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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 ...

As kids, you can move, flip around, bend and touch your toes with ease. Flexibility is not much of a problem for children. But as we grow older, we tend to get a bit stiff, especially because of less ...

Some big stretches a day might keep the doctor away. New research uncovered a link between living longer and being more flexible. The findings suggest that proactively helping people stay limber can ...