When was the last time you gave your feet some dedicated attention? Not just a quick polish change or cramming them into those too-tight shoes, but actual loving care? For most of us, feet fall into ...

When it comes to stretching, it's easy to focus on the larger muscles of the legs: the hamstrings, hips, quads—even the glutes. But the calves? They don't get enough attention. Calves can be a bit ...

Stretching your feet should be an important part of any pre-workout warmup routine. Here are four foot stretch exercises to help you do it. If you’ve got a good pre-workout stretching routine in place ...

You stretch your hamstrings. You stretch your quads. You probably also stretch your back, especially after a long day of sitting at a desk. But did you know you should be stretching your feet, as well ...

When talking specifics, stretching terminology can get confusing. “Passive” and “static” generally refer to the same old-school method of relaxing into a stretch and holding it for 30 to 60 seconds.

Completing a daily full-body stretch routine can benefit someone’s physical and mental well-being. The routine may incorporate both static and dynamic stretches. Stretches can be either static, where ...

The goal of the study was to assess how static stretching affects performance in a relatively short running test – in this case, it was an uphill one-mile run on a treadmill at a 5% incline. The ...