Posted on 01/17/2020 12:57:35 PM PST by beaversmom
I have noticed that girls can squat easier than boys. I think they are more limber.
I can hardly squat at all mainly because of arthritis in my knees. Certain cultures seem to do a lot more of it than others.
Tough after ACL replacement
I doubt I can do it very easily.
Haven’t tried it in years.
Seems like there was a thread about
third world toilets a few years back.
I’ve heard that squatting for that is supposed to be better, too.
I'm like you. I played baseball into high school as a catcher, soccer from elementary school through college, and then 10 years in the army. My knees are shot.
“...kneeling on one’s knees and heels—are not just good for us, but according to beach they are “deeply embedded into the way our bodies are built.”
How do you knee on one’s knees and heels, at the same time. No one’s body is built that way. No one.
... a lost art being revived in San Fransicko ...
Lol!
I can lower myself from a standing position to a cross-legged seat on the floor and then raise myself right back up, with no hands involved.
My doctor calls me “Gumby” and makes all his med students come in to witness me doing this.
In my early 20s, a chiropractor told me that I was very limber...and that one day, I’d pay for it.
He was right.
I was a trainee in the Peace Corps in the late 60s. Supposed to go to Afghanistan. They taught us how to squat. Took a while to get “used” to it. By used to it, I mean I could maybe do it for 5 minutes tops before my knees started screaming at me to get up. Some in the trainee group did take to it. They’d squat on a chair. Looked like birds. Some squirmy kids at the school I sub at will do it. Drives some teachers nuts.
Then there’s sitting on the floor Japanese style to eat a meal.
The guy on the left lives in San Francisco where he is a squatter in a homeless encampment nd is squatting to fertilize the soil.
The guy on the left also lives in San Francisco where he is a Starbucks Squatter.
A man I worked with was close friends to a Japanese couple. They had been in America since the 1930s. Around 1965 they went back to Japan to visit relatives.
They only lasted one day with their kinfolks. Had to stay in a hotel the rest of the week. Just couldn’t take their way of living.
One thing is their bathroom was just a hole in the floor covered when not in use.
Funny.
And they can do that crazy dancing from a squatting position, too.
Recent studies indicate that close to half of the population can pee standing up.
Ok, then. I should have been dead last week.
Lol. I think nearly 100 percent can. Just messier for some.
If I squatted down like that Caveman, I would need to roll over on my side like a cigar until my knees were on the ground. Only then, could I use my arms to hoist myself off the ground. Unless someone just happened to have a Hoyer Lift ready to roll into the room.
It’s too late for my knees to adapt to that position w/o lasting pain.
Understood.
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