How to Touch Your Toes (Quick & Easy Flexibility Hack!)
Can you touch your toes? Yes, yes you can! That’s exactly what you will be saying after you practice these moves!
I have a quick and easy flexibility hack to help you touch your toes if you couldn’t previously. This trick is all about helping your body to feel safe.
If your body feels like it doesn’t have a good base of support or it doesn’t feel safe, it’s going to restrict and pull on the hamstrings so you can’t bend forward as much.
Your body is not used to standing with your feet close together for a longer period of time; we usually stand with our feet far apart or lean on one leg and then the other. So all of a sudden, if you bring your feet together and you try to bend forward, your body’s like, “Whoa, that doesn’t feel safe.”
So let’s dive into some neurological trickery and practice how to increase stability so your body feels safe in order to bend forward.
(By the way, if you’re looking for another trick to bend forward and touch your toes without even touching the hamstrings, check out this post!)
Follow along with the video below or keep reading!
Pillow squeezes
While in a standing position with your feet close together, put a pillow between your legs. Squeeze the heck out of the pillow to ‘turn on’ the adductors.
Adductor muscles help with balance and stabilization of the body.
Bend over as if to touch your toes while squeezing the pillow and activating the adductors, and roll through the spine, then come back up. I recommend doing this 5-10 times.
Elevated pillow squeezes to touch your toes
Use another pillow or rolled-up towel to elevate your heels. Keep the pillow between your legs and continue to squeeze to activate the adductors as you roll down and back up with the heels slightly elevated. Do this 5 times.
Then move the pillow or rolled up to town from your heels to underneath your toes and repeat folding forward and coming back up. Do this 5 times as well.
Forward fold
After five in each position, you might feel a little tired – like those legs just got worked – which is great. Now try bending forward with nothing in between your legs or under your feet and see what it feels like. You should feel safer to get a little bit more range of motion in that forward fold. Give it a shot.
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