Mobility for Healthy Aging
Learn more about the importance of mobility at any age by exploring the following articles and exercises to improve mobility in your hips, ankles, shoulders, and elsewhere.
Full Body ⋅ Shoulders ⋅ Back ⋅ Hips ⋅ Ankles & Feet
Full Body
The Stretching and Mobility Workout
This head-to-toe routine will stretch your muscles, mobilize your joints, and leave you feeling fantastic in five minutes flat.
6 Exercises to Help You Get Down on the Floor — and Up off the Floor — With Ease
Have you done a sit-stand test? The ability to get up off the floor with minimal support is a marker of longevity. Practice these moves to improve flexibility, balance, motor coordination, and muscle power.
Shoulders
Exercises for Shoulder Pain: Keeping Your Shoulders Mobile and Strong
Increasing mobility and strength in your shoulders can eliminate pain, improve athletic performance, and enhance your overall quality of life.
Fitness Fix: Improve Your Shoulder Mobility
2 exercises to improve your shoulder mobility.
Fitness Fix: Weak, Unstable Shoulder Blades
Try these three moves to help strengthen your scapulae.
A 5-Minute Workout to Protect Your Shoulders
Restore mobility — and protect yourself from injury — with this short upper-body warm-up.
Back
8 Moves to Boost Back Resiliency
Relieve your sore spine with these accessible exercises.
Exercises for Lower-Back Pain
Lower-back pain might get you down, but it doesn’t have to take you out. This program can keep you moving to come back stronger than ever.
3 Exercises for an Immobile Thoracic Spine
Immobility in your thoracic spine can send pain into your shoulders, neck or lower back. Here’s how to correct the problem.
4 Rotational Stretches to Ease Back Tension
Rotate your spine safely — and reduce back tension — with these four stretches.
Hips
Why Your Hips Matter
Hip problems can affect your lower back, knees, ankles, and feet. Here’s why.
3 Hip-Flexor Stretches for Mobility
Whether you spend your days doing heavy squats, cycling long distances, or sitting at a desk, chances are your hips could use some extra attention.
Fitness Fix: Improve Your Hip Mobility
Exercises to improve hip mobility.
6 Hip Stretches to Improve Mobility and Strength
Keep your hips strong, mobile, and fit for a lifetime with these stretching and strength drills.
Ankles & Feet
3 Ankle-Mobility Exercises
Three drills to loosen up your ankles and their kinetic chain.
Fitness Fix: Building Better Ankle Mobility
Think you can’t squat because of a bad back? Tight hips? Weak knees? You may want to look lower down in the kinetic chain — the problem may just be tight ankles.
5 Exercises to Build Strong Feet
Here are five strength and mobility moves for fit feet.
6 Stretches for Sore Feet
Relieve foot pain with these six simple stretches.