Active Aging is weekly series that provides wellness tips and creative living ideas for the active aging lifestyle. Maintaining flexibility is an important part of a healthy, active aging lifestyle.

Dear Savvy Senior: Can you offer some good stretching tips for seniors who are staying home during the pandemic? I’ve gotten so stiff and achy in recent years that I have a hard time doing basic ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — For many of us, stretching is just as important–if not more–than the planned exercises themselves. Madeline Ball is the district manager at Portland’s Stretch Lab. She joined ...

Jamelah McGill, the creator of Mind Over Impulse Fitness, shared tips on how stretching can help relieve stress, especially heading into the weekend. McGill emphasized the importance of stretching for ...

Patrick Fernandez, a flexologist with StretchLab's location on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, appeared on "Fox & Friends" in 2022 to share smart tips and stretching ideas for the holiday period and ...

If you want to include stretching as part of your exercise routine, make sure you do it safely and effectively using proper technique. Stretching incorrectly can actually do more harm than good! Use ...

If you're looking for stretching tips to incorporate more stretching into your fitness regimen, hear why one trainer says to work it in throughout your workout. If you ever happen to spy on me as I ...

Rolling out of bed and walking 10 steps to begin a workday may be setting people up to developing neck and back pain, according to a Northern Virginia spinal surgeon who has tips to help keep those ...

Everyone who exercises regularly is aware they should warm up prior to jumping into their workout. But should the warm-up include stretching? The common belief is that stretching makes you more ...

Q: Can you offer some good stretching tips for seniors who are staying home during the pandemic? I've gotten so stiff and achy in recent years that I have a hard time doing basic activities like ...

Now, I know better: that break time should really be spent stretching. "It's using time while you're resting to get energy for your next exercise—you might as well be stretching, because you're every ...