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June 25, 2025 28 mins

You think stretching 45 minutes a day, six days a week, is your ticket to a perfect front split? THINK AGAIN. You might be sabotaging your own progress with outdated advice. We infiltrated the most heated debates on Avonetics to uncover the shocking truth about rest days, and what we found will change how you train forever. On one side, hardened flexibility coaches argue that rest days are NON-NEGOTIABLE, especially for beginners. They compare intense stretching to strength training, insisting your central nervous system is BEGGING for recovery to rebuild and get stronger. Pushing it is a fast track to injury. But on the other side of the mat, elite contortionists and advanced users fire back with a mind-blowing claim: for them, rest days are irrelevant. Once you achieve peak flexibility, they say a split isn't a workout—it's a resting position. They believe daily practice is the only way to maintain and deepen that insane flexibility. The entire Avonetics community is divided, with personal experiences and radical opinions flying. Is soreness a green light to push harder or a red flag to stop? The answer is intensely personal, and following the wrong advice could set you back months. Before you do another stretch, you need to see this. For advertising opportunities, visit Avonetics.com.

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