your static holds for the end. By then, mobility, end-range strength and PNF have already helped you access a deeper range than you started with.

Now's the time to settle in and spend time in that new range. Rather than trying to do all the work on their own, static holds reinforce the range you've built during the workout.

Put these four methods together and flexibility training looks completely different. No more long, low-intensity sessions holding one stretch after another and hoping for the best.

Instead, every session becomes a structured, purposeful workout — more efficient, and without needing hours of stretching every week. Each step sets up the next:

Knowing the four methods is one thing. Turning them into the right exercises, in the right order, workout after workout, is another — and that's where most people get stuck, piecing together random routines and hoping they add up.

That's exactly what The Ultimate Flexibility Bundle is for. It gives you structured flexibility workouts built around these principles — mobility, end-range strength, PNF and static holds, already put together for you.

No guesswork and no hours of stretching every week. Just follow the workouts and progress from feeling stiff to deeper flexibility and your splits — far more efficiently than a stretching-only approach.

You'll be in good company, too: these workouts have been used by over 20,000 people.