stretching: touch your toes
What’s the best stretch you can do? If you had one stretch, if you had one thing you could do to protect your lower back and to not get hurt. To protect your neck. One stretch. I know it. You want to know it? All right.
Touch your toes. 89,000 percent of you people out there cannot touch your toes. Hell, half of you can’t see your toes. They’re down there.
All right, the last blog we talked about how not to get hurt. Just common sense moving and picking things up. What’s the best stretch you can do? If you had one stretch, if you had one thing to do to protect your lower back and to not get hurt. To protect your neck. One stretch. I know it. You want to know it? Do yah? Do yah?
All right. Touching your toes. Watch this. Learning to touch your toes is all you’ll ever need to do. It’s all the yoga you’ll every need to know. 89,000 percent of you people out there cannot touch your toes. Hell, half of you can’t see your toes. They’re down there. So what you’re going to do is get next to something you can lean on.
If you have a bad back, if you have bad knees, all jokes aside. If you have limited resources and flexibility, start off like this and just start bending over. That’s the first part of this. Then slowly, keeping your back straight, and your chin out, slowly come down until you get to your toes. It seems so trite. It’s like the stairs, it’s like the push-ups.
Everybody thinks it’s just too simple. But nobody can do this stuff. You know why? It’s effective, but it’s hard to learn. It takes time for you to implement this daily. Get out of bed. Look for your feet. Hey, there they are. Then, go for them everyday.
Now, there’s another quick route you can learn to getting your toes. Squat down a little bit. Touch your toes. Then start to straighten up you back. Lock your knees a little bit. Push up. Man, that’s just a workout in itself. It’s real simple. It’s real easy. It’s the kind of stuff you learn on (*use new website) ronmorrisbalance.com Man, that’s a killer program! If you’re not down with that, you need to get down with this 12 week program. Get over there! Join the site!