Prepare your body with these dynamic stretches designed to improve mobility and reduce injury risk before any workout.

Introduction: This randomized controlled trial aimed to compare the acute and sustained effects of tissue flossing (TF) versus dynamic stretching (DS) on hamstring muscle stiffness and flexibility in ...

If you can’t touch your toes without majorly bending your knees, that’s a sure sign you could benefit from doing hamstring stretches. But even if you can touch your toes easily, you should still be ...

You laced up your sneakers (or put on barre socks), had your pre-workout snack and are ready to dive headfirst into your workout. We admire your motivation. However, experts stress it’s vital to ...

If you’re someone who trains hard, you probably already know that recovery is just as crucial as the workout itself. But to get out the tight kinks and relieve sore muscles, there is a debate about ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Stretching relieves stiffness and supports mobility, ...

Once you put in a few hours in the gym or finally take the final step in a miles-long run, it’s very easy to want to head straight to the showers rather than stretching. But not taking the time to ...

Mobility and flexibility are related but distinct. Improving flexibility and mobility may improve a person’s athletic performance and range of motion, and help to reduce the risk of injuries. Someone ...

Muscle stretching is widely recognized as a fundamental component of physicl activity and exercise routines, traditionally applied to improve joint flexibility and increase range of motion (ROM).

Exclusive: Matt Shakman says Mister Fantastic's stretching was also inspired by Marvel and DC artist Alex Ross in The Fantastic Four: First Steps – and that it was "challenging" to bring to life When ...

Aaron Zamzow explains how flexibility exercises, dynamic stretching and movements, and strengthening exercises help to make hips flexible, so firefighters can maintain balance and control. As ...

The Image component generates a src-set for dynamic images, each image with a &wid=NNNN parameter. If the image width happens to be larger than the source image uploaded to the DAM, this wid parameter ...