How Flexible Are You?
Here are three simple tests to gauge your current flexibility level:
1. Lower Body Flexibility
- Sit on a chair with your back straight.
- Keep one foot on the floor and raise the other leg to be parallel to the floor.
- If you can raise your leg to thigh height without shift position or raising your other foot you have a decent range of motion in your lower body.
2. Upper Body Flexibility
High Blood Pressure and Flexibility – What do they have to do with each other?
Flexibility refers to the ability of your joints to move through a full range of motion. How flexible you are in a particular joint is connected to the muscle length that attaches to that joint and how far that muscle will stretch. Having flexibility in your muscles allows for greater movement around joints. The shorter and less flexible the muscle, the tighter the joint.
What Does Flexibility Have to Do with High Blood Pressure?
