While sitting down can you extend your right leg and rotate your right foot clockwise and at the same time extend your right arm and draw the letter 6 in the air? what happens to your foot does it continue to rotate clockwise or does it start to rotate counter clockwise?
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With my luck trying to do this I would fall out of my chair face first...... ok ok I tried it, and my foot went into reverse when I tried to draw the number 6...now I feel like a fool with everyone watching me.....They say I have now lost it!
656066
Just like how it sounds: The faster you move your arms, the faster your legs will move. This is why my coach always yells, "ARMS!" lol
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I'm left handed too but I use both depending on the situation.  If i sit next to a right handed person who is to my left, then i use my right so i am not bumping into them
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Remember to walk with head up, shoulders pulled back over your hips. Take each step with that posture maintained. Place each foot in front of the other foot in line as if you were waliking a tight rope. Strike heel first softly and purposefully. Each stride must come from the swivel of your hip and the tightening of the opposing but muscle--like you are sqeezing the opposite but cheek as you place the leg forward AND around in front of the other foot. It will cause your hips to sway gracefully and alluringly  as you walk like a model on a runway. Don't slouch or slump. The head shoulders and hips must remain aligned always, even when sitting. Legs stay together (I guess your parents would agree with that idea) at all times when sitting but you can angle the shins to one side or the other to form a gracefull folded shape.
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I suspect it's something simple.  I think because of the way your arm joints work, when you release the board with your right hand, for example, the board will have a very slight horizontal inclination to the left, which will eventually cause it to turn in the air and veer to the left.\n\nIt will be interesting to hear what someone with a knowledge of biology or physics will say though.  :)
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I suffered from this years ago when I started my first year of marching band.  Make fun if you want, but marching band is hard work.  You do so much walking, and not normal walking either.  They taught us what they called the roll-step, which reduces the bounce in your walk, and involves pointing your toe way up in the air as you start your stride, thus stretching the calf muscle.  This was my first year of doing this, and doing it repeatedly for a few days caused me so much pain on the front of my right calf muscle that they put me on crutches the rest of the week.  After the worst of it healed, I would from the on wrap my leg from the bottom of my knee to the ankle with an ace bandage to try and support my calf and keep everthing "tight" while marching.  It still bugs me to this day if I do anything to strenuous, especially on hard surfaces, with that leg.  I was also suggested a little exercise which helps also with sore ankles.  Pretend your toe is the tip of a pen, and write the alphabet in cursive in the air with your toe.  Sound silly, but try it.
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When you do a tricep push-up, you put your body at a 90 degree angle and prop yourself up on a bench/chair.  Put your hands on the bench and lower yourself almost to the floor. This is what works your triceps!
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Are you allowed to stretch where you sit.  There are exercises that can be done while sitting in a chair that help a lot.  When your neck starts to burn and your head starts to throb, can you stop a few seconds and put your chin to your chest and hold it and then move your head to your right shoulder and then to your left shoulder and then lift your hands towards the ceiling and just stretch?  This sometimes helps.  And then also stopping and just taking a few really deep breaths while looking off into the distance can help also.  I have an office job where I set at a desk in front of a computer all day long.  Fortunately, I can get up and walk around whenever I want.  But the company I work for stresses the stretching exercises.  You also need a really good chair . . . one that fits you and an articulating keyboard holder.  And make sure your computer screen is at eye level so you do not have to look up or down.  Most employers will modify your work station to accommodate you.  Good luck.
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It's because left and right are relative terms, while up and down refer more to absolutes.  If were facing east looking into a mirror, our right hand would be south, and our left hand north.  Referred to north and south, there is no inversion--move your "north hand" and the image's "north hand" moves; move your south hand and the images south hand moves.  The problem is that left/right is a special sort of orientation that is centered from ourselves and distinguishes from two symmetrical sides of ourselves.  You right hand looks like the reflection of you left hand, but when you look at the reflection of your left hand, that reflect is still on *your* left.  If you imagine that the image reflected is some different person, and you try to set up a left/right orientation with resepct to the person in the mirror, it will be backwards--but that's only because it is erroneous to think that the reflection of your right hand is your reflection's left hand.  It isn't; it just looks like a left hand because our bodies display left/right symmetry.  If your head looked like the mirror image of your feet, you might make the same mistake, but the body does not display any manner of top/bottom symmetry.
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If you want more ways to do them, we used to do the middle splits in acrobatics by lying on the ground on our backs with our butts and legs against the wall, then spreading our legs and trying to get a 180 degree angle. Gravity helped us out a lot. If that didn't work, our instructor would push down on both legs. It hurt, but it was a good type of hurt. It helped our flexibilities a lot. \n\nAlso, another way we did this in China was to be between two balance beams (or chairs, or anything off the ground that is stable) and do a split on the balance beams. With all your weight pressing down your body, it really helps flexibility. The problem with this exercise though, is that you really have to have the splits down already, and be able to do oversplits too. Otherwise, it won't really work. But once you get the splits, it shoudl be no problem for you. Good luck!
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When the bicep contracts, the tricep stretches out at the same time.  This curls your arm in.\n\nWhen the tricep contracts, the bicep cooperates and stretches out, letting you extend your forearm out.
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the knee jerk reflex, is caused by stretch in your guadriceps. there are receptors in the tendon that sense stretch of the tendon and send messages, as you said, to the spinal cord. The  spinal cord then tells the quads to tighten so the tendon doesn't become too stretched and break.  Now the hand position, what that does is distract the person from controlling the muscles.  The reflex is unconscious but can be overriden if you think about it, so doctors try to make you think about holding your arms together so you aren't impeding your reflex
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I use my left AND right hands. I'm ambidextrous, but most times I'll use my right hand to write and my left hand to draw and paint. I think Leonardo DaVinci did the same thing. It's real cool and really freaks people out when I sketch AND write at the same time, especially when I was at school. ;)
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eggbeater, either both legs circulating at once or kick one beat with one leg and one beat with another.  Feel free to email me with any other training questions. I'd love to help you out
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exercise concentrating on the left more to make it as much as ur right leg.
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this would help you keep from pulling off the ball or whats called "stepping in the bucket".  Basically if you close your stance, this makes your body stay in the hitting zone if you naturally want to pull the ball. This keeps your hips locked in during your swing so that you don't pull away from the pitch, thus you tend to get better contact.  This type of stance usually only works with batters who tend to try to pull everything and is used as a remedy to keep the batter on the pitch.  \nI am a switch hitter and when I bat Left I close my stance because I tend to pull everything.  Because I closed my stance, I stay on the pitch more often and am able to hit to all fields, including right field.  When I bat Right handed, its the opposite. I tend to hit everything the other way so I open my stance and now I can hit to all fields.  Good luck
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When a person walks slowly, very slowly, the upper limbs tend to swing in unison. Basically, what is happening here is that limbs swing forward to catch up with the forward movement of the body. Because the body is moving slowly, the limbs are actually moving faster than the body (that is because the limbs are accelerating through the force of gravity). When the limbs move ahead of the body, they have to swing back. So, the two limbs are moving back and forth like a pendulum. When a person walks at a medium to brisk pace, they tend to swing the upper limbs in a contralateral fashion with the lower limbs � that is right foot and left hand move together, while left foot and right hand move together. There are some experts that will tell you that this movement is being done for the purposes of balance, but I find that explanation to be unsatisfactory at walking speeds (it works a little better for running, but running is a completely different style of locomotion than walking). We can, after all, walk just fine without swinging our limbs, such as when we are carrying and object or when we make a conscious choice not to swing them. Similarly, when we carry an object in only one arm, the other arm tends to swing. One swinging limb would actually be harmful to balance, so in my opinion if arm swinging is important for balance during locomotion, you wouldn抰 swing your arms unless you could swing both of them. What I believe is happening is that arm swinging is a neurological holdover from quadrupedal locomotor patterns. When quadrupeds walk, most of them tend to do so with a contralateral gait pattern � which does aid their balance when moving at slow walking speeds. Human bipedalism is such a new evolutionary development, that the neural pathways that control locomotion have not yet faced selective pressures to change. So, when we swing our arms, our brain (or perhaps more appropriately the cerebellum) is controlling our limbs as if we where still quadrupedal animals.