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Flexibility - The Anti-Aging Cure

Flexibility exercises keep you limber, enhance posture, improve strength as well as stability and increase balance especially when combined with resistance exercise.

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Flexibility - The Anti-Aging Cure

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  1. Flexibility - The Anti-Aging Cure

  2. Flexibility exercises keep you limber and enhance posture and increase your stability and balance especially when combined with resistance exercise.

  3. Several types of flexibility exercises can improve range of movement

  4. Types of Exercise That Can ImproveFlexibility Slow Movement or Dynamic Stretching Bouncing Stretches Static Stretching

  5. How Long Should a Stretch be Held? A 20%-75% maximum contraction held for 3 to 6 seconds followed by a 10 to 30 second assisted stretch is recommended for Proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation (PNF)

  6. How Many Repetitions of Stretching Exercises Should I be Doing? Repeating each flexibility exercise two to four times is efficient, with enhancement of joint range of motion occurring over the next 3 to 12 weeks.

  7. Performing stretching exercises 2 to 3 days per is all you need to increase your flexibility How Often Should Stretching Exercise be Done?

  8. When Should Stretching be Completed? Flexibility exercise is most effective when the muscle temperature is elevated through light-to-moderate cardio or endurance exercise or by using external methods such as moist heat packs or immediately after a hot bath or shower.

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