Flexibility & Mobility
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5 Stretches to Promote Recovery and Stress Relief
A stretch specialist demonstrates a few moves that can relieve muscle tension and counter stress.
Dynamic Duo: 3 Stretches to Do With a Partner
A stretch specialist outlines the benefits of assisted stretching and demonstrates three options you can try with a partner.
Sleep, Sweat, Repeat: 4 Workouts You Could Do Over and Over
Experience Life‘s fitness editor weighs in on routines you could turn to time and time again.
ONE HEALTHY HABIT: Sit on the Floor Daily
Support your health, mobility, and longevity by regularly getting down on the ground and then rising from it.
6 Tips for Using a Standing Workstation
Consider these tips when you’re setting up a standing workstation.
5 Healthy-Aging Benefits of Barre
The creator of ARORA Barre on the advantages of this exercise format for active older adults.
Been Sitting Too Long? Try These 2 Moves
You can do these two mobility exercises at or next to your desk to balance out the effects of sitting.
How to Do the Reverse Burpee
This playful variation on a classic exercise delivers similar strength and cardio benefits — minus the pushup.
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 meditation 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.