Can YOU touch your toes?

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[Baitball Blogger]

1. k

[polly7]

2. Adorable! Thank you for these. nt.

[Lisa D]

3. No

I can't touch my toes

But those cute photos make me feel better

[Ter]

4. Easily

I can also touch the floor with the palm of my hands without bending my legs.

[Curmudgeoness]

5. You're young, aren't you?

I could do that years ago.....but now, I touch my toes only with my legs curled up under me.

[Ter]

10. No, wish I was

41, just flexible.

[Curmudgeoness]

12. That's young.

You are 5-10 years from "not young", depending on lifestyle, genes, etc. But I agree that it is quite an accomplishment to still be that flexible. Really enjoy the next 10 years.

[Honeycombe8]

15. I can, too, Curmudeoness. I'm 58. Wish that would increase my salary. nt

[Curmudgeoness]

24. Well, shit.

I guess I'm just a sloucher then.

[Honeycombe8]

30. Ha! Well, I can't run very long, if that makes you feel better. Each of us has her strength.

I'm sure you can do something that others your age typically can't do very well.

As for me, I've always been a bit flexible. BUT ask me to run longer than 2 minutes, and I'm in agony! I hate it, and it feels awful. I get out of breath & everything all over my body jiggles til it hurts. I hate it!

If you want to be more flexible, yoga helps. Even the beginner series. And even if you can only do a pose partially.

What can you do, Curmudgeon? Come on, now...I'm sure you have a knack at something most of us don't.

[Curmudgeoness]

31. I used to do yoga all the time.

The book I used was by Richard Hittleman and I did it off and on for years. Then all of a sudden, I had severe backaches when I did it, and I could not narrow it down to which position was causing the problems.....but I don't have back problems and never did. Until I started back up on the exercises. Stopped them, pain went away. I only felt guilty for trying to get my mother to do yoga with me, and she kept complaining that her back was getting worse every day with me telling her it is supposed to be good for her back. Aren't we little know-it-all shits when we are young!

I am not being humble when I say that I can't think of anything I can do better than others of my age (one year older than you). But I sure do walk fast. I can't find walking partners (except for when my mother was alive), and everyone at work laughs at how fast I move, even just going down the hall. LOL, such a feat!

[Bake]

7. That's nothin'!!

I can touch the floor with the soles of my feet without bending my arms!

HA!



Bake

[GoCubsGo]

13. Me, too.

If I am diligent with my stretching, I can touch my nose to my knees while I'm at it.

[Iggo]

18. Yep.

Laying flat on my back.

[grasswire]

19. me three

I'm definitely not young, and I can put my palms on the floor without bending my legs. Until a few years ago, I could kick my foot as high as my head, too, Rockette style. And I was never particularly athletic, unless middle school cheerleader counts.

[LiberalEsto]

6. Easily, and I'm 60

Strangely enough, I could never touch my toes as a teenager or in my 20s-30s.

Maybe all the garden work I've done in the past couple of decades limbered me up. I can touch the floor with my knuckles.

[Honeycombe8]

16. I think the muscles are tighter when you're young. :)

At my age, I have wiggle room in my muscles, I think. Plus, I work at stretching. It feels better than aerobics.

[Bake]

8. Okay, the big kitty cats are cute, sure.

But that guy is out of his bloomin' mind. One of those magnificent cats is going to eat him. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But sooner or later, he's lunch.

Bake

[ashling]

14. Maybe that's the way he would prefer to go

Better that gettin shit on by an elephant
the way we've been goin' for the last 30 or 40 years ...

[RedCloud]

20. Somehow we should use this in 2014!

[ashling]

23. I used it to start a thread about a year ago

and it got taken down. I even made a animated version with the guy in an uncle sam costume being gradually covered, but I just deleted it the other day.

[mykpart]

9. Of course I can touch my toes!

Not with my hands, but I can touch the toes on one foot with the other foot.

[myrna minx]

11. I can still touch my toes, but I'd give that up to snuggle with the big kitties!

Awwww.

[BlueMan Votes]

17. for those that claim that they can't touch their toes...

how do you ever manage to put socks on?
or tie your shoes...?

i have spinal arthritis, and i can touch my toes just fine- as long as i'm sitting down.

[Blue_In_AK]

21. Yes,

and I'm 66. I can place my palms on the floor without bending my knees.

[kossp]

22. Touching my toes is not the problem

it's getting back up thats the problem.

[hrmjustin]

28. Welcome to DU!

[kossp]

29. Thank you.

Glad to be here.

[Aerows]

25. With what?

The back of my neck? Yes.

[OriginalGeek]

26. I _can_...but I wouldn't want to

them things is gnarly!

[DaniDubois]

32. This is beautiful! Thank you!

[maria625]

33. lol..

lol..