Flexibility
Kylie Lepere
What is flexibility?
The benefits of being flexible.
Stretch hamstring muscles and increase flexibility in your hips to align pelvic bones and decrease the likelihood of back pain. The Mayo Clinic notes that a combination of flexible hips and upper legs and strong abdominal and back muscles can prevent back pain. Flexibility encourages good posture, which helps you to look, feel and move better.
2. Maximum motion- Flexible Achilles tendons protect you from tendinitis by allowing ankles the full range of motion when walking, especially uphill, or exercising. You decrease the probability of a sudden or gradual injury that could sideline you and cut into a fitness regime or send you to the bench instead of to home plate. The freer your movement, the better your performance in any physical activity.
3. Helps your heart- Flexibility protects your heart. A study published in the "American Journal of Physiology" in 2009 showed that adults aged 40 through 83 with poor flexibility had significantly more arterial stiffening. Arterial stiffness indicates an increased risk for heart disease and stroke. The test subjects in the study with high flexibility had corresponding arterial flexibility.
4. Balance emotions- The American Council on Exercise says that flexibility training, a program of dynamic and static stretches, increases physical and mental relaxation.
5. Keeps your balance- And physical balance is as important a benefit of flexibility as emotional balance. The AARP recommends that seniors tackle a strengthening and flexibility exercise program to improve balance and avoid the traumatic falls that injure and incapacitate more than a third of Americans over the age of 65 each year.
source: http://healthyliving.azcentral.com/health-benefits-can-achieve-being-flexible-1791.html
Don't want to pull anything while running
flexibility at its finest
Never make an excuse to not become more flexible it can always improve
One improves flexibility by....
Seriously it is all you need to do, there is many different types as shown in the source below.
Personal connections
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