Touching your toes is probably the most popular hamstring stretch—but it's also the most misunderstood. Too often, guys round their backs to reach their feet, and that takes tension off the hamstrings ...

Distance runners are prone to tight hamstrings, which can limit performance, cause back pain and lead to overuse injuries. Josh Glass, a USATF team chiropractor in 2009 and 2011, recommends testing ...

How do you feel when you turn your head or touch your toes? Your ability to do that comes from flexibility. so health and fitness expert Beth Oliver joined us to share a series of tests to see how ...

Natalia Perez-Segnini is a NASM-certified personal trainer, a yoga instructor, a breathwork practitioner and a trauma-informed specialist. As a head coach at Tone House—a premier athletic-based ...

Tight hamstrings are a common complaint among my personal training clients. I understand the struggle firsthand, as I also have to stretch this muscle regularly. But according to Dr Neal Scibelli, a ...

Struggling with tight hips, sore hamstrings, or lower back pain? This one simple yoga pose — Reclined Pigeon (Supta ...

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 ...

If you can’t touch your toes without majorly bending your knees, that’s a sure sign you could benefit from doing hamstring stretches. But even if you can touch your toes easily, you should still be ...

Dana Santas, known as the “Mobility Maker,” is a certified strength and conditioning specialist and mind-body coach in professional sports. She is also the author of “Practical Solutions for Back Pain ...