Why is that you can’t touch your toes while standing with your back on the wall? Can it really be done? Anyone did it before?
I can touch my toes with my back against a wall, but I have to raise my leg to do it. It would be absolutely impossible to touch your toes with your feet on the ground if your back is against the wall, since most people have approximately the same length in their arms and legs. Touching your toes is not only a measure of how flexible your hamstrings are, but how flexible your back is. So if you have a very flexible back, hips, and hamstrings, you can do it. I can’t do it with my back against the wall or not.
Your feet stick out from the wall about 8 inches (roughly). When you bend over to touch your toes your center of mass (guys, around your belly-button; dolls, about five inches below your navel) is more than 8 inches from the wall. Once your center of mass is no longer over your base of support you will topple. Regardless of your flexibility.
If you could press your entire chest against your quads and somebody held you agianst the wall while you bent down and you had some huge feet and pushed with your toes, you might be able to get away with it, but I doubt it.
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I remember this as an old party trick (at not too interesting parties).
Supposedly, women are able to touch their toes while standing against the wall, but men can’t.
I think the prevailing theory concerned upper body mass being greater in men (generally) so they could not maintain their balance, while women carry more of their body mass in the lower body, allowing them to remain balanced against the wall.
Seemed to work that way, depending on the alcohol consumtion.
If you mean HEELS against the wall too—no I can’t; unless like someone said, someone was holding me in place. LEANING against it, heels 6" away from wall—sure.
The “party” thing I remember was-----bend at the waist, head against a wall and pick up a chair. Us gals could do it but the guys couldn’t.
Ummm… unless I’m missing something, the minute I bend down to touch my toes, my back stops touching the wall.
Right?
