Sunaina Roshan says mobility and stretching have completely changed how her body feels, before and after workouts.

Over the past 20 years, static muscle stretching has gotten a bad rap. Once considered an essential part of any sport or exercise warm-up, static stretching has now been removed from the picture ...

You can always slightly cut back on your active exercise time to incorporate flexibility work. For example, if you usually ...

Traditional stretches, like when people bend over to touch their toes or stretch their legs on a fence, often cause the muscles to tighten rather than relax — exactly the opposite of what is ...

These static and dynamic upper-body stretches target the shoulders, hands, arms, chest and back to reduce pain and improve ...

Static stretching before exercise kills your power. The classic hold-and-stretch routine that most people perform before workouts actually decreases muscle power, strength, ...

Static stretching is probably what you're most used to. It involves striking a pose and standing still for 30 seconds, like the classic touching your toes or holding one arm across your chest to ...

Then, over the years, we were told it was better to stretch after exercise. It turns out, ... Do some static stretching before sports. If you’re playing a sport, Behm said, ...

Aaron Zamzow explains how flexibility exercises, dynamic stretching and movements, and strengthening exercises help to make ...

Dynamic stretches are done to warm up before a workout and static stretches are done to cool down. Stretching reduces injury risk, relieves sore muscles and increases flexibility.

A systematic review into the efficacy of static stretching as part of a warm-up for the prevention of exercise-related injury. Res Sports Med. 2008;16(3):213-31. doi: 10.1080/15438620802310784 ...

Static and dynamic stretching exercises are beneficial, as are yoga and tai chi. A new study finds people with greater flexibility are less likely to die of natural causes. Adults should stretch 2 ...