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Just reawakening an older thread rather than starting a new one:

So I have a bit of a strange variant on the spin motion sickness thing. I can do a bunch of spins one after the next at the studio and have no problems, but if I do even one spin on the pole at home I want to barf. I wondered if it was because the wall of the studio all look the same, whereas at home I'm going past full bookshelves and a radiator on the way round. Has anyone else come across this?

sarah

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So excited to find other people working on splits for the new year!

You know the lunge exercise that is being discussed? Is it possible that the instructions mean that the back leg has to be behind but the hip is rotated outwards? In that case, if it was the left leg back, the toes and the knee would point to the left wall, and then the instep would be on the ground. The "inside" of the calf would also then be pointing towards the ground (the inside of the calf being the bit that would be in contact with the other leg if you were standing straight up) and I'd guess with work would eventually rest upon the ground. Does that make any sense to anyone else? It is a baffling description!

The main thing that made me wonder is that there are two ways of positioning your back leg for a split – either the "normal" way which is where your knee and  top of foot rest on the floor and the "alternate" way where your instep rests on the floor and your knee faces out to the side. The second way is a stretch more through the inner thigh, and puts more work onto your knees, but is more comfy for some. It just seems like that particular exercise is pushing towards the second style of splits.