Use these five simple moves to improve mobility and incite total-body harmony anywhere in your home. Mobility is one of the most overlooked aspects of fitness and often gets left out when you’re in a hurry to get out of the gym and back to life. These excuseproof stretches can be done in each room of...
Three stretches you should never do — and what to do instead. It some point, a little training snobbery is okay, especially when the risk outweighs the reward. Stretching on the whole is a safe practice, but not every stretch is good for every body, and unless you’re a contortionist, pro athlete or seasoned yogi, there’s...
Ease muscle tension and relax your mind before bed with these pajama-friendly stretches. Ever make the effort to get to bed at a decent hour only to experience a war of attrition with the clock on your nightstand? Its numbers silently tick away while you attempt to quell jumpy legs and a racing mind that pauses...
The weak link for many trainers is their hips. Incorporating lizard pose into your post-workout stretching is a great way to open the hip flexors and hamstrings for better flexibility and mobility. Your hips are likely among the least flexible portions of your body, yet hip flexibility actually improves your overall training ability, training form, cardio...
Weary of all the research that links stretching to injury? Follow the six rules below to make sure you’re doing it safely and effectively.You don’t need to be able to break out into the splits on cue, but the first step to having a more limber body comes with understanding some general guidelines. The problem?...
Do this 10-minute routine to release stress, improve oxygen uptake and elevate your mood.When you’re going through a tough time, you feel like you want to curl up and hide — and you might unconsciously be doing just that, closing up your arms, hunching your shoulders and dipping your head down. This postural alteration constricts...
Untie the knots that are holding you back by releasing these five problem areas.Though they're not fully understood, trigger points are commonly believed to be mini muscle spasms caused by repetitive trauma to the tissue, either because of poor posture or repetitive movement patterns that, over time, cause a compensation to occur. That compensating muscle...
Bring your heart rate down this summer with these cool-down exercises that require virtually no equipment.Let’s be honest. Most of us only have an hour to spend at the gym, if that. To ask for a warm-up and a cool-down is a bit of a stretch (no pun intended). Where do we find the time? Listen...
Improve blood flow, increase range of motion and relieve stress in less than five minutes with this five-part stretch.How many of you out there skip your warm-up? Now that everyone in North America has raised their hands, let’s talk time-turkey: This stretch hits almost every muscle in your body and takes less than five minutes...