22 October

Cool body stuff. If you do this, the closer to the ground you get, the tighter the muscles in your legs and elsewhere will feel. A common explanation for this is that you’re ‘stretching’ your muscles. In fact you’re not, proven by the fact that with practice that tight feeling will start to disappear. That tightening is your body trying to stop you from falling forward onto your head. From overbalancing. Tightening or effort you feel in your body is one part of your body working against another part of your body. In this case the legs tighten to stop your torso from toppling over.