If you do workouts that engage your lower body, odds are your hamstrings are going to feel tight and sore at some point. To relieve that annoying (and borderline painful!) tension, you should stretch ...

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Start by standing tall with feet hip-width apart. Place hands on hips and bring one foot forward with the heel on the ground. Keeping a flat back, hinge at the hips until you feel the stretch on the ...

As a health care professional, helping others can be an all-day thing, from being on the clock to friends and family at home. A demanding schedule makes it hard to pencil in some much-needed self-care ...

Performing yoga is one of the most effective ways to strengthen the hamstrings. These yoga poses can help build resilience, improve posture, and enhance overall mobility.

You may not have your sights set on an Olympic gymnastics career, but there are plenty of reasons to become more flexible—especially if you work a stationary job. There are all kinds of stretches— ...

Reaching down to the ground to touch your toes can feel very satisfying. It’s an easy way to wake up the muscles in your ...

Hamstring tightness occurs when the muscles on the back of the thighs become shortened due to injury, sitting for long periods, muscle overuse, or a history of inactivity. The hamstrings consist of ...

Let me hit you with a very controversial health statement: Stretching is just as important, if not more important, than your workout. Okay, that might not seem controversial, but you would think so ...

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Three weeks out from Grandma’s Marathon, Brigette Williams of Living Balanced shared some stretches for before and after your run. Before you hit the road, start to warm-up your hamstrings and hip ...