UCLA Health Experts Reveal The Secrets to Staying Fit and Flexible for Life!
No matter what your age, it’s important to pay attention to your flexibility, the range of motion through which a joint and surrounding muscles, ligaments and tendons move. When your muscles and joints are tight and stiff, they lose their flexibility and can become prone to tears, aches and pains.
This is especially true for those of us over 50, the age when we often start noticing it’s harder to bend, reach, twist and turn, or even walk.
The good news is you can improve your flexibility to strengthen your muscles and joints, restore range of motion, boost your balance and coordination, and lower your risk of sprains, strains, and falls.
To help you get started, the exercise specialists and physical therapists at UCLA Health created Easy Exercises for Flexibility. This special report is filled with expert advice and targeted exercises for every area of your body that you can easily do at home.
You’ll discover the best times to work on flexibility, how often to do the exercises, how long you should hold each stretch as well as the recommended number of repetitions to do for optimal results.
You’ll get a section of 21 Flexibility Exercise “Packages” with moves and stretches designed specifically for a variety of sports and activities that will help you boost performance and reduce your risk of injury.
Do you sit at a desk all day? Stare at a computer? Are you behind the wheel a lot? You’ll find exercises that help fight the stiffness that comes from these common routines. Plus, this special report also gives you specific stretching routines to help relieve the pain from a stiff back or neck, aching knees, or sore feet and hips all while improving the flexibility and conditioning of these joints.
How Flexible are YOU?
Here’s a quick way to test your lower body flexibility
- Sit on the floor with your legs stretched outward.
- Keep your back flat (not rounded), bend forward at hips.
- Reach toward toes. Do not bounce or stretch to the point of pain.
- Note the distance from the tips of the middle fingers to the top of your toes.
If you can reach past your toes, you have above average lower body flexibility; if you can touch your toes you have average lower body flexibility; If you cannot touch your toes, or need to bend your knees to touch them, you have below average lower body flexibility.
And what’s great are the illustrations and diagrams showing you exactly how to do each exercise to make sure you do them correctly. You can even record your workout and track your progress in the Daily Flexibility Log, included right inside your special report.
And here’s the best part. You’ll get an Eight-Week Flexibility Workout Routine created by UCLA experts that targets your upper body, trunk and core and lower body muscles and joints. Here’s what else you’ll discover in your special report:
- The best type of exercise older adults should do now to improve flexibility,
- How coordination and balance can reduce your risk of falls, backed by research
- How flexibility-related activities protect you from major illnesses like heart disease
- The best tip for avoiding a pulled muscle in your leg
- Balance problems? You may want to give this type of yoga a try
- The type of exercise class that’s great for improving your flexibility
- The one stretch you should NEVER do unless you are an elite athlete
- Don’t be an exercise class dropout! Simple secrets to keep you motivated to stick with your program
Get the answers to all this and more. Order your copy of Easy Exercises for Flexibility right now!