Flexibility & Mobility
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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.
How to Do the Spinal Rock
Use this fun drill to mobilize your spine, massage your back, strengthen your core, and prevent injury. Plus, discover four progressive variations.
Becoming a Pilates Believer
The change the cofounder of Life Time’s ARORA program experienced after adding Pilates to her fitness regimen.
Finding My Groove Again
How a resurfaced workout playlist sparked this Life Time team member to find fitness — and joy in it — once again.
3 Moves to Stretch Your Inner Thighs
Mobilize your adductors to improve pelvic positioning and protect against inner-knee and lower-back pain.
How to Do the Seated Twist
Twisting can help stretch muscles of the torso, restore spinal mobility, stimulate circulation, and support digestion.
3 Moves to Relieve and Prevent Elbow Pain
Tennis elbow doesn’t just affect tennis players. Stay pain-free with these wrist and forearm exercises.
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.
4 Rotational Stretches to Ease Back Tension
Rotate your spine safely — and reduce back tension — with these four stretches.
4 Trapezius Muscle Stretches to Relieve Pain
Improve your neck and shoulder comfort with these simple exercises.
6 Exercises to Improve Your Posture
This 15-minute recovery workout, based on moves from the Egoscue Method, will have you standing tall and moving easy.
How to Test Your Mobility
The overhead squat is a fundamental move that can help test, assess, and improve your mobility.
How to Do a Kneeling Backbend
Known as Camel Pose in yoga, discover how to move safely into this front-body stretch for an invigorating experience.
How to Do the Cat-Cow
This two-part flow warms and unwinds the body, stretches the core, and mobilizes the entire spine.