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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

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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.

By Andrew Heffernan

Arthritis & Joint Health At-Home Workouts

a man holds a kettlebell while standing front of a padded box

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.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Active Aging Body-Weight Workouts

Shoulders

a man holds his shoulder

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.

By Lauren Bedosky

Fitness Tips Recovery

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A 5-Minute Workout to Protect Your Shoulders

Restore mobility — and protect yourself from injury — with this short upper-body warm-up.

By Andrew Heffernan

Arthritis & Joint Health At-Home Workouts

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Fitness Fix: Improve Your Shoulder Mobility

2 exercises to improve your shoulder mobility.

By Nicole Radziszewski

Arthritis & Joint Health Fitness Tips

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Fitness Fix: Weak, Unstable Shoulder Blades

Try these three moves to help strengthen your scapulae.

By Andrew Heffernan

Arthritis & Joint Health Fitness Tips

Back

a woman holds bird dog

8 Moves to Boost Back Resiliency

Relieve your sore spine with these accessible exercises.

By Andrew Heffernan

At-Home Workouts Body-Weight Workouts

a man performs a glute bridge with his heels on a foam roller

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.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

At-Home Workouts Equipment-Based Workouts

table with rotation for upper back mobility

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.

By Matt Fitzgerald

Flexibility & Mobility Pain Relief

windmill exercise

4 Rotational Stretches to Ease Back Tension

Rotate your spine safely — and reduce back tension — with these four stretches.

By Andrew Heffernan

Body-Weight Workouts Fitness Tips

Hips

hip release technique

Fitness Fix: Improve Your Hip Mobility

Exercises to improve hip mobility.

By Andrew Heffernan

Arthritis & Joint Health Fitness Tips

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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.

By Kaelyn Riley

Arthritis & Joint Health Body-Weight Workouts

hip thruster for hip strength and 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.

By Andrew Heffernan

Active Aging Arthritis & Joint Health

Ankles & Feet

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5 Exercises to Build Strong Feet

Here are five strength and mobility moves for fit feet.

By Lauren Bedosky

Fitness Tips Workouts

a foot rolling out on a tennis ball

6 Stretches for Sore Feet

Relieve foot pain with these six simple stretches.

By Karla Walsh, NASM-CPT, AFAA

Fitness Tips Flexibility & Mobility

Calf smash for ankle mobility

3 Ankle-Mobility Exercises

Three drills to loosen up your ankles and their kinetic chain.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Arthritis & Joint Health At-Home Workouts