What are the best stretches and exercises to improve flexibility?

I like yoga stretches. Start first with easy postures. You can google them and choose about 3 that don’t seem too difficult. Hold them for 30 seconds and every day hold them for a little bit longer until you can hold them for a minute. When you reach the goal, choose another three. Go on raising the difficulty of the positions. If you do this everyday, in a matter of mere months you will become incredibly flexible!

Start with your largest muscles. Stretch the back of your legs by bending forward and touching your toes. Do it for 30seconds as far as you can before it hurts. Do your thighs nexts by bending your knee and holding your foot with your hand against your buttocks. Align both knees for best results. 30 seconds each leg. Youll feel refreshed after doing 3 repeats of this. Check online for a 10 minutes stretching routine. I’ve done it for 14 days in a row and I do feel a difference vs not doing it before that.

All the movements I’ve learned from my physiotherapist, to build up my core strength and stretch my hamstrings and glutes

Well, I’m not quite qualified to give advices about it. So I highly recommend to watch the related video about stretching on fabulous channel on YouTube or any other sources.

I find that a few simple yoga stretches really help in the mornings. Side bends to stretch out your back, as well as the cat/cow pose. And maybe some low lunges to give the rest of your body a stretch too

Trying to touch your toes, I am horrible with what specific stretches are called but that’s a basic one that’s really good.

I’ve found that stretching to touch your toes is the best way to improve flexibility! Whether you’re sitting or standing, it stretches your back and your legs!

The best stretches are the type where one feels the muscle and can lean into the stretch with ease, not where it feels like a strain of some sort. Larger muscles are often more concentrated on in comparison to smaller, stabilizer-muscles. It is very important to not only do the so-called “passive” stretches, but also the “active“ or “dynamic” ones, as these strengthen the muscle, and stabilize the joints, helping with posture and overall alignment. The essential stretches would be those targeting the groin, legs, spine area, abdominal area, as well as the shoulders and neck. These 5 areas are very important when working on overall mobility and it’s flexibility development would much help the smaller muscle work.

So with my condition, more flexible isn’t the result I want. I have Ehlers Danlose Hyper-mobility. What I feel stretchOmg helps with is releasing tight muscles and pressure and some pain, allowing or starting addition blood flow to them to prevent injury to a work out or help heal them.

I find that doing the pigeon stretch, which really opens the hips up and stretches the inner thighs. Any type of super low lunge