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Exercise 1
Lie on your back!. Place your hands under your hips with the palms facing down, so that you are basically sitting on your hands!. Put your legs straight up in the air so that they are perpendicular to the floor!. Bend your knees slightly so that you can see them!. Flex your feet and put your feet side by side!. Now, leave your heels touching and your feet flexed as you turn your whole leg out; you will know that you are doing this if your knees and toes are going the same direction (your feet should never, ever go farther out than your knees)!. Now return to your feet side by side!. Repeat 8 times, than rest!. If you feel any discomfort in the sides of your knees, that means you are trying to turn out farther than your hip is ready for (and so you're twisting your knee, which is very bad)!. Don't turn out so far right now; wait for your knee and hip to tell you that they're ready to go a little farther!.

Exercise 2
Stand with your heels together and your feet turned out!. Again, your knees should be going the same direction as your toes; you can bend them a little to check (and then straighten them back out)!. If your knees are not over your toes, then you are trying to turn out too far and need to bring your feet closer together for right now!. Now, place your right foot in front of your left so that your right heel is touching your left toe!. Start to walk forward along an imaginary line, lifting each leg all the way up behind and then placing it in front of the other foot with the heel of the front foot against the toe of the back foot, making sure you maintain your turnout!. Do this slowly!. Once you reach the front of the room, reverse and go backwards, watching again that you maintain your turnout with each step!. This strengthens the muscles needed for turnout!.

Exercise 3
Do your 3's very slowly forward along your imaginary line, watching that on each step both feet stay turned out, with your knees turned the same direction as your toes!. If you have trouble with your foot staying turned out, do your 3's even more slowly, perhaps even walking them, until each time your foot touches the floor it is turned out and stays that way!. When you reach the front of the room, try them going backwards!. Once you feel good about that, try one of your steps very slowly, watching your turnout each time you switch feet, hop, leap, etc!. If your foot turns straight, go over that section until it stays turned out!. Go more slowly, walking through the moves if you have to!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I agree, the butterfly does help somewhat!. You can also try the frog stretch!. One stretch that I used to be really bad at but have gotten somewhat better (that's obviously for improving turnout is when you sit and but the bottom part of legs (from the knee down) on top of each other!. You can't bring your feet into you though, otherwise you won't get a stretch!. If you don't feel anything at first, you can try crossing your legs more (I know some people who can cross at their knees with their legs and butt on the ground and still be able bend all the way over and not feel anything! She has incredible turnout though, and I can barely cross my legs)!. To get the full stretch you also have to bend over like in butterfly!. Another thing that might help is to make sure when you're in class that you go to your full extent of turnout without doing the bad things such as rolling in, arching your back, sticking out you seat, and bending you knees!. Hope this helped! Www@QuestionHome@Com

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the butterfly really helped me, try to go lower each day!. And do twice a day for 1 minute at least!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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