An Exercise for the Reader

If you’re in the mood, try this to see if you notice anything:

Stand on a carpet, area rug, yoga mat or wherever you feel comfortable doing something weird for a couple minutes.

1. Get down on the floor and lay on your back.

2. Get back up to a standing position

3. Do this 3-5 times on each side

I’m fairly comfortable with this kind of thing, and yet when I did it my abs seemed to notice I was doing something a little out of the ordinary. It’s work standing up and laying down on the ground repeatedly. My cats thought it was extremely interesting. Seems like a very unsexy, pedestrian sort of exercise: boring. But I can’t help thinking about what it must be like to not be able to bend and flex enough to get on the floor, or more importantly to get back up...