One of my Taekwando master told me about the 3 Ts. Temperature, you need warm muscles. Tension, stretch until you hit your limit. Time, hold the tension for as long as possible, the longer the better. And of course you need consistency. Doing it everyday.

This dude is so underrated

"getting flexible is neither difficult or complicated" me, who has definitely gotten a back spasm from sneezing too hard: "oh okay"

I'm glad someone finally mentioned the hot shower hack ❤

Yep - my first goal was touching my toes, and even now after months of not specifically focusing on that skill, I can still comfortably do so and often go past the toe-touch. You will slowly lose flexibility over time if you don't practice at all, but (particularly if you're still doing at least SOME flexibility work) it takes a lot lot longer to lose than people realise, and is easier to regain if you DO lose it

I’d love to see some exercises that help with neck/upper back.

I can't believe we get such quality content for free... what a time to be alive

Not going to lie. The fact that you acknowledged the way I go to the gym to stretch is giving me chills I literally do that. One day weights one day stretching on alternating days

Dude you're so positive! I genuinely feel happy when I see your reels. What a bright man you must be in person. Keep up the great work

Consistancy is the hard thing 😅

It's also crucial to remind people not to stretch their tendons but rather to stretch the muscles, because there are still lots and lots of people who still stretch "the old way" - they just get into a position and force their way through it, sometimes even with another person pushing them over their limits. Which is completely tragic and cause your tendons and ligaments to be torn apart and they are NOT designed to be stretched. The correct way of stretching is to focus on relaxing your *muscles* in a stretching position and going deeper *slowly* , never in a "pumping" motion, but always small step at a time. I'm writing it for the people who don't know and actually care for their health, cause David surely knows it very well already Stay flexy :D

I am inspired more by the fact you are not some muscle bound gym rat but an average looking dude with exceptional muscle strengh and decieving limberness. That gives all us "normal" people hope and motivation !

Thanks! I’m a ballet, hip hop and lyrical dancer so I need to become more flexible! I’ll keep trying!

A tennis court is where I was first able to do a full side split. Random but thought it was neat as you're doing stretches on a tennis court.

david, i love your fitness and flexibility tips so much! you’ve encouraged me to try deep squatting and it’s been increasing my knee strength considerably. i also love your wife and her energy so much. bless your little family ❤

man I’m working on my middle splits and it is not easy at ALL props to you David you’re amazing

As a fencer this front split training will be very useful! Keep up the amazing content!

You encourage me to improve my flexibility and strength.

Him sitting in that middle split has me crying for some reason 😂😂😂 I wish

I need a full length video on this

He’s such a godsend. this is literally the best generation to grow up in, we’re all flexible and jacked from calisthenics, weed is for the most part legal and we all have smart phones and Apple Watches like we’re from Star Trek. I’m I wrong to love the times we’re living in?🤔

Love you man! One of my favourite channels on YT! STAY FLEXY!

Warm-ups are great for preparing to do a workout

This is the best video he's made, for me. These seem like detailed enough instructions I can follow to get to place I want to be. Detail is often clarity, and clarity is necessary. Thanks, man. May God bless you.

Dudeee my life changed dramatically since I started doing mobility exercises, just being able to move my body better than usual helped me lose 20 pounds. Without trying. Inconsistently too! Thank u so much, and it helped me with my rotator cuff. THANK YOU

This dude is rad!

I've been searching many times about 'how to learn splits'. I've been ended up in many multiple splits tutorial.This is the best tutorial ever I saw Thanks. ❤❤❤ God bless you.

Damn I so needed this video. I sort of just resigned to the fact I’m not flexible but why. I’m gonna try this ! I had to learn the hard way (ankle injuries) the importance of knee and hip mobility and what happens when you neglect it

I love that you do the middle split correctly with your knees facing upward. So many people think they know how to do the splits, but they don’t use the right technique.

You're my hero. I work from home at my desk all day. I have to take multiple showers a day to loosen my muscles. Hamstrings are always extremely tight because of the chair. Traps in so much pain on the daily from raising my arm to the desk even with proper support. Going to start following your workouts every day.

Love the delivery, bro.

thank you so much i am getting flexible

Thanks for always sharing tips and guides and everything! You’re such a positive person and when I stop being lazy I’m going to actually follow your advice and videos to be flexy!

Love this!!

You inspire me and make me feel like I can actually get flexible. Thanks David!

Dude thanks to you and a few other legitimately good people on youtube, I'm actually seeing muscke gains and more strength and flexibility. Stick with it yall, I'm a woman so i dont gain muscle mass as fast as you guys do, but after about 5 months i noticed some legit muscle definition and more strength in my shoukders and arms + less back pain! Ive always been super stiff so I'm still working on the flexy part, but uve noticed a lot of improvements there too. I'd love if you could talk more about not being able to touch your toes, like not even get close😭 because my legs just dont seem to want to get flexible even after months of deep stretching. I want to be able to touch my toes and do the slipts and all that stuff!

Thank you bro 💯💯💯... Another inspiring video

This guy has the energy from an animated animal and i love it!!

Thank you for your concern for others just can’t figure out what a person’s need . Very well done.

I've been on a calisthenics mission and flexibility, balance, grip and strength have found this awesome equilibrium, and is also bringing me to channels like this. oorah

Just amazing work and everything else

Anyone else just watch for the amazing stunts

Glad to see you back David! ☺️

I’m starting to believe dude is a living life hack.

Me as first time viewer: “did his arm just-“ Veteran subscriber:”yes, yes it did”

Just realized that, david moves the way i play around with my toys in my childhood

He’s said “flexy” so many times that “flexible” sounded strange

Thank you dude 🙏

My legs are stiff as a popsicle stick and feel like they would crack doing any of these leg flexibility stretches hahah

Yeeeeees! Inspired momentanious ❤

You are the best. Thank you for the ebooks and content

An honest, realistic, long term thinking fitness influencer? I literally shit myself watching this. Good job kid!

I love your videos ❤

Those shoes are absolutely insane

You are way more flexible than I have ever been, no matter how hard I try.

I learned to bend backwards far enough to put my heels in my eye sockets in elementary school, didn't stretch my back again properly until high school and I could still do it.

The most important aspect of "stretching" is the breath. Most people strain and hold their breath while trying to stretch. In reality you can't stretch a muscle. You RELAX the target area.

Always grateful thank you David

The way he said stay flexy💀

Friend: Dude how did you learn the splits Me: I just took a hot shower😂

Awesome!!!🎉Thank you.

Oh my goodness tysm 💗 this impoved my front splits

I’d really like to see a more full length video from David going over some exercises or stretches to do to get more flexy, or if he already has some shorts like that please point me in their direction 👍

I like learning. I send a smile.

The toe shoes are killing me 😭

with asthanga yoga breathing you can warm up within seconds. I grew up with martial arts but since I approached asthanga yoga it brought everything to another level.

You should make a video listing many of the different skills. I'd love to have a list of all and ask the AI to generate a training routine based on it.

I use to be contortionist flexible. Then I quit cheer and stopped stretching for years. Working back towards that

Speaking as someone who never had any flexibility (even as a child, I could neither sit in lotus nor touch my toes, and I still can't), getting limber is incredibly, monumentally, slow and difficult.

Omg the last one is easy for me soooo easy 😊❤I can do it like forever ❤❤❤😊

I just do a stretch for like 3 minutes, but I do it once. No scientific evidence to prove it, and it also gets quite boring during the exercise but it worked for me because I have done the same thing for like a year. So just don't get injured and stay consistent.

Amazing, absolutely perfect I thank you for your informative content

Bro got that back there

I never knew that the term "warming up" in a workout was literal, but it makes complete sense. Higher temps increases bloodflow and relaxes muscles to protect from injury while exercising. Crazy I never put those dots together

I see you rocking the Vibrams, would you recommend?

Need stretches for my joints! My knees are killing 😫

“Switching out the exercises for stretches, that’s basically how you should stretch.”

I just teach myself all of my skills at school at lunch 😂😂😂

You are the Best...cause You show what is needed as well as how to❣️from Harrisburg Pennsylvania❣️💜💜💜❤️💜

I was watching vtuber clips, how did I end up here? Nvm, I’m subscribing to this dude.

That crab to bridge was fire. You breakdance? 😆

The toe shoes caught me off guard 🤣🤣😂😂

I can always learn something new and useful from your videos.

Thanks for the great informative video

Yoooo vibrams for life!! ❤

I’ve been learning how to do a back bend for a few months. I can now do a front walkover and a back bend

I’m so dumbfounded by how good his information is

Oooo so a warm up is to warm up lol

WAS I THE ONLY ONE WHO NOTICED THAT GYATT WHEN HE WAS IN THE SPILTS!?!?

I love his shoe/socks

Yes sir !! I've noticed that this actually works !!! Our bodies are just like a rubber band. When it is cold and stiff it snaps. When it is warm and loose,It ( you muscle and ligamenta will just go to that position. Stay flexy!!

You are actually inspiring me to try to be more flexible. I always had issues with this and found it very painful to even try but seeing your videos I feel like it is possible... Probably will never reach your level of flexibility but at least will try to improve from where I am now :)

True, but heating up the body externally is not the same as heating up the body from the inside out via a warm up first. Otherwise I agree completely.

I used to be able to do that last one when I was 8 years old 😂

Flexibility is Main trait.

'any skill'- *puts leg waaay behind his head, aaand kind of winks

"Focus on that skill" Ill do it if my adhd fixation decides to

I'd love to see some more hip specific videos. That was the most surprising getting older. Side sleep? Wake up with a stiff hip. Need to crawl under something without much space and sit in a strange position? Hips hurt for a day

Bro is real life spiderman

I’ve been trying to get my splits for years… not consistently of course, but I just started the journey again, been stretching for a month. It’s just so frustrating because I consider myself more flexible than the average person but I have never been able to do splits