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Can you sit and stand up without using your hands
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andyhinch
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Can’t even stand up using my hands at the minute, I fucking hate this thread.
Trevor Morley's Tache
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Yes.Can you put your socks on, stood up, balancing on alternate feet?
Or sit down like a FOC!
Can you do it with your eyes closed though?
Fat Chance
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Up on your front foot makes it a beltin exercise ......
Haha, yeah, just make sure it’s not just whistled!
Nowt outlandish about the movements of this, it’s a move that everyone should be able to do fairly easily.
It’s like being able to walk up a flight of stairs without getting out of breath at all - something everyone up to old age should be able to do.
We need to look after ourselves much more than we do as a nation, things like standing up from a chair without using our hands should be something only the very elderly should be able to do.
Kettle Bells are so versatile.
First thing I reach for in the gym (swings are a good starter).
Funnily enough (or not) when I got battered by Covid in 2021 I couldn't so stairs without getting out of breath (and having to stop). This went on for months (and I was running half marathons before I got Covid).
Felt like I was in my 90's.
Best thing that happened to me was getting a hip injury (Cartledge) and being told surgery wasn't an option. Instead I was told to join a gym to strengthen my core and start yoga/pilates.
Before this time my back was so shot (for a good few years). Sometimes hunched over and struggle to walk.
Took up running (against the advice of my GP) and started getting fitter (then the hip thing happened).
But since doing gym core work, yoga and pilates my body's gone back to the vitality and flexibility I had when I was young.
I'll never stop doing it now. It's purely habitual.
BTW - does the OP refer to standing up from sitting on the floor then getting up or when on a chair?
Fat Chance
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Kettlebells are very fashionable, sometimes fashion isnt the best move for your joints...
Olde adage...if you cant sustain it for life ask yourself what youre doing.
Olde adage...if you cant sustain it for life ask yourself what youre doing.
tolmie's hairdoo
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I do the warm-up for my lad's football team, under-15s.
Amazing how most of them can't put their palms flat on the floor and stretch out their hamstrings!
Amazing how most of them can't put their palms flat on the floor and stretch out their hamstrings!
mexico1970
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Walk, Swim and a LOT of stretching will keep you sorted.
I'm only 48 and not a chubster but my knees are so fucked I couldn't get up from a seated position without using my hands, definitely can't get up from a kneeling position without having something nearby to hold onto and haul myself up, I can't even walk up or down stairs facing forwards and instead have to walk side on.
What's done ya knees inI'm only 48 and not a chubster but my knees are so fucked I couldn't get up from a seated position without using my hands, definitely can't get up from a kneeling position without having something nearby to hold onto and haul myself up, I can't even walk up or down stairs facing forwards and instead have to walk side on.