This classic bodyweight movement, widely used by fitness professionals in the United States, is an effective and accessible ...

Touching your toes may seem like a simple task. But actually doing it can feel like an impossible feat. Because my clients often see seated toe touches incorporated into warmup and cool down routines, ...

The challenge begins. It's Cyber Monday, which it must be said is not the quietest time of the year for me. I'm working from ...

Flexibility requires you to do certain exercises if you want to stay mobile as you age. Even if you're naturally flexible, maintaining it becomes more challenging as you age. You may be surprised to ...

Touching your toes takes hamstring flexibility. (Photo illustration: Alex Cochran for Yahoo News; photo: Getty Images) Reaching down to the ground to touch your toes can feel very satisfying. It’s an ...

Bodyweight exercises can pack a serious punch, but take a note from ballerinas if you want to bring your workout to the next level by doing exercises for stability on your toes. Erin Gregory, Gold’s ...

Remember that Winnie the Pooh exercise song? "Up, down, touch the ground," it went. Even self-proclaimed "short and fat" Pooh can touch his toes—something seen as the ultimate sign of flexibility. But ...

At some point in your life, you've probably locked your legs and bent over to see how close your fingertips can get to your feet. The toe-touch test has been a staple of fitness for many decades and ...

Reaching down to the ground to touch your toes can feel very satisfying. It’s an easy way to wake up the muscles in your lower back, hamstring and calves, as well as get a great stretch in your spine ...

Confession: I hate stretching, and I haven’t been able to touch my toes in years. For a while, I shrugged off my lack of flexibility as a minor problem in the grand scheme of my overall fitness.