Can you get off the floor without using your hands?

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My 23 year old son can do it using only 1 leg. He just rises and ends up on 1 foot! I do not brag about him much but I was impressed.

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This doesn't take into account a lot of things. Just walk, exercise lightly, eat right. And relax.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been doing home health care for the last near decade and have seen the effects of a lifetime of limited mobility on the human body. I mean just people whose lives as adults are an endless cycle of sitting at work, sitting at home, sitting in the car, etc. with just short periods of walking and maybe light housework. The core strength starts to plummet along with the steady decline of muscle mass beginning in our 30s if we live this way and most of us do. Even if you’re doing the treadmill and some weight lifting at the gym that won’t keep you flexible. People forget about or never realize how critical this is until they’ve lost it. Something as simple as having the flexibility to wipe your own behind in your 80s and beyond is rooted in keeping core strength and flexibility intact as you age.

I broke an ankle and a wrist over the last few years and have suffered some neck issues from spinal stenosis. I’ve been to PT several times to work on rehabbing those injuries and learning how to move my body to minimize the effects of the stenosis. I’ve seen a number of elders in PT to work on limited mobility not adjacent to injury. It’s made me realize that I need to get very serious now at 52 to recover from the decades I’ve spent sitting at desks and coming home exhausted to sit on the sofa. I’m getting back into yoga and ballet because I want to be able to wipe my own poop hatch as long as possible.

This is very true. I'm 52, and I spent years sitting, whether at work, or 2 hour commutes 5x/week. And I had two large babies that ripped up my stomach muscles.

I have always been flexible, but a couple of years ago, I couldn't do this even though I know I could when I was younger.

I spent the last year doing stretching, including a little bit of core strengthening, in part because of issues with sciatic/piriformis syndrome (also due to sitting too much). I also lost some weight, not that I was all that heavy.

All of that combined, I can now do this, pretty easily. And I can squat and get up easily, too.

I stopped working for about 1.5 years about 10 yrs ago, and I was so much healthier. Working is bad for me. I'm hoping to quite in a few years.

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Yes, 42

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Yes, 50 - and I don't take it for granted

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Anonymous wrote:This doesn't take into account a lot of things. Just walk, exercise lightly, eat right. And relax.

It's a test of functional mobility. It takes into account your functional mobility. If you can't do it and don't view it as a problem, that's fine. But it's actually a very good test of what it is supposed to measure.

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I can do it easily with my right foot crossed in front of left. BUT, if I switch it and put left in front, it is so much harder. That took a few good attempts but I could do it, just not as easily.

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Yes - just rotate onto knees and stand up.

Anyone who can’t needs to start lifting.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes - just rotate onto knees and stand up.

Anyone who can’t needs to start lifting.

No no- you can’t use knees-just straight up from floor no knees and no hands

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No one (that I saw) pointed out that it's a score. 5 points going down, 5 points coming back up. Lose a point for every "forbidden" body part you use (hands, knees). lose a half point for losing balance.

I can get down, and need one knee to get back up. So I think I'm a 9/10, which still predicts decent longevity. My knees and ankles are achy from a hike a few days ago so I'm hoping that I'll be able to get up unaided when they feel better... but my knees are always a little achy so I'm not so sure.

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Anonymous wrote:This doesn't take into account a lot of things. Just walk, exercise lightly, eat right. And relax.

It's a test of functional mobility. It takes into account your functional mobility. If you can't do it and don't view it as a problem, that's fine. But it's actually a very good test of what it is supposed to measure.

What does it mean if you have never been able to do it, even as a child?

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I just stood in the living room for a while and thought about how I would attempt this. I am hypermobile and can't imagine putting the stress on my ankles from rolling over them to accomplish this. I did look at a couple of videos and saw that some people put their feet out to the side and knees together and then shift body weight forward to accomplish this, which I can at least imagine once having been able to do. But intentionally putting all your weight on the outside of in-turned ankles just gives me the heebeejeebees.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn't take into account a lot of things. Just walk, exercise lightly, eat right. And relax.

It's a test of functional mobility. It takes into account your functional mobility. If you can't do it and don't view it as a problem, that's fine. But it's actually a very good test of what it is supposed to measure.

What does it mean if you have never been able to do it, even as a child?

you probably have terrible balance.

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Anonymous wrote:How in the world do you do this without involving knees?

When I first heard abt this I didn’t realize you couldn’t use a knee do I just tried again. I could do it but it wasn’t very elegant-I think it’s bc I’ve been doing deep (butt to floor almost) body weight squats and I just sort of got up into that position snd stood up. I’m also very flexible which I’m sure helps.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This doesn't take into account a lot of things. Just walk, exercise lightly, eat right. And relax.

It's a test of functional mobility. It takes into account your functional mobility. If you can't do it and don't view it as a problem, that's fine. But it's actually a very good test of what it is supposed to measure.

What does it mean if you have never been able to do it, even as a child?

you probably have terrible balance.

I do