By Gosh, I'm flexible!

[Dustbuffalo]

I was doing my morning stretches today and I realized that I can get my nose about 4 inches from my knees! It used to be that I couldn't touch my toes. I actually have to lift my hands off the ground now so I can stretch further! Yeehaw!

[Karate Momma]

Great Job!!!!!!

[Bertiebugg]

That is so exciting!!! I personally can't wait to be flexible again!

[dedeanewme]

That is so cool. How did you do it? DO you do yoga or something? I found out the other day that I can reach my hands to the back of my toes during water aerobics,but I cant do it out of the water.lol


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de

[crewchief]

Way to go! That's such a cool feeling, isn't it? I did a sit up yesterday. I know that sounds silly, but I had been laying in the floor, just stretching my back and talking to DH and I just sat up. Boom. No struggling, no grunting (well, ok, maybe a little. ;) ) But I did it, without much trouble! And my feet even stayed on the floor rather than flying up in the air. Cool.

Congrats!!

[Dustbuffalo]

Originally posted by dedeanewme
That is so cool. How did you do it? DO you do yoga or something? I found out the other day that I can reach my hands to the back of my toes during water aerobics,but I cant do it out of the water.lol


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de

When I was traveling for work about a year and a half ago, we were in Seattle and I came across this littel place called the Yoga Cafe (http://www.holistictao.com/) (it's the Shorline location on Ballinger). I asked about a book I could use while I was on the road to excercise. They gave me this book called Dahnhak: The Way to Perfect Health by Seung-Heun Lee. It's theory is that you're essentially as healthy as your intestines are and it has simple escercises to help strengthen and cleanse them.

There's a section of great warm up type stretches I do every morning. They feel so good to do and it energizes me right up for the day. There's also a really simple abs excercise that I do where you just suck 'em in tight and let 'em go. You don't need to hold them for any length of time. Do that 500 times a day. It's not that hard. It's not too time consuming either. You can increase it as it gets easier.

Here's the link if you wanna check into it.
http://www.healingsociety.org/methods/dahnhak.html

Here's the book:
http://www.healingplaza.com/Books/B_DahnHak.htm

There's no chapters in Ohio, and I guess that's good since I don't have the money to join right now, but if there was, I'd be there in a heart beat. They were so great. For $500, I got 3 "physical therepy" sessions (work was a pain in the back if you catch my drift), and 3 classes. One of the physical therapy sessions did more for me than the 6 weeks of therapy I went through after my car accident. The actual package they offered was$1000 for 2 weeks. The physical therapy sessions MWF, and then classes in between if I remember correctly. These guys really left an impression on me.

Dusty

[dedeanewme]

Thanks so much. I am going to look at those links and try the ab thing. I have a yoga dvd and after I read your initial post, i thought about digging it out. Yoga does put your mind at ease.


thanks again
hugs
de

[cheryl79]

Congrats De!!!:)