Can you do the splits?

I can’t do the splits but I can still do a full lotus ??‍♀️and touch my toes with straight legs

Yammy I have quite long legs

Riverwalk thought that was you for a minute!

Truth be told lemsip the likeness is remarkable, not!

Just looking at her position makes me want to cross my legs

Yes but not box splits like that. I can also only do it with my right leg in front and left behind, not the other way round.
Not bad for 72. ?

Who's she trying to impress

Not a very nice comment.

I'm starting to wonder if I could make myself that flexible but I've recently injured myself in my sleep so it's not promising

No

Nope. Looking at the picture made my eyes water.

Thank you for highlighting this series from the Guardian. A new start is just what I feel the need for too! My 95 year old mum has always been able to touch the floor without bending knees, and still can. ?

Let me check on my BUPA membership first......

Please Yammy hold a bannister when on stairs! Or at least keep one hand free and 'hover'... The only nasty accident I had as a child was falling down from top of stairs when pulling up socks,... and colliding with the Hoover on bottom step. As an adult the only time I have broken a bone was from a fall when going down steps and misjudging step because I was carrying a tray in both hands and could not see that a mat had been moved out of position.

No, can't do the splits, never could, or the lotus position. But I can easily touch my toes, even though I am short-waisted with long legs.

We are a very hypermobile family and I remember Mother telling us it was foolish to be forever demonstrating our funny joints. My son from babyhood would be doing odd things with his thumb while holding my hand and now I try to discourage the grandchildren from folding up their limbs like Houdini. I have ‘aggressive’ arthritis and though I can bend over and walk my hands flat on the ground I cannot stand up straight. To my knowledge none of us can do the splits though I remember trying 70 years ago.

Absolutely not! Never in my life. But I have spinal problems and arthritis now.

franbern my daughter has hypermobility. Causes her all sorts of problems, especially when recently pregnant. Problems with her pelvis and hips among other things. It didn’t help when she tripped over something on the pavement left by a utility company. She was carrying a lot of equipment for work and didn’t see it. She had to have two operations on her wrist and it was extremely painful.

Yup. My cousin and I both can at ages 62 and 60. Can also put my elbows on the floor with straight legs. Blame it all on a lot of gymnastics as child and then yoga and Pilates ever since

I'm not even going to try. I think something vital might be split if I try.
But I do keep fit. Just finished a 12 week course of Strength and Balance classes.

If you can lift each leg out sideways, independently i.e. one at a time, to the horizontal (so I've heard) there's no reason not to be able to do the box splits (as in the OP photo). Our legs are not joined together. Apparently it's fear that stops people getting right down. ???

Delighted that she can do this and I wish I still could. Having been hypermobile as a child and younger adult, I can no longer do all those 'party tricks' that I used to now that I have osteoarthritis in a number of joints.

No I can’t and don’t have any wish to

I used to do the splits as a girl. Now I'm 81 and disabled I don't want to try to do this. What's the point?

Absolutely, with banana, chocolate sauce and pecans ?

Well someone had to say it!

Can't do the splits - never could!

No, last time I was about 7.Doesn' t even look natural to me for a human being !