Nose to my knees

January 14th, 2008 at 8:30 am (General Cardio) · Digg! this story! Digg! this story.

My bod’s got some aches from yesterday’s run so I did a 30 minute warm up - and stretched for another 30!  Stretching is such a luxury!   One of the ‘wish list’ items for my fitness lifetime is to be able to touch my nose to my knees.   Ha ha haaaaaaa!   Currently my nose is about 3 feet away.   

A girl can dream……………….

Workout:

  • Type: General Cardio
  • Date: 01/14/2008
  • Time: 08:30:42
  • Total Time: 00:30:00.00

4 Comments

  1. Phil said,

    January 14th, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    Okay - I just checked, and I can do it. . . barely!

  2. gardenmentor said,

    January 15th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    Nose to knees is hard! Do you ever do yoga? I’ve learned a couple of tips in my practice that are getting me closer all the time. Maybe these will help…

    Raise hands over head and stretch from your waist and ribs to get your upper body stretched long before you bend forward. A lot of the forward bend to get fingers to floor and nose to knees is in the waist, ribs, shoulders..aka upper body. If you’re anything like me, you get so wrapped up in the hamstrings that you forget to let your upper body do some of the work.

    Start your forward bend with your knees bent. Wrap your arms around your knees and bend your knees enough to lay your ribs on your thighs. Use this pose to open your hamstrings from your sitting bones and relax into the forward bend. Work on straightening your legs with your arms wrapped and your ribs on your thighs. Yes, this is hard and may take months! But, your upper body will learn to do some of the forward bend (and heck, you may have your nose on your knees…even if they’re bent!)

    When you do forward bend, if you can’t touch the floor, grab your arms at the elbow when you are bent forward. Work on straightening your legs with your chest forward and out. This will help get your upperbody to do some of the work as well.

    These are exercises I do all the time to work on my forward bends. Rarely I have a day when my ribs are flat against my thighs, my feet are together, my legs are straight and my hands are on the ground. Usually, I have a slight bend in my knees (to keep opening those hamstrings), but I focus on the ribs on the thighs all the time!

    Oh, and other things that help. Plough pose and seated forward bend. I find these much more accessible. Remember, you work yourself into forward bends, breathing into them and letting go. You should always end a forward bend further into it than you began. And lengthen the upper body!

    I’m only a student of yoga, but I hope my lesson practice helps you too!

  3. seashell said,

    January 15th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

    Yeah! I’ll give this a try!! THANKS!!! ~Shell

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