The touch your toes challenge
This is pathetic.
Today I pulled a semi-early riser and did a solid hour of stretching and push-ups to start the day. Apart from being quite painful and requiring a late afternoon nap, the plan worked quite well. The thing is, I could only manage a hamstring stretch of -18cm. You can test yourself using these instructions - basically tape a ruler to a milk crate, sit on the floor and lean forward.
Meanwhile, Zoe can nearly put her elbows on the floor without a warm up of any sort.
August 7th, 2007 at 11:53 pm
Jesus! I haven’t even started trying. This is gonna be hard
August 8th, 2007 at 9:54 am
get bending, Roddi!
August 8th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Zoe, i have noted again that i should not go to pilates with you. Makes me look like a log.
August 8th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Just weighing in here as a running who needs to try and keep flexi.
I used to be inflexable too, the secret it consistantly stretching at every opportunity it’s not about strength, you can’t muscle through it (I’m looking at you Tom… I can imagine you going NNNNNNNNN until you pop something remember that stem I busted, that could happen to your hammy)
Don’t ‘bounce’ move into the stretch and hold it putting gentle pressure on the tendors, and go for a walk or ride or something before you start stretching or even have a hot bath and apply some decorub or similar.
August 9th, 2007 at 10:10 am
in northern news I am up to 805 push ups, I think I am going to up the ante a little and see that I can’t sneak a few extras in each day… I’m bumping my sets up to 40 then try for another 40 then 20’s to the end
August 11th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
If I want to touch my toes I bend my knees. My bike also has a motor.
August 14th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Got it down to -12 last night, after a nice bike ride over the bridge and 100 clicks over the weekend.
August 15th, 2007 at 10:26 am
last night I was 110 push ups ahead of plan with a cumulative total of 1510. there was one rest day in there (even the guys in le tour need them) and if I keep to my 150 or 200 days for the last couple I am going to totally dominate my paltry claim for 3000 push ups! come on!!
August 30th, 2007 at 8:23 am
Don’t worry. Women are naturally more flexible than Men. It’s got nothing to do with beer-guts or anything….