Male, 24, and can barely touch my toes. I used to be better, hold on let me go check something…yup, can still put both legs behind my head. 
Could be…I saw a GP about it, but they didn’t care, since it “wasn’t effecting my quality of life”, or something to that end. Actually, if I’m interested in figuring out what the root cause is, what type of doctor should I be looking for?
LOL… I could never do that. I can’t touch my toes anymore either, my hamstrings are soo tight these days.
50 yrs and having a bad back day but can just touch my toes (although it’s not painless).
Not too bad I think. I’m terribly out of shape, though slim.
My bike was stolen a couple of weeks ago, I was soo looking forward to riding it lots and getting into better shape, as a result. Bummer. Still, I hope to find another bike this week sometime. Then there’ll be no stopping me!
Hehe. I can do this, too, though it’s not exactly a talent one gets to display often. 
I am not very limber at all, never have been. I can get within 6 inches of the floor.
Without warming up or stretching, I can put my palms flat on the floor with my elbows slightly bent. I could bend them more, but my torso does not have the ability to pass through my thighs. Sitting down on the floor, I can reach my wrists three or four inches past my toes. Sitting in butterfly position (tailor-fashion, but with the bottoms of my feet pressed together), I can touch my nose to the ground.
I used to be able to touch my toes to the back of my head, but not anymore.
I can put my elbows on the floor. Additionally, I can get my right foot behind my head. I can come close to getting the left one back there, but it’s a little tight.
My knees also hit the ground, perfectly flat in “butterfly” position…you know, sitting on the floor, feet together.
I think it’s because I"m a freak.
I can flat-hand the floor without even feeling stretched – even bending my elbows a bit is just starting to feel like I am stretching. I can (with feet about 12" apart, flat-hand the floor behind my feet (maybe only a few inches before I feel the burn, as it were). I can almost put both feet behind my head. With very little stretching, I can do Chinese-style, Korean-style or Japanese-style splits all the way down. Never have figured out the American-style, just seems awkward as hell.
I also prefer butterfly-style sitting to Indian-style (criss-cross applesauce for the PC-types) and have no problem touching my nose to my knees with my legs stretched out while seated. I often squat rather than sit, though, which makes a lot of my friends who are veterans a bit nervous.
Although it is simply because I have always been limber and had that in my past, the main reason I continued to stretch as I got heavier and heavier (I could easily do the splits at 331lbs) is that I refused to even consider the possibility of not being able to do my own basic hygiene (if you know what I mean).
My husband? Not as limber now as he used to be, but when he was still in TaeKwonDo, he could do “negatives” – that’s when you put your feet on a raised serface and do the splits below the plane of your feet. He can still do the splits, just not negatives. Yeh, we have fun in the bedroom
Yeah I can touch my knees to the floor with the soles of my feet pressed together and my heels in my crotch.
Edited to clarify: not** IN** my crotch!! You know what I meant! Sheesh.
Just confirmed it:
Palms flat on the ground with elbows and knees straight, feet together or at shoulder width, very moderate muscle strain felt in the legs. Been able to do that as long as I can recall.
I wonder if it might be related to having short legs; my inseam is only 29 inches.
I’ve tried other examples of limberness mentioned here and haven’t been able to do any.
My back’s a little sore from working earlier today, and I’m stiff from sitting for the last hour. And I can flat-hand the floor.
When I was doing yoga, I could easily bend my elbows before I stretched. I’m bendy. And I have long legs, but long arms to match.
Without stretching or warming up, I was able to get up out of the chair. So I declared that a victory and called it a day.
I’m surprised at myself – tummy paunch an’ all, I still got to touch my toes first attempt.
Probably helps having good length in the finger area. 
I cannot touch the floor if I do not stretch, if I stretch I can rest my hands on the floor.
FYI for anyone interested, if you cannot touch your toes the culprits are probably one of the following.
If it strains in your thighs.
or
If it strains in your calf.
A Massage Therapist or Physical Therapist. Even a Personal Trainer could help you with it.
Here is an easy stretch you can have someone else do.
Lying Supine, flex the knee that you are not stretching and place the bottom of your foot on the floor/mat/table, you want your lumbar flat. Keeping the leg straight have them bring it to the end of your normal range of motion. That is, you don’t want to tilt your pelvis because that would be stretching your Quadratus Lumborum in your lower back and not the muscles you are targetting. Once you have reached the end of your range of motion, the person pushing your leg reduces the pressure on your leg a little bit. Your knee should be straight, no flexing of the knee here. Now, you push your leg against their pressure breathing normally for a count of 8, after the count relax and take a deep breath. On the exhale the person pushes your leg just a little bit further then before, then from this position you repeat this paragraph. Remember, this shouldn’t hurt, like at all. Maybe a tiny dull ache as any normal stretch causes, but it should not hurt particularly in your joints.
It is probably your Gastrocnemius, Soleus or Plantaris, so you could do this excercise while dorsiflexing your foot. (That is where you push the top of your foot toward your shin) Remember that it’s not about pushing hard because you are working an individual muscle, so don’t let someone hurt you. You can feel the normal end feel when a muscle gets to it’s normal muscle length.
But yea, any massage therapist who knows what they are doing at all can probably give you a couple more inches in a single session. I’d recommend Swedish Massage for this, as this is what Swedish Massage is designed to do. There are other modalities that do it as well, I only don’t recommend them because I am less familiar with them.
However, check the Therapist’s credentials. There is a lack of strict enforcement in most states. New York State has the most strict guidelines and the best enforcement. You don’t want anyone who went to a school that requires less than 500 hours training. It’s 500 hours in Cali I believe and 1200 in New York. On that note, some people know what they are doing without accreditation, but you have no way of knowing beforehand.
Thanks…I’ll give one of those a try sometime, though I’m not sure that a non-doctor type will help; it’s flat out pain that’s stopping me. I never even feel a stretch, just pain from my knee, through my calf, into my heel.
Right now, no. After about a 15-20 minute long, pre-workout stretching regimen, yes i can. I need to be warm and gradually work into my limits. If I’m good and get to do this 4-5 times a week for a period of time, I do notice that I’m more limber in general though.
Ahh, ok, sounds like a pinched nerve, a Massage Therapist can help with that as well, but they are not allowed to diagnose it or prescribe treatment, so yeah, a doctor is in order for that. That’s probably the Tibial Branch of the Sciatic Nerve. It sounds like a Muscle entrapment. The nerves go through the muscle tissues and sometimes get pinched off by the muscle fibers.
I don’t know how important it is to you, but if your GP blew you off maybe you should get a new one. Though, I am tending more and more to be into the healthcare for general wellness perspective rather than the healthcare for pathologies perspective, so YMMV.
First try, I touched my toenails, second try, I made it to the floor with my very fingertips, third time I pressed my fingertips into the carpet. I was pretty proud of myself. At least I’m not totally decrepit.
At the age of eighty, having had both hips and a knee replaced, and in spite of needing a walker and built-up shoes, my mother bent from the hip and put the whole length of her fingers, on both hands, flat on the floor. Made her day, I’ll tell you. I’ve never been quite that limber, even when I was much thinner than I am now.