You aren't fit if you can't even touch your toes.

>>36832057

I thought you were supposed to do this with your back straight -- is it even possible?

Nigga the palms of my hands can touch the floor, yet I'm out of shape as fuck.

Flexibility has a lot to do with genetics.

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>>36832057
you sure?

>>36832057
TIL people with long arms and short legs are inherently fitter than people with long legs and short arms.

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>>36832078

>>36832075
are you retarded?

the longer you can go down with your body the more flexible you are

only peopel with mutant long arms can touch with straight back and nothing to do with being flexible

>>36832076
Flexibility is literally the one part of fitness that has nothing to do with genetics.

>>36832075
This. I have the hardest time. I'm sure I'm not flexible in /fit/ standards, but is it even possible for man to do this at all?

>>36832075
Unless your arms are freakishly long it's not possible.
The toe touch has three areas that are being stretched.
The l1-l4 section of your back(lower back), the upper portion of your arms and shoulders, and the hamstrings and groin.
If you were to keep your back straight due to arm length, it would only stretch your hamstrings.

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>>36832057
>you aren't fit if you cant place your palms on the floor
fixed that for you.

Also, anybody who can't do pic related is just baiting for a torn up shoulder joint.

>>36832164
I can do this


Can't touch toes : (

>>36832150
Then how the fuck am I able to do all kinds of shit I shouldn't be able to do, while my friend barely gets past his ankles yet he's pretty fit.

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Daily reminder if you can't squat balls to ground you're inflexible

>>36832139
It's 100% about hamstring flexibility

>>36832057
Does that count? It doesn't look like his knees are locked.

>>36832164
Is that supposed to be hard?
I've got some shoulder concerns and an injury, but that was effortless.

>>36832057
Flexibility can be trained, length of back, arms and legs however can not be trained

Touching your toes is a combination of flexibility and length of arms, back and legs. Therefore, the touching of the toes doe not necessarily mean someone is fit or not.

It just means you can touch your toes.

Which I can do easily by the way.

>>36832229
>superwide stance

Lel

>>36832057

Forward bends can seriously impinge the anterior lumbar vertebral discs, faggots.

I used to think this shit was helping me until I read an anatomy book by some french person who worked with ballet dancers and was emphatic, do NOT do forward bends, they are absolutely useless and dangerous

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEP64jao-S1/?hl=en
>tfw even Rich is more flexible than you

>>36832213
More muscle= less flexibility

>>36832057
I used to be able to but then I slipped a disc.

>>36832289
Little bit past shoulder width m8, I just have to rotate my feet outwards a fair bit, otherwise my knees feel like they'll explode

>>36832318
Not really, unless you get ridiculously big. You only lose flexibility if you get HUEG and never do any stretching or flexibility training.

>>36832358
>>36832318
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSf1BFRcdxo

>>36832373
>CRAZY FLEXIBILITY
literally every average person can do these.

>>36832427
No they can't. People in the gym aren't "average" people. And the majority of people in the gym can't do this either.

>>36832057
You aren't 6'4" if you can.

>>36832427
>AT 295LBS
The guy is less than 10% bf at pretty much 1.5 times the weight of the average fatass poster on /fit/.

Just checked. Can do it easily, and Ive never done any flexibility work or stretching.

I can't even see my toes

>>36832898
:')))

Guy in op is doing it wrong. You should pivot from the hip with a straight back for maximum hamstring stretch (which is the point of a forward bend). I can put my palms on the ground with some slack in my elbows, but I can barely go halfway with proper form. There's very little to be gained by stressing the spine by rounding in a forward bend, it's mostly "cheating".

>>36832272
it's a wrist/forearm stretch if you make an obtuse angle with your arms and body in that position

>>36832057
Just crouch down and touch your toes lmao

with some straining and momentum i lightly touched my toe with my elbow

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>>36833081
Depends on deep a stretch you want. Pretty early on you'll notice it's anatomically impossible to sink further down without bending your back, to the point that pic related is as much a lower back stretch as it is a hamstring stretch. It's not something you should sit in long, though, due to the pressure put on the back as mentioned.

>>36832464
6'5 here and can touch my toes
what's your excuse?

>>36833081
The point is that some people can't do it even with cheating

>>36832075
yes it is possible. the problem is that most people spend all day sitting with shortened hamstrings and barely do any serious mobility work, then wonder why they are inflexible.

>>36832164
>tfw can't do this because I can't kneel because of scar tissue from surgeries on my knees

why live when i can't be on my knees, /fit/?

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>>36832078

I've always been ridiculously flexible. It helps me put my legs behind my head while my bro fucks me in the ass hard. I can suck my own dick too

>>36833081
its not cheating if you are using it as a low back stretch.

i use contract/relax stretches for my hammies, then do some L-compression work for dat active flexibility, then i do toe touches as a lower back stretch and there ain't nothing wrong with that.

its effectiveness as a hammy stretch is limited by the inability of the body to fight the hamstrings in order to keep the back from rounding.

Many ignorant retards, posting.

Flexibility can be learned and improved. However, there are limitations to some people. I do heavy yoga and pilates. Yet, I can sometimes not do a forward bend unless I warm-up to it. Finally, I hired a Phd educator and trainer. She told me the truth, for my impacted back. Yes, I can eventually bend straight leg and get a degree behind my mid-ankle, though not often.

Practice and practice Yet, clearly some people, usually men have limitations with this stance.

>>36834806
yoga and pilates is fairly mediocre in terms of flexibilty. its the brosplit without legs of mobility work.

look into waiting out the tension, contract/relax and other advanced techniques

>>36834842
Thanks. The trainer, a great woman, actually taught me some degree of the relax/contract. I have yet to meet many men that can do a full pilates work-out, unless their dancers. Also, yoga has greatly assisted but, some asanas I don't do. I have a whacked L4/L5/S1.
Paz

>>36832075
hinge at the hips, bb

>>36834714
That man can suck his own dick

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>>36832075

>>36834806
Actually, in contortion, men are traditionally front benders, while women are back benders.

>>36832464
I'm 6'3" with somewhat short arms(proportionally speaking) and I can touch my toes as long as I do stretches regularly.

>>36832150
Is that why females are more flexible than males ? Not genetics?

>>36838348
Muscle mass tends to work against you when it comes to flexibility, and males tend to have more baseline muscle.

>tfw so out of shape I can't do a pushup but can touch my toes

I'M FIT GUYS

>>36832075
>>36832139
no, you arent supposed to bend your back like OPs pic, your back is supposed to stay straight. its 100% possible to do, if you cant do it then you need to work on your flexibility more.

>>36832057
>touch your toes
TOP KEK when warmed up I can put the heels of my hands flat on the floor in front of my toes and I'm 6'4" U MAD???

>>36834731

Can't live without sucking dicks?

>>36832057
Now try touching the floor with the palms of your hands while keeping your legs straight.

>>36832057
I've ran every other day for a year. Stretched every morning. Cannot touch my toes.

>>36832373
Yes, but can Ricardo Pinata touch his toes?

how the fuck do you increase flexibility /fit/? I've been in great shape my whole life but can't get flexible. I've tried almost everything. Send help pls

>>36832057
Palms flat on the ground with finger tips touching my heels and chest touching my knees. Get on my level

>>36832229
I can feel my knees hurting

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Fit, fit.
tell me, fit. Y are you so fit ?

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>>36832057
show un your wounds, /fit/

>>36832057
I've always thought this was bullshit

My arms are long as fuck so I can put my entire palms on the ground no problems. Not even flexible at all

>>36832075
I've been on a stretching routine for a few weeks now. Started out being able to touch my toes, but my back was very rounded, and now I can do it with a flat back. It just takes flexibility.

>>36832057
Stand aside... toe touching master race coming through.

>>36832057
manlet detected

>>36839218
I'm very unflexible, I've been doing yoga once or twice a week for the last 6 months or so and although progress is slow I'm definitely seeing improvements in my flexibility. I'm now at the point where I can just about touch my toes after warming up which I've never been able to do before.

>>36835805
Fucking retard. Doing it with feet that wide is not the fucking same you fuckwit

>>36839748
Inflexible

>>36838714
those are two different stretches. good luck stretching you erector spinae with your back straight.
>>36832057 (OP)
>hurr durr I can do this thing that some of you can't and therefore I'm better than
fuck off you insecure shit.

>>36839245
Barely feel it, it's more of a hip stretch than anything

>>36840050
*your erector

>>36832464
My dad is 6'4", super fucking fat and touches his toes easily. He can put both palms on the ground while I struggle to touch my ankles. Manlets have it easy man.

>>36839311
i COULD GO FOR SAOME SQUID RIGHT ABOUT NOW

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I slipped 2 of my discs in my spine, and as a result my left leg:

a. locks up past a certain point bending down
b. has limited mobility and full on sciatica
c. is smaller and weaker than the right

>mfw i deadlift 230kg and see my left leg going full wobbul mode

>>36832057
>>36832057
should knees be locked for it to count.
I was finally able to touch my knees after years of wooden lankletism but my knees were a bit flexed, since locking them is uncomfortable

I'm not even /fit/ and I can touch my toes.

>>36839771
Why did you call me retard?

How old are you?

>>36835800
I managed to do it once. Felt more like i was sucking a dick than getting mine sucked desu.

>>36840487
how'd you slip them?

>>36840714
not the same guy.
you posted the stretching hottie to prove that it is possible with a straight back
but she is doing a completely different exercise.
He didn't just tell you that you are mistaken because this or that because this is the internet and that is the only to hold a conversation with people you will never talk to or see again.
age has very little correlation with internet retardation.

>>36840753
doing deadlifts

>>36832057
mfw you broke your spine and can't reach the ankles with straight legs

>>36840986
wtf