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My advice would be to be patient! Splits can take awhile. For example I had fairly good flexibility from years of ballet, but once I got to college and wasn't stretching and dancing as much I lost both splits (a few in. above ground). In July I started dancing a lot and going to adult gymnastics classes, but it took till October for me to make up for those few inches on my right and I still didn't have a perfect left split yet that's comfortable. If your a foot above the ground it may take many months! I would suggest stretching everyday if possible and always doing a small warm up before you stretch! Good luck!
You should be able to achieve your splits but it will be a lot of hard work. You need to build up your stretching too, if you jump into it too quickly and don't allow your body time to get used to serious stretching then you splits will get worse instead of better.
You need to do a serious stretch at home once every two days to start off with. When you stop being sore on the second day move it up to every day. Once you improve from that make it twice a day.
Make sure you do a proper warm up before you stretch. Spend 5-10 minutes running on the spot, jumping, skipping or bouncing on a trampoline before you start your stretches. If your muscles are not properly warmed up the stretching will be useless and you will risk injury which will make gaining flexibility even harder.
Once you are warmed up do a full head to toe general stretch of all body parts to loosen up for bigger stretches.
Once you have done this move onto dynamic stretches. 20 kicks on each leg each way (front, side and back).
After this go into more serious stretches such as pike stretch, straddle stretches and split prep stretches, hold each 30 seconds to a minute.
Then do your splits, hold them at least a minute. The first 30 seconds of the stretch is just your body relaxing into the point which you can already do, you don't gain any flexibility in the first 30 seconds. 1 minute is the minimum and 2 minutes is better. Once you have done all your splits repeat all your splits again.
Its a good idea to do it while watching TV or a movie otherwise it is hard to dedicate so much time to it.
Relax while you are stretching and breath deeply.
Drink lots of water and eat lots of fresh fruit to increase your muscle repair time and speed up the flexibility process.