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Does anyone have any hip flexor strengthening and flexibility exercises? Thanks!

I've been reading a lot about gymnasts getting stress fractures from doing back walkovers. I've never had back pain due to back walkovers but I'm kinda freaking out now! Can someone explain what the correct way to do a back walkover is in order to prevent stress fractures??

Does anyone have tips for the wrist shift when coming back up from the mill circle? No matter what I tell myself..it's like my hand won't move!!

I don't think that it's my actual tail bone that hurts because it doesn't hurt when I put pressure or sit on it. But that area hurts when I do a standing pike stretch, forward rolls, backward rolls, and tuck jumps. Do you think that it's something serious that I should get checked out, or...

So I have had my standing back handspring for a while now and it's pretty good but I can't seem to connect my round off or anything to it. I have a good round off with a high rebound too, but whenever I try to go for my robhs, I always have to pause for 1+ seconds after my round off to go into...

So I recently got my front hip circle, but my legs and arms are bent. I try to tell myself to keep my legs straight throughout the skill but for some reason they always bend or I just flop off the bar and don't make it all the way around. Does anyone have any tips or drills?? Thanks!

Whenever I lift my arms up to solute, swing for back handspring,..ect, by shoulders make a popping/ clicking sound. There's no pain associated with it..but I was wondering if this is something that I need to worry about?

I tend to squat way too low in my bhs. I've been trying to correct it for a while but when I go for it I still am bending too low. I think it may be a fear issue because I feel like I'm closer to the ground when I bend low. Also my coach won't spot me, she just tells me to just go for it and...

Is it weird that my legs get kind of numb/ tingly after staying in the splits for 1+ minutes? Has anyone else experienced this? I mean it's not so numb that I can't feel the pain (I wish! lol) but I didn't use to have this...:confused:

I was wondering how long the pre-teams at your gym train per week. My gym does 6-7 hours and I feel like that's a lot for pre-team....

I'm working on my press handstand and I'm wondering what would be some good conditioning?