Stretching is an excellent thing you can do for your health. These simple, yet effective moves can help you limber up for sports, improve your balance and prevent falls, increase your flexibility, and even help relieve arthritis, back, and knee pain. Whether you're an armchair athlete or a sports enthusiast, this Special Health Report, Stretching: 35 exercises to improve flexibility and reduce pain, from the experts at Harvard Medical School will show you how to create effective stretching routines that meet your needs and ability.

Stretching: 35 stretches to improve flexibility and reduce pain

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Michele Stanten

Lauren E. Elson

Exercise & Fitness

Harvard Health Publishing

This Special Health Report will help you find the perfect cardio routine whether you are just beginning, need to freshen up a routine, or are ready to take your cardio workouts to the next level. For beginners or people with conditions that limit their mobility, there are three options to start with: a Basic Cardio, Beginner's Walking, and a Pool Workout. If you're looking to add some variety to an existing cardio routine, try our Cardio Dance or Kickboxing Workout. If you've been doing cardio exercise and want to challenge yourself, try our Interval Walking Workout or Step Workout. When you're ready to move on, a Special Section will help you design your own program. No matter what form of cardio you do, you'll be healthier.

Cardio Exercise: 7 workouts to boost energy, fight disease, and help you live longer

Is joint pain holding you back? Perhaps an achy ankle or sore knee is making it difficult to enjoy a run through your favorite park or even taking a short walk. Or maybe a throbbing hip or shoulder prevents you from whacking a golf ball or performing simple tasks like carrying a bag of groceries. The exercises in this report, The Joint Pain Relief Workout: Healing exercises for your shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles, can help relieve ankle, knee, hip, or shoulder pain, and help you become more active again, which can help you stay independent long into your later years.

The Joint Pain Relief Workout: Healing exercises for your shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles

The simple activity of walking has so many powerful health benefits. Done correctly, it can be the key to losing weight, lowering blood pressure and cholesterol, and boosting your memory, as well as reducing your risk for heart disease, diabetes, cancer and more. Walking for Health, created by the experts at Harvard Medical School, takes you step-by-step from why walking may be the most perfect exercise, to how to get started on a walking program, to specific walking workouts. It even has a special section on walking for weight loss.

Walking for Health

Harvard Health Publshing

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Stretching: 35 stretches to improve flexibility and reduce pain

Cardio Exercise: 7 workouts to boost energy, fight disease, and help you live longer

The Joint Pain Relief Workout: Healing exercises for your shoulders, hips, knees, and ankles

Walking for Health