Sit bone width

[sundial]

I took a piece of paper and put it on a shop stool. Becauser I had to sit lower, I think my sitbones left better impressions. I found this worked best.

If you know of a Specialized dealer, they have a butt-o-meter to measure your sitbones.

[Tri Girl]

You chickies must have some boney butts- with all the padding on mine I couldn't get a clear definition of my sit bones.

Butt-o-meter, eh??? Even if I didn't need my sit bone measurement- might be something I'd have to try out- just to do it...

[mtbdarby]

I swallowed my pride and went to lbs to have it measured I think we were both embarr"assed" a bit but they had me sit on a piece of foam and measured from there.

Someone here had suggested sitting on a piece of paper on the curb, which I tried, but that didn't work for me.

[RoadRaven]

If your butt is too padded (as mine seemed to be...) then sit on the floor or other hard surface and rock back/forward a little and you should get a sense of where the main pressure from your bones is.

Alternately you can just grab your butt (or get the person who likes to grab your butt to fondle it for you ) and rub/massage gently and you should be able to feel the point of your bones from that...

Remember that your sit bones are part of your pelvis, and as such will be somewhere above the top of your thigh bones... what I'm trying to say is don't look for your sitbones on the widest part of your butt cheeks...

Have fun!!!

[Deanna]

My pilates instructor has given me two methods, they work for my body.

Standing method (if you have very long feet or flexible hip sockets, this may not work, most of us are proportional though)
1. Stand with your feet together.
2. Keeping your ankles together, point your toes away from your ankle (so your feet are in a V)
3. Align your ankles with your toes. Your heels should be about sits bone width apart.

Sitting:
Sit down on the ground and kind-of pull your buttock flesh (sorry, cant't think of a more technical term) out from under you. You'll feel your sits bones a lot easier this way.

[batsheva]

dont think i really sit back on my underneath 'sit bones'-- (ischial tuberosities)-- i think i sit with much more weight fwd onto pubic symphysis and kind of form a triangle of weight bearing like that, with less on the 'sit bones'-- it works for me anyway :-)

[GLC1968]

I did the 'butt-o-meter' thing at my LBS but I didn't buy it. It said that my sit bones and my husbands sit bones were the same distance apart.

I came home and tried measuring them myself. I sat on the floor and grabbed a fabric tape measure. I held it between my fore fingers and thumb with about 5 inches between my hands. I rolled onto my back, flipped my legs up over my head (ie. held them up in the air towards my head), and then felt around on my butt until I found the bones on both sides. I positioned the tape measure at the bones and held on to it. I put my legs through my arms still holding on to the tape measure and voila! I had the distance between my sitbones.

(I was not nearly as contorted as this description makes it sound. )

Sure enough, DH and I do have the same width between our sitbones. Who would have thunk it...me with my big butt and him with his 'no butt'!

[emily_in_nc]

Standing method (if you have very long feet or flexible hip sockets, this may not work, most of us are proportional though)
1. Stand with your feet together.
2. Keeping your ankles together, point your toes away from your ankle (so your feet are in a V)
3. Align your ankles with your toes. Your heels should be about sits bone width apart.

Uhhhh, no. My sitbones are not 10" apart!

I have size 7 feet. I can turn my toes out a long way, though. And I never even did ballet!

[Deanna]

Hence the disclaimer about flexibility!!