“Adduction” refers to bringing parts of your body (in this case, your legs) toward your body’s midline. Think of adduction as “adding” a body part to your center. Your adductors consist of 5 muscles: ...

You practice quad stretches all the time in yoga, whether you’re aware that’s what you’re doing or not. But you might be more familiar with its opposite action, quad contraction--you know, that ...

A few stretches in bed, a walk during your lunch break, a short yoga class— it all counts towards moving your body.

If your body is officially as tight and stiff as the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz, one of the best things you can do is pull out a yoga mat. When you’re flowing through multiple bendy poses (or ...

The hip joint bears a lot of our body weight during movement and sitting all day puts pressure on the area, too. This static position causes the muscles to tighten, which can lead to discomfort that ...