Worlds Greatest Stretch

The world’s greatest stretch is a full body mobility flow that opens the hips, spine, and hamstrings. Learn how to do the world’s greatest stretch with proper form.

Forward Fold with Shoulder Opener

Learn how to do the Forward Fold with Shoulder Opener to stretch your hamstrings, spine, shoulders, and chest. Improve posture, relieve tension, and build flexibility with this full-body mobility exercise—ideal for women over 40.

Standing Hamstring Stretch

Standing Hamstring Stretch

Learn how to do the standing hamstring stretch with proper form. This no-equipment stretch targets the hamstrings, calves, and glutes while helping improve posterior-chain flexibility.

Samson Stretch Samson Lunge

Samson Stretch | Samson Lunge with Shoulder Opener

Learn how to do the Samson stretch with shoulder opener, also called a Samson lunge. This mobility drill opens the hip flexors, quadriceps, chest, and shoulders while improving lunge control, posture awareness, and full-body mobility without forcing range.

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Seated Straddle Stretch Upavistha Konasana

Learn how to do the seated straddle stretch, also known as Upavistha Konasana. This wide-angle seated mobility stretch targets the inner thighs, adductors, hamstrings, hips, and side body with form cues, modifications, photos, and FAQs.

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Standing Hamstring Stretch

Standing hamstring stretch, also called the scissor stretch, targets the hamstrings to improve flexibility and range of motion, reduce stiffness, and support performance. Here is how to do the standing hamstring stretch with proper form, plus modifications, how long to hold it, and the muscles it works.

Pike Stretch

Pike Stretch Seated Pike Stretch

Learn how to do the seated pike stretch for hamstring, calf, glute, and posterior-chain mobility. Includes proper hip-hinge form, flexed-foot variation, modifications, sets and holds, mistakes to avoid, and FAQs for improving your pike stretch safely.

Cross Body Shoulder Stretch

Cross Body Shoulder Stretch | Delt Lat Stretch

The cross body shoulder stretch releases tension in the back of the shoulder and upper lat using nothing more than your own two arms. Here is how to do it with proper form, plus how long to hold it, the muscles involved, and why the research backs it up.

Standing Side Bend

Standing Side Bend Standing Side Stretch

Learn how to do the standing side bend stretch, also called a standing side stretch or overhead side bend. This simple mobility move opens the obliques, lats, quadratus lumborum, ribs, shoulders, and side body.

Seated Shoulder Stretch for Flexibility

Floor Shoulder Stretch for Flexibility

Floor shoulder stretch for flexibility opens the chest and front shoulders from a seated position. Learn proper setup, muscles stretched, hold times, modifications, and common mistakes.

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Overhead Tricep Stretch

Overhead tricep stretch guide for women covering proper form, triceps anatomy, how long to hold the stretch, modifications, and common mistakes.

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Chest Bicep Stretch

The chest bicep stretch is a simple upper-body stretch that opens the chest, biceps, and front of the shoulders. Learn proper form, how long to hold it, and how to use it before or after training.

InchWorm Exercise Benefits

Inchworm Exercise

The inch worm exercise is ideally used as part of your warm up to safely stretch out your hamstrings, calves and all the way up the back of your legs. In fact, head to any Crossfit gym and you are likely to see it being used as part of a dynamic warm up.

Bent Over Calf Stretch with Julie Lohre

Bent Over Calf Stretch

Julie Lohre, fat loss coach, demonstrates the Bent Over Calf Stretch Bent Over Calf Stretch was last modified: March 7th, 2023 by Julie Lohre

Extended Side Angle Full

Learn how to do Extended Side Angle Full, the deeper progression of Extended Side Angle. This advanced yoga variation opens the hips, groin, chest, shoulders, and side body.

Extended Side Angle

Learn how to do Extended Side Angle with proper form. This standing yoga pose strengthens the legs while opening the hips, groin, chest, shoulders, and side body.

Extended Yoga Triangle

Extended yoga triangle, known in Sanskrit as Utthita Trikonasana, is a standing lateral stretch that opens the hamstrings, hips, and obliques while building leg strength and better balance. This exercise library page covers proper form, muscles stretched, how to program the pose, common mistakes, and safe modifications for women who want to protect mobility and posture as they age.

Forward Fold Stretch

Forward Fold

The forward fold, also called the standing pike stretch or uttanasana, lengthens your hamstrings, calves, and lower back from a simple standing position. Here is how to do it with proper form, how long to hold it, and modifications to make it work for you.

Inner Thigh Stretch

Learn how to do the inner thigh stretch with shoulder rotation, a dynamic mobility drill that opens the adductors, hips, glutes, upper back, and shoulders. Includes step-by-step form cues, mistakes to avoid, sets and reps, modifications, FAQs, and safe coaching tips for women over 40.

Inner Thigh and Calf Strech

Inner Thigh and Calf Stretch

The following inner thigh stretch can be done to boost flexibility and range of motion, and to help your muscles relax after working out. Added benefit of this stretch is that it also stretches your calf muscles