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Mobility for Healthy Aging

Learn more about the importance of mobility at any age by exploring the following articles and exercises to improve mobility in your hips, ankles, shoulders, and elsewhere.

Full Body  ⋅  Shoulders   ⋅   Back   ⋅   Hips   ⋅   Ankles & Feet

Full Body

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The Stretching and Mobility Workout

By Andrew Heffernan

This head-to-toe routine will stretch your muscles, mobilize your joints, and leave you feeling fantastic in five minutes flat.

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6 Exercises to Help You Get Down on the Floor — and Up off the Floor — With Ease

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Have you done a sit-stand test? The ability to get up off the floor with minimal support is a marker of longevity. Practice these moves to improve flexibility, balance, motor coordination, and muscle power.

Shoulders

Back

a man performs a glute bridge with his heels on a foam roller

Exercises for Lower-Back Pain

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Lower-back pain might get you down, but it doesn’t have to take you out. This program can keep you moving to come back stronger than ever.

a man performs the triangle

4 Rotational Stretches to Ease Back Tension

By Andrew Heffernan

Rotate your spine safely — and reduce back tension — with these four stretches.

Hips

Ankles & Feet

a foot rolling out on a tennis ball

6 Stretches for Sore Feet

By Karla Walsh, NASM-CPT, AFAA

Relieve foot pain with these six simple stretches.

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