Can you stand up without using your hands?

[Emori]

I didn't use to be able to but I've been going to the gym for a year, doing a variety of strength, yoga, pilates and spin classes. And now I can do it!

I am mid fifties and feeling very pleased with myself.

Wow! I'm the same age with dodgy knees and can't kneel....and assumed I'd never be able to do this...you've given me hope!

Usually - yes. Right now, I’m 38+2 and need both hands and a variety of groans to get up 😂

Nope, not from the floor, or a chair! I'm 45 & have Fibromyalgia, back, neck, hip & mobility problems, I'm screwed & have been for almost 18 years now!!! Lol

No, I could barely get down there, I sort of landed with a big flop. I'm 67 and walk lots, but that's about it.

Yes, I can spring up from cross legged. But I am only 40 and pretty fit and active so not really that surprising or impressive.

Yes I can but I invariably go "ooof" when I do it (59 yrs old) 😄

I've been practising this all weekend. Still can't do it.
I think I could do it if my back was a foot longer (and the rest of me still normal size) so that I could thrust my weight further forwards.

I’ve been practising standing straight up from a cross-legged position, and I can do it, but end up turning 45 degrees anti-clockwise as I stand!

I’m guessing it’s because my right hip is tight?

WTF I am just grateful i can still get off the sofa!!

No, and it is an annoying reminder of my age, but I do enough exercise classes to make sure I can still get up from the floor using my arms as well. Knowing that not being able to get up after a fall can result in terminal decline in even older people helps motivate me to keep going to Pilates etc even though i am fairly hopeless at it.

No, just been diagnosed with petellofemoral osteoarthritis, which means I have bone on bone with my kneecap and femur. If I bend down there is no chance I’ll get up again without having to haul myself up. Even need to put hands either side of me when getting up from a chair, and struggle to lower myself onto the loo! I’ve always been fairly active, did regular gym, cycling etc but last 6 months my knees have deteriorated quite quickly. I’m ‘only’ 57!