Touch your toes
While I presume most of you are wonderfully supple and flexible, I am not. Even when I was much younger, I could not touch my toes - and that has not changed over the intervening years.
However, I did come across a little trick that can get you closer to your toes, if not actually touching them.
Bend over to try and touch your toes. Don't strain yourself. While bent over, take a deep breath. As you exhale you will notice that your finger tips get closer to your toes. You can repeat this exercise a few times and see if you can reach your toes.
It takes me four sets of inhale / exhale to get me to touch my toes. I can feel the muscles at the back of my legs straining, but no pain.
However, I did come across a little trick that can get you closer to your toes, if not actually touching them.
Bend over to try and touch your toes. Don't strain yourself. While bent over, take a deep breath. As you exhale you will notice that your finger tips get closer to your toes. You can repeat this exercise a few times and see if you can reach your toes.
It takes me four sets of inhale / exhale to get me to touch my toes. I can feel the muscles at the back of my legs straining, but no pain.
WARNING: use your common sense, don't hurt yourself. If you are in pain, stop. If you have difficulty breathing, stop. If you are faint or dizzy, stop. If you lack common sense, then definitely don't start. If you are prone to be litigatious, don't even think about starting, just move onto the next blog.
Comments
freckled-one: good for you!
barbara: I am pretty tall too (somewhere between 6' and 6'1" - notwithstanding friends who claim I am over 6'2"). But, like I asked Mattias, did you get closer?
There is a reason why this works, but I have forgotten it. It was in a book of science experiments I read once.
(Just what my husband, a chiropractor, thought might be the reason.)
For I didn't exercise for years, yet I could still touch my toes with my palms esily without any special breathing excercise. Maybe my hands are longer?
I guess Richard's breathing exercise method should work for anyone, unless there are physical hinderances.
Just my thoughts. :)
bee: I am so jealous, you can put your palms onthe floor. Aack! I am way too stiff.
kl: Hey, I don't want to get into any trouble.
My brother explained to me (he works as an insurance claims adjuster) that liability is a pretty much no win situation. If you have something that is potentially dangerous (say a speed bump) and you fail to warn people then you are liable because you provided something dangerous and did not wanr people about it. However, if you do warn people abou tit, then you are still liable because you knew there was a danger.