You might associate flexibility with hitting a full split or tossing your leg behind your head. But, by textbook definition, flexible simply refers to the ability to flex or bend, often repeatedly.

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It's easy to go through life without stretching. After all, a traditional workday can involve eight hours sitting at a desk, an hour or so of commuting, sitting in front of the TV, and so on. Even ...

Flexibility is very important, especially as we get older. Here are some basic, everyday stretches to improve and maintain your flexibility. Business Insider has illustrated and animated the stretches ...

If bending over to touch your toes seems like an impossible task, it may be time to start thinking about increasing your flexibility. From breath work to stretching to strengthening, focused effort ...

When it comes to stretching out your muscles, there are a lot of options to choose from. To boil it down, we turned to Marilyn Moffat, a professor of physical therapy at New York University and the ...