Can you Touch Your Toes without Bending? Here are Some Insights on Flexibility

So, you go to the park every day and try exercises but still not being able to perform many? The issue is flexibility! Inflexibility is unfavourable to the overall health and body and it also comes in between the process of exercising while hindering the quality of workouts too.

Somehow or other many of us struggle to proliferate the flexibility in our bodies. 

Inflexibility not only hampers the quality of workouts but it also makes us more prone to injuries. So, to deal with this issue of inflexibility is as important as indulging in some form of exercises. If you are one of those who are tired of bad flexibility then we have some good news for you. With this little guide, you can escalate your flexibility speedily and progressively. Obviously, it will take some time and the magic will not happen overnight but if you are going in the right way then you will definitely notice more mobility and movement in your muscles.

We have the perfect ways for you that definitely increase flexibility in lesser days and in just a few minutes. But before getting started we are going to tell you one simple trick that one should swear by ‘a commitment to the stretching is a must.’

Start with some warm up stretching: This will warm up your body and make it ready for some stretching exercises. Warm-up for approximately 2 minutes is good to go. You can involve various exercises like burpees, lunges, squats and jumping Jacks. These warm-up exercises are great for the beginning of a daily warm up exercise and try to not pause in while doing it. Start with 5 full burpees, then 5 lunges with each leg, 10 squats and 20 jumping jacks and you are ready to go.

Stretch your upper body: Most of you focus on the lower body while stretching but let us tell you that stretching your upper body is more important than stretching the lower body. 3 minutes stretch of the upper body is great and can help to increase the flexibility, strengthen muscles and relax the overall body.  Here are some of the simple exercises that will help. Try to do two sets of these exercises and stand by it every day.

• Simple neck stretch
• Chest stretch
• Shoulder stretch a
• Should stretch B

Stretch your back gently: Just borrow down some simple movements from the yoga and start practicing it. Stretch out your back to magnify the flexibility. Don’t force anything just try to do it as much as possible in starting and then gradually increase. Start with the 2 minutes 30 seconds and then increase your time. Add these following exercises and notice the changes in one week.  

• Cat-cow
• Supine twists
• Lower back

Stretch your lower body: This should be the longest stretch. You should do it for 3 minutes on a regular basis. These three minutes will help you in increasing the flexibility of the hips, quads, hamstrings, and calves. Add these types of stretches to get effective results. 

• Hip Flexor Stretch
• Inclined Glute, Hamstring & Calf Stretch
• Quad stretch

Takeaway

To touch your toes without bending, you have to increase your flexibility by stand by adding these stretching exercises in your lifestyle. Remember to regularly perform it otherwise you won’t notice any shift in your flexibility levels.