I can put both legs behind my head, too.
[sub]oops, was that out loud…?[/sub]
Lots of Ballet and dance gives you the flexibility to get in lots of strange positions. Palms on the ground is just the begining… There much more intersting positions that I can bend myself into. Flexibility can be lots of fun.
Yup. Palms flat on floor in front or beside feet gives me no pain. I’ve always been really flexible, and I was a gymnast for three years as a teen.
Sure, I always have been able to, working out or not. No pain or unusual effort needed. The “palms to the floor” thing is somewhat more of a challenge. Really warmed up and stretched, it’s a definite “maybe”.
Yep, I can get fingers to the toes with no problem. If I turn my hands in I can get the first two joints of my fingers on the floor. Palms to floor - no way in hell.
I can’t. 
If I really strain, I can touch my ankles, but that’s about as far as I can go. I even have short legs. But every time I try to touch my toes, the back of my knees feel really tight and I have to stop.
Yep, I can. Always have. I’m not particularly thin, either, and definitely not an athlete. I think I’d have to work up to palms on floor, though. I think I recall being able to do it at one time, but not right now!
As soon as I saw the title of this thread, I tried it. And did it. Which says to me that my belly isn’t as large as I feared. Take THAT, heavy liquor!
Can’t do that palm thing, though. You’re asking for too much there.
I can touch my toes without warmup. Palms flat on the floor - that’ll take some stretching first, I think. When I get home from work I’ll give it a try.
I can do this despite being the fatso that I am.
What’re toes? 
Robin, who hasn’t seen her feet in about a month
Sure. Actually, it’s a “fitness check” for me. If at any time touching the floor without bending knees feels strained, I know it’s time to get back into a fitness routine and off my ass.
Palms on the floor, though? No. Never been flexible at all, don’t think I could ever do it, but now I have something new to work towards!
I can definitely touch my toes, I can put my fingers under by toes touching the floor, and I can lay my palms on the floor both in front of and between my feet. I’ve been taking a yoga class, so I’m pretty flexible, but I could always touch my toes. Short legs and all.
Not in the morning.
But, by midday I can get my fingertips to toes and I can get my knuckles on the ground in the evening.
(With a lot of stretching over time, I can do the whole palms to the floor thing.)
Yep, touch toes no problem at all. I can also touch my palms to the floor if I stretch a bit first, despite my respectable beer gut.
I could always touch my toes and lay palms flat. I was surprised as a child when I found out that some of my friends couldn’t even touch their toes! I just assumed everyone could. I’m almost 33 :eek: and I can still touch my toes but laying the palms flat is getting harder to do. I should probably start doing some stretching and excercising. (Yeah! I’ll start tomorrow! ;))
I can touch my toes without bending my knees and it’s not painful, but the real “feet” (ok, someone hit me for that pun) is with a little pain I can put my palms flat on the ground. If anyone wants me to prove it e-mail me and I’ll take a pic of me doing it.
(/me has no life)
Heavens, no [she says, having another sip of tea]. I hire other people to touch my toes FOR me.
Me too! I always wondered, “What’s wrong with them?” And then I met people who couldn’t do cartwheels, and my whole world stopped making sense. 
I can still do a split too, despite my generous size.
shrew,
I can do splits too, with a lot of stretching. Which, I believe, is more unusual for a guy than a girl.
But I could never manage a cartwheel, no matter how hard I tried. (Which, admittedly, was not that hard.) I’m pretty dextrous generally, and very flexible, but I can’t do cartwheels.