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  • Without bending your knees!

    This occurred to me as I bent to pick up a card I had dropped between my feet:

    How many of us can, wihout bending our knees, pick up something - for our purposes here say... a dime, a 10 cent piece, or anything similar, which has fallen between our feet?

    This is without bending the knees, without crouching or kneeling down, without mechanical aids....

    How many of us can still pick up that dime?

    It's a blind study, no one is identified, it's just a statistical analysis.
    Be honest - there's no benefit in bragging.
    23
    What object? I can't see my feet!
    4.35%
    1
    Oh, that thing? Too far away!
    8.70%
    2
    I can touch it (straining) - (ugh) sometimes....
    17.39%
    4
    I can grab it sometimes, but it's hard to pick up.
    4.35%
    1
    It's a stretch, but I can always get it and pick it up.
    30.43%
    7
    No sweat, piece of cake, I got it.
    17.39%
    4
    Not only can I get it, but I can put both palms on the floor as well!
    13.04%
    3
    Silly humans, aren't you sextuple-jointed as well?
    4.35%
    1

    The poll is expired.

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    Oh Chu. If only you could have seen what I've seen, with your eyes.

  • #2
    Re: Without bending your knees!

    Not me. God gave me knees for a reason, to pick up dimes fallen between my feet.
    Life is what you make of it...so please read the instructions carefully.

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    • #3
      Re: Without bending your knees!

      Silly humans and genetic anomalies...gotta love em.

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      • #4
        Re: Without bending your knees!

        I marked the wrong one... can't change my vote

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        • #5
          Re: Without bending your knees!

          Sadly, the years and all my physical issues have greatly reduced my level of flexibility. 9 years ago I could do this bend over and come back up breathing
          technique for Pilates and that's a goner! Every other month with my check up with the Physiatrist my range of motion gets worse! He measures it with this device to see if and how far the "if" I can bend over is/isnt!

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          • #6
            Re: Without bending your knees!

            I think a more useful flexibility is being able to sit on your haunches with feet flat on the floor.
            May I always be found beneath your contempt.

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            • #7
              Re: Without bending your knees!

              I can pick things up but it has to be quick, I can't stay down there for long. Although usually when I have to pick things up off the ground I usually use my toes.
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              • #8
                Re: Without bending your knees!

                I think knees are there for a reason. Anything else is simply non-human
                Life is what you make of it...so please read the instructions carefully.

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                • #9
                  Re: Without bending your knees!

                  I'll admit picking up dog poop bags can be challenging! if I'm feeling o.k. I
                  try the golf ball pick up move with one leg extended in the air and bending
                  down with other knee partially bent. Like Sophielynette I'll use my toes in the house!

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                  • #10
                    Re: Without bending your knees!

                    Nope. Which is why I started attending a yoga class last month, to regain the flexibility I had in my t'ai chi / hula days.

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                    • #11
                      Re: Without bending your knees!

                      Not only can I get it, I can put both palms on the floor as well. (after I hang there and stretch for a minute)
                      ~ This is the strangest life I've ever known ~

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                      • #12
                        Re: Without bending your knees!

                        Originally posted by Leo Lakio View Post
                        Nope. Which is why I started attending a yoga class last month, to regain the flexibility I had in my t'ai chi / hula days.
                        I did pilates for 8 years and that was good for this but now I just swim 800 meters a day and walk 2 miles daily as well and more importantly those
                        two activities help my pain level which always at some level everyday
                        just what level it is varies!

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                        • #13
                          Re: Without bending your knees!

                          I can get my fingers down to the middle knuckle flat on the floor. That's good progress for me! And ahhh...stretching feels so good!

                          Can't think of anything creative this time

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                          • #14
                            Re: Without bending your knees!

                            Interesting range of responses.

                            I've managed to keep my hamstrings stretched (touch my toes) but my quadriceps are impossibly shrunken. I'm jealous of salmoned! I used to be able to do that when I was younger. Now I can't get my heels anywhere near my gluteus in any way. Much more useful stretch, I agree!

                            Ah, youth is wasted on the young! Can anyone still do splits?

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                            Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken!
                            ~ ~
                            Kaʻonohiʻulaʻokahōkūmiomioʻehiku
                            Spreading the virus of ALOHA.
                            Oh Chu. If only you could have seen what I've seen, with your eyes.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Without bending your knees!

                              Originally posted by Sharilyn View Post
                              I marked the wrong one... can't change my vote
                              You can tell us... we won't breathe a word!
                              Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Taken!
                              ~ ~
                              Kaʻonohiʻulaʻokahōkūmiomioʻehiku
                              Spreading the virus of ALOHA.
                              Oh Chu. If only you could have seen what I've seen, with your eyes.

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