Stand up sit down keep moving

[nineveh_uk]

It is 11pm. I am supposed to be in bed. Instead I am pyjama-clad and in my bedroom but experimenting in how to get up off the floor without using knees or hands. To be precise I'm wondering why almost all the examples imply that the only way to do this is crosslegged, rather than via a squat. It turns out I can do it crosslegged, but only easily by rolling myself backwards first to gain momentum and leap up in a cartoon ninja move. I can't help feeling that there may be a teensy bit fo different body shapes and proportions, centre of gravity differences going on in this even before flexibility and strength come in to play.

ETA. Oh wait, I've worked out how to do it. The people in the videos have their feet far back towards the hips and the sides of the feet on the floor. You go up on those.

ETA 2: Got it. It's about finding the starting position that allows use of the thigh muscles as well as the core. If my legs are too flat, their muscles aren't in the right plce to provide the necessary force, if they are more upright, my centre of gravity is in the wrong place (overcome by the ninja move). Whereas the squat technique lets me use all relevant muscles easily and move my weight forward.

ETA 3: No, that's not really what I'm doing. Well, I have worked it out, anyway!

ETA 4: This is ridiculous. I locked myself in the stationery cupboard at work to try again (successfully). Now I cannot. Though possibly this is because I've just had dinner.

Comments

[antisoppist]

Nope. Going down I can get much lower before I fall over if I do it as a squat without my ankles crossed but I still have to just fall over at the end. Going up, I can't see how you get from your weight being on the sides of your feet cross-legged, to it being on the soles of your feet to enable you to stand up.

It's like when Adriene says to sit cross-legged and now smoothly rock onto all fours. I can't see how you get your legs to go from in front of you to being behind you without crushing your ankles and why would you do that when you can swing your knees round and kneel up.

I'd only heard of this kind of thing as a test to see if you would be left lying on your floor for days when you are old and fall over and I thought I was fine because I can get up off the floor, without hands if necessary, but this is more demanding as a fitness test. It is this kind of thing that is why I am doing 30 Days of Yoga again.

[nineveh_uk]

I am going with clanwilliam's brother saying it is a stupid test.

I have just eaten dinner so I can't do it again at all now, even though at work I went and experimented in the stationery cupboard and managed it (it is a narrow, carpeted room, not an actual cupboard). However I have just experimented in smoothly rocking to all fours, and well yes, it can be smooth, but it certainly isn't comfortable!