If your focus on stretching goes no further than tying your shoelaces then the results of a new large-scale study looking at the links between flexibility and mortality may make for a sobering read.
In the first investigation of its kind, an international team of researchers from institutions including University of Leicester and the University of Eastern Finland kept track of more than 3,000 middle-aged men and women for a decade.
Claudio Gil S Araujo, lead author and director of research and education at Clinimex, an exercise medicine clinic in Rio de Janeiro where the data was collected and analysed, says that the results show that the more flexible you are, the more likely you are to live longer
Read the full story: https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/best-stretches-for-flexibility-sq6tmpc32utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1732026799
In the first investigation of its kind, an international team of researchers from institutions including University of Leicester and the University of Eastern Finland kept track of more than 3,000 middle-aged men and women for a decade.
Claudio Gil S Araujo, lead author and director of research and education at Clinimex, an exercise medicine clinic in Rio de Janeiro where the data was collected and analysed, says that the results show that the more flexible you are, the more likely you are to live longer
Read the full story: https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/article/best-stretches-for-flexibility-sq6tmpc32utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1732026799
