The following are three ways to test your flexibility. The idea of testing is to become aware that tightness in certain muscle groups can lead to injury if you are not careful during fitness workouts.

Flexibility tends to decrease as we age, so Brazilian researchers devised a test they say may determine mortality risk. Getty Images If you want to live longer, flexibility exercises might be a step ...

There’s one in every yoga or Pilates class: The person next to you who can contort his or her body into a pretzel-like state, while you’re breaking a sweat just trying to touch your toes. It can be ...

Touching your toes is probably the most popular hamstring stretch—but it's also the most misunderstood. Too often, guys round their backs to reach their feet, and that takes tension off the hamstrings ...

A new study called the sitting-rising test gives an indication of your balance, strength and flexibility. Squats are a great exercise for building lower body strength. Photo / Gritchelle Fallesgon, ...

Learning to touch your toes can increase your flexibility. Tips to learn how include stretching, foam rolling, and engaging in resistance training such as squats. Learn about some common stretches ...

Quick, try this: Sit down on the floor, then get back up using as little support as possible. (No hands!) How’d you do? According to a new study in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, your ...

In addition to regularly moving, reducing stress, and eating nutritious, whole foods, there’s another essential element to aging well: Flexibility. A recent long-term study found that being more ...

How do you feel when you turn your head or touch your toes? Your ability to do that comes from flexibility. so health and fitness expert Beth Oliver joined us to share a series of tests to see how ...