Stretching and Flexibility Exercises

Doing simple stretching exercises just two or three times a week can dramatically help you increase flexibility, improve balance, and relieve pain caused by muscle and joint stiffness. Stretching also helps prevent life-changing falls that can threaten your independence. In this interactive course, you'll learn not only about these and other benefits of stretching, but you'll find video demonstrations of more than 40 simple stretching exercises, each one emphasizing proper form. You'll also learn how to build an easy-to-follow stretching routine. Our lessons, prepared by the experts at Harvard Medical School, include interactive pages, slideshows, narrated videos, and quizzes.