Chin to Toe Pike

Hi all,

One of my fitness goals is to get my chin to my toes in a pike position. Which stretches would benefit me the most to accomplish this? 

Thanks in advance!

Achilles, achilles and achilles stretch.

would anyone explain me, why my post got deleted? not a nice practice to delete posts without any motivation.

Post was moved in the correct section since admis consider that it covers a part of a course.

20 hours ago, Alessandro Mainente said:

Achilles, achilles and achilles stretch.

I don't really feel anything in the kneeling achilles stretch. Are there any other stretches I could do besides standing achilles?

yes, the stretches which i recommend in my post. but the post is gone. can't find it. look on youtube for 'emmet louis head to toe stretching'. maybe it will help you. but if you're not feeling anything in the kneeling achilles stretch, you're either very mobile or you did it wrong.

14 minutes ago, Florian Nagel said:

yes, the stretches which i recommend in my post. but the post is gone. can't find it. look on youtube for 'emmet louis head to toe stretching'. maybe it will help you. but if you're not feeling anything in the kneeling achilles stretch, you're either very mobile or you did it wrong.

Thanks for reminding me about that. I actually tried his program last year, but had to stop since it was interfering with my Foundation workouts and I was constantly sore. I may give it a go again since I won't be training for a while. Thanks again!

If you look closer to the people who can reach the thumb with the head , all of them can pull the instep over the knee again again again. I suggested primarily the achilles stretch because:

-the ability to reach closer to the shinbone with the thumb foot is a matter of achilles

-no matter if the knee is straight in the "head to foot" position, the achilles remains the limiting factor also for the gastrocnemius that is involved more into straight legs stretch, simply because the insertion is the same of soleus and gastrocnemius.

-without complete plantar extension it is impossible to completely reduce the dorsi-flexion of the instep

-without a soft tibialis the  dorsi-flexion tends to be reduced.

-also for people with standard body segment proportion the head to feet position remains a dream. it is not a chance that young kids who have a partial skeletal development could reach the floor with head and straight knees. this mean that short upper legs is the limiting structural factor.

Feet and ankles react as a unique complex of accurate compensation. in order to reduce them you need to fix all the range of movements.

On 4/19/2016 at 10:22 PM, Alessandro Mainente said:

If you look closer to the people who can reach the thumb with the head , all of them can pull the instep over the knee again again again. I suggested primarily the achilles stretch because:

-the ability to reach closer to the shinbone with the thumb foot is a matter of achilles

-no matter if the knee is straight in the "head to foot" position, the achilles remains the limiting factor also for the gastrocnemius that is involved more into straight legs stretch, simply because the insertion is the same of soleus and gastrocnemius.

-without complete plantar extension it is impossible to completely reduce the dorsi-flexion of the instep

-without a soft tibialis the  dorsi-flexion tends to be reduced.

-also for people with standard body segment proportion the head to feet position remains a dream. it is not a chance that young kids who have a partial skeletal development could reach the floor with head and straight knees. this mean that short upper legs is the limiting structural factor.

Feet and ankles react as a unique complex of accurate compensation. in order to reduce them you need to fix all the range of movements.

Thanks for the info Alessandro.