Flexibility Fridays: Improve Core Flexibility With Yoga
Every Friday during the month of February, Dana Santas, founder and director of Radius Yoga Conditioning (RYC), who has worked with more than 18 teams across the NBA, MLB, NFL, [...]
Improve Flexibility for Tennis With Yoga
Most tennis players have grown up practicing the same drills since they could hold a racquet. Although these drills are crucial to success, there's always room for an alternate workout. [...]
Enhance Flexibility and Reduce Post-Exercise Pain
Massage breaks up tightness within muscles by applying pressure from different angles. It is great for helping muscles recover, improving mobility and flexibility, and reducing aches and pains from training and competition—all of [...]
Improve Flexibility With Four Foam Rolling Exercises
Foam rolling before and after training is a performance-enhancing technique similar to massage. Both reduce the tightness in fibrous tissue and muscles by applying pressure to them [read our previous [...]
Improve Shoulder Flexibility With the Rotater
Shoulder flexibility is critical in almost all sports, especially those involving throwing and serving. After heavy use, the shoulder's range of motion can be limited by muscle tightness. The Rotater, [...]
Prevent Knee Injuries With Increased Ankle Flexibility
Knee injuries have always plagued athletes. Unfortunately, they are particularly difficult to diagnose, in part because the source of your knee pain could be elsewhere in your body. In particular, [...]
Hamstring Strength and Flexibility Series
For you to sprint as quickly as possibly, all your lower body muscles must contribute to stride power. This includes the hamstrings, which are often overlooked during training, resulting in [...]
Increase Your Hip Flexibility for Speed and Agility With Dwyane Wade
A key component of speed and change-of-direction ability is hip flexibility, which allows an athlete to achieve effective power angles and explode through the ground when cutting. It’s no wonder [...]
Improve Flexibility With Hydration
Of all the questions STACK receives from its readers and viewers, one of the most common is: "How do I improve my flexibility?" Active warm-ups and post-activity stretching may be [...]
Shoulder Flexibility for Wrestlers
Stretching is particularly important in wrestling, since you need to be flexible to to win matches and to resist opponents' attempts to pin your shoulders in awkward positions, which can [...]