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2015 Fitness Goal - Touching My Toes
2015 Fitness Goal - Touching My Toes Update
Here is the progress graph
March 2016 and September 2016
In all my current glory
Although compared to the end of 2015 it doesn't look quite so depressing
We moved houses over the summer so a lot of bands, rollers and other various contraptions were packed away in boxes for a while. So I had been a little lax on continuing my exercises. To compound the problem the slow progress has blunted my enthusiasm for painful stretches. Because of the lack of equipment and the fact that our new house has a hardwood floors on the main floor I added some dynamic type stretching and movements that I could just whip out and do whenever.
Stiff Bear Crawl - basically keep your legs straight and try to crawl small steps at a time
What it looks like in action
It definitely seems like I'm not getting much bang for my buck on the random stretching and mobility work I'm currently doing. I don't really have a good plan or set rotation for improving my toe touch at this point. It currently consists of random sessions when I have some free time typically in the evenings. I'm still doing yoga once a week. That all worked up until this point, so starting this month that is about to change. I've signed up for an online gymnastics course . Its an online training program called Gymnastic Bodies setup by ex USA gymnastics coach Christopher Sommer. I've signed up for just the front split stretching series and it was $75. It is 45 mins once a week and I have to say its pretty brutal. As of this writing I've done it three times. I'm hoping this will kick start my progress again with a more structured approach. We will see....
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