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Stop Trying to Touch Your Toes! (NOT GOOD)

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m going to show you why you not only want to stop trying to touch your toes and instead do the move I show you as an alternative. All you have to do is look at the implications this position has for hiding postural flows and imbalances and you will see quickly why it-s something you will not want to keep doing to help you feel more flexible. It starts by letting you test yourself. Can you actually touch your toes? Many people will be able to, but many more will not. Even if you cannot, I can make it much easier for you if I tell you to be sure you roll your butt underneath you before you attempt to bend down. This will place a lot less of a stretch on the hamstrings making it easier for you to fold. The issue with this modification is that many people do this naturally anyway in order to cheat their way to their toes. This really isn-t giving them any valuable information regarding their own flexibility and the health of their posture. In fact, it-s doing them a disservice by convincing them that they are more flexible than they really are and therefore allowing them to shrug off doing anything about it. When you slump forward to touch your toes you are actually initiating much of the range of motion through the thoracic spine. You are flexing forward into severe kyphosis in order to achieve the hands to the toes position. This is only reinforcing a bad tendency for having slumped posture. It gets worse from there however. The low back is forced to round and the pelvis is thrown into a posterior tilt. This is the exact position that someone who is aged and has lost all semblance of good posture will adopt. Even more, the shoulders themselves slump forward and are lacking any kind of scapular stability. All of these issues combined are a recipe for disaster when it comes to proper posture and the insinuation that being able to get into this position of hands to toes is in some way a good thing is misleading to say the least. Instead of being obsessed with whether you can still touch your toes I-m asking you to try something else. Stand about 3 foot lengths away from the wall and reach forward with one leg until you can prop your toes up against the wall. Immediately, you should feel a stretch on the calf of that leg and likely already the hamstring. From here, reach your hands up against the wall slightly over shoulder height and place your palms flat against the wall. Simultaneously walk your hands up the wall while leaning your chest in. The goal should be to ultimately touch your chest against the wall without any care towards whether you are bending down or forward. You are simply supposed to reach your chest forward. If you cannot get there, don-t worry, this is normal. You will however want to work towards getting your chest closer over time. Hold this position for 30 seconds to a minute and don-t forget to repeat on the other leg to balance out both hamstrings. The benefit to this position rather than the slumped forward posture that bending over to touch your toes places you in is the fact that you can maintain thoracic extension while at the same time keeping your pelvis in an anterior tilt. This position of the pelvis is going to place a higher demand on the hamstrings, however in doing so, will reveal any tightnesses in them that you will want to address rather than hiding them by simply allowing your pelvis to roll back during the stretch. This is just one example where old school methods of measuring and working on your flexibility are not helping you. If you really want to get to the bottom of your postural flaws and figure out ways to improve your forward head, rounded shoulders and slumped posture be sure to
Date: 2022-04-22

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Comments and reviews: 10

Gaudencio
I've been doing such since I was 15, and now that I am 66, I still do it, because no one ever told me that it's bad. I still do high kicks as a Korean Tang Soo Do practitioner. my profile picture attests to that. I remember some people saying that if you can do such exercise, your flexibility is like that of a 25-year old. It boosts my morale & I always do it before my kicking exercises. However, I also have other exercises similar to what you recommend. Thanks for your perspective.
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Likourgos
This Me, He trend is getting old guys. Just take a look at the comments. Most are not even funny. Everytime I see one I cringe because of the effort they hide trying to direct attention on their comments. Not cool guys. When you let go off of Me and be more interested in You, you will definitely see the world in a better & more mature way. One you won't ever abandon to return to what you were.
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Yoga
It is not bad, depends on the focus of your stretch. anterior tilt (flat back) is when the focus is back of your legs, posterior tilt (round back) is when the focus of strech are the muscles at your back. Yoga and pilates teachers are having heart attack watching this video. -
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Kayla
If you're having to put your thoracic spine into -severe kyphosis, - then that's indicative of limited hamstring flexibility, which is one of the leading causes of low back pain. Stop trying to be different. Read ACSM GETP 10th addition. It's a standardized test.
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Leo
Crazy! I've been doing this stretch since High School.
We called it, -Up Against The Wall-
---Put Your Hands Behind Your Back-- LOL-
No Just -Up Against The Wall-
Great explanation, learning lots from your videos.
Thanks.
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Hippie
I tried and found that, my hamstrings are not that tight but instant my back is very tight. Is it possible that my lower back is tight not hamstring so I can-t touch my toes? Because that mean whole life were screwed up.
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Cimarron
Someone needs to send this video to all the Yoda instructors in the world. Even doctors say not to do this. And this is liek the main thing yoga instructors have you do and there are so many other great back stretches
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W4rfire
So the only reason we shouldnt do this is because others could do it wrong and when doing it wrong its dysfunctional - idea: Just dont do it wrong with a rounded back but right instead? (uhh that rhymes) Dont get that
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Wildcard
I can only touch my knees even in the wrong position. Always told myself it-s cause of the growth spurt in my legs when I was young giving me longer legs but short abdomen, like Conan O-Brian, but I-m only 5-10-.
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ChainTraders
I reach down trying to keep my back straight and shoulder back. I'm far away from reaching my toes but i find the burn is much better, almost like sitting with back straight reaching for toes. Is that bad too?
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