Flexibility & Mobility
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5 Stretches to Help Your Pickleball Game
A Dynamic Stretch Specialist on the importance of prioritizing your flexibility and mobility to reduce the risk of pickleball injuries.
The Challenges of Self-Diagnosing Hypermobility
It may be tempting to self-diagnose a condition, but it’s best to find an experienced clinician. Here’s why.
Why Treating Hypermobility Is Important to Your Overall Health
Hypermobility can lead to a host of health conditions and chronic pain. Here are some things to know and some treatment approaches to consider.
What Are the 3 Phases of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder?
Researchers have outlined three distinct phases: hypermobility, pain, and joint stiffening.
Which Health Conditions Are Associated With Hypermobility?
Fatigue, brain fog, digestive issues, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) are just some of the surprising health issues associated with hypermobile Ehlers-Danos syndrome.
5 Ways to Improve Your Posture and Balance
A Dynamic Personal Trainer offers tips for working on your posture and balance so you can reduce the risk of falling.
What Is Hypermobility?
Learn about the difference between flexibility and hypermobility — as well as the associated health risks of hypermobility.
Why Dynamic Stretch?
Dynamic Stretch is Life Time’s unique approach to one-on-one, assisted-stretch sessions — but what does this protocol actually entail? And how is working with a stretch specialist different than stretching on your own? Danny King, Master Trainer, explains Dynamic Stretch and the support it delivers for improved function, mobility, and performance.
What Is Connective-Tissue Disorder?
We often think of flexibility as a mark of fitness, but for some, hypermobility can raise challenges — and signal a connective-tissue disorder that may involve a range of chronic health issues. Here’s what you need to know.
What Is Dynamic Stretch?
How an assisted-stretch session at Life Time can help you feel better and reach your fitness goals.
8 Strength Exercises for Pickleball Players
These workout-floor movements can increase your strength and mobility, safeguard against injury, and improve your pickleball prowess on the court.
3 Moves You’ll See in SURRENDER Yoga
In combination with meditative breathing, these long-held stretches are designed to relieve tension in your body and mind.
6 Signs You May Have a Pinched Nerve
A chiropractor outlines common symptoms of pinched nerves, what to do if you have one, and how to prevent them.
How to Flow Through Sun Salutation
A guide to the movements and poses inside the flow of sun salutation A.
The Importance of Maintaining Mobility as You Age
Mobility is a critical component of aging well. Experts explain how to maintain it for the long haul.
Strength, Mobility, Balance: Introducing ARORA Fit
A Q&A with the creators of the new signature group training format that’s designed for active older adults.
How Can a Chiropractor Help Me Reach My Fitness Goals?
A LifeClinic practitioner explains the connections between regular, preventative chiropractic care and fitness progress.
How to Relieve a Stiff Neck
Simple strategies for addressing and preventing discomfort in your neck.
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.
How to Do the Arm Bar
Improve shoulder and thoracic-spine mobility with this unilateral move.
9 Do-Anywhere Stretches to Ease Back Pain
Try these neck, shoulder, and back stretches when you’re feeling achy.