Why You Can't Touch Your Toes (and the Benefits You're Missing)

Wondering why you can't touch your toes? Find out why the forward fold is hard, whether you can improve your forward fold, and the benefits you're missing if you can't touch your toes!

CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:43 Why You Can't Forward Fold
03:33 How to Improve Your Forward Fold
07:35 Benefits of Improving Forward Fold
10:29 What Will Happen If You Try
12:05 Resources and Closing

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CREDITS
Ending Music: David Cutter Music - http://www.davidcuttermusic.com
Ballet Video by Taryn Elliott: https://www.pexels.com/video/dancing-beautiful-woman-city-life-ballet-5051319/
Yoga Video by ROMAN ODINTSOV from Pexels
Male Gymnast Video by Tima Miroshnichenko: https://www.pexels.com/video/a-man-doing-exhibition-on-a-parallel-bars-6571899/
Indian farmers: The Timbaktu Collective, found at: https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/how-urban-organic-farming-india-may-be-working-against-traditional-farmers-102636
African farmer with green hat: Swathi Sridharan (formerly ICRISAT, Bulawayo), https://www.flickr.com/photos/swathi-icrisat-esa/12201688784/ CC BY-SA
Asian Farmer Photo by Visual Karsa on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/photos/mhJTo8b6rVo

ABOUT THIS VIDEO
If you can't touch your toes, is it genetic? Is the reason you can't touch your toes because of your bones? Do X-rays prove that you don't have the right body shape to be able to touch your toes? In this video you'll learn myths about stretching to touch your toes, you'll discover why you can't forward fold to touch your toes right now, and you'll learn what will happen when you start stretching to improve your forward fold.

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