Fitness: General flexibility
Mon 27 Jul, 5:00 pm BST
Stretching is key to maintaining fitness
Flexibility is the range of mobility around a joint and the muscle that surrounds it. Flexibility training should reduce the risk of injury, create a good range of movement, improve the movement around the joint, reduce muscular ache, increase co-ordination and increase blood flow circulation.
A strength and conditioning expert or physiotherapist will be able to test all your muscles for flexibility, but here are a few basic tests to get started.
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