Jakob Roze, CSCS, is a health writer and high-end personal trainer. He is the founder and CEO of RozeFit, a high-end concierge personal training practice and online blog. Knee injuries are often ...

Doing the splits and folding your forehead onto your thighs are cool party tricks, but the best flexibility benefits are functional–and you don’t need to be Gumby to reap them. There are two main ...

As our muscles perform their duty of flexing or extending joints in our body, they either contract (shorten), or extend (lengthen). Elise mentioned that every muscle in our body performs optimally or ...

Traditional stretching has its limits. Here’s how using a light dumbbell can help you move better. Traditional stretching has its limits. Here’s how using a light dumbbell can help you move better.

Get relief from leg pain with a mix of specific stretches, strength-building exercises, and changes to your daily habits, says a senior physiotherapist. *Our legs support our bodyweight, helping us to ...

Hip pain can be incredibly uncomfortable and distracting, with causes ranging from tight muscles to osteoarthritis, a joint condition. Some exercises and stretches for hip pain may be just as helpful, ...

Underpinning many aspects of day-to-day life, such as your ability to move well and stay injury free, flexibility is an important component of overall fitness. It's defined as your capacity to move a ...

Chances are, you don't think much about your tailbone — until you injure it. Your tailbone, or coccyx, is a small triangular bone at the base of your spine, and it’s possible to bruise or fracture it, ...

Stretches like the knee to chest stretch and trunk rotation can help relieve SI joint pain. A physical therapist can also provide targeted exercises to strengthen the surrounding muscles. Share on ...

You might think flexibility is something you're born with -- you either have it or you don't. Even if you did have it, keeping it isn't always easy as you grow older. But while your flexibility level ...