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Can YOU touch your elbows together???
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Swoleyoley
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I can do anything you can do better, i can do anything better than you!
brianmincher
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I cannot get to within 6 or 8 inches of touching my elbows together. I have not been able to touch my elbows together since I was about 165, I am 230 now.
I was a 3 time state champion full contact karate fighter. I could not touch my elbows together then either, 2 years at 165, one year at 185. The only people I have seen that could do it were very poorly muscled people. I don't doubt that there are some big fellows that can touch elbows, but I have never seen anyone with any kind of size able to do it. I am 5 foot 7. I can squat around 600 and I can do the chinese splits. Flexibility means something, but once you have acheived a certain amount of size, some things just become physically impossible. Just like the inverse being true. Not a lot of 130 pounders out there benching 500, and not a lot of 300 pounders dunking basketballs.
I was a 3 time state champion full contact karate fighter. I could not touch my elbows together then either, 2 years at 165, one year at 185. The only people I have seen that could do it were very poorly muscled people. I don't doubt that there are some big fellows that can touch elbows, but I have never seen anyone with any kind of size able to do it. I am 5 foot 7. I can squat around 600 and I can do the chinese splits. Flexibility means something, but once you have acheived a certain amount of size, some things just become physically impossible. Just like the inverse being true. Not a lot of 130 pounders out there benching 500, and not a lot of 300 pounders dunking basketballs.
solidspine
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I think I dislocated my sternum & rib cage trying to touch my elbows together, then I realized, why would anyone want to do this, it is physically impossible.
This is such a joke ... and a few of us are laughing.
Hardly ANYONE can do this.
Its an old "trick" of sorts. Kind of like that trick where men can't bend over at the waist with their head against a wall, pick up a chair, and "right" themselves.
This is a trick question, it makes the respondents feel as if they are either:
... not flexible (right sure, I know many flexioble people who cannot do this either) or
..... like super-buffed, when most skinny geeks or fatty .. hell.... almost 99% of the population .... cant do this either!
Its a joke question guys, been around for years.
Its been used also in various mind-trick scenarios ... where someone looks at a person and says "hm, .... I'll bet you cant touch yoru elbows together .... can you?". The person (subject) tries, and ..... WOW ......... he CANT! Who would have guessed?!?!?!
Hardly ANYONE can do this.
Its an old "trick" of sorts. Kind of like that trick where men can't bend over at the waist with their head against a wall, pick up a chair, and "right" themselves.
This is a trick question, it makes the respondents feel as if they are either:
... not flexible (right sure, I know many flexioble people who cannot do this either) or
..... like super-buffed, when most skinny geeks or fatty .. hell.... almost 99% of the population .... cant do this either!
Its a joke question guys, been around for years.
Its been used also in various mind-trick scenarios ... where someone looks at a person and says "hm, .... I'll bet you cant touch yoru elbows together .... can you?". The person (subject) tries, and ..... WOW ......... he CANT! Who would have guessed?!?!?!
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