mlm opportunity network marketing - Fitness Flexibility: How's Your Flexibility?

The ability to move joints freely and without pain through a wide range of motion is an important component of physical fitness. Improving flexibility isn't hard; stretching will do it, says the American College of Sports Medicine. How flexible should you be for your age and gender? The ACSM Fitness Book endorses this test.

Warm up before you begin; Walk slowly and increase your pace until you feel warm. Do some gentle stretches to loosen your back and leg muscles.

The Flexibility Test

Place a yardstick on the floor with the zero mark closest to you. Tape the yardstick to the floor at the 15-inch mark. Have a friend help keep your legs straight during the test but not interfere with your movements.
Sit on the floor with the yardstick between your extended legs, feet about 10 inches apart and heels at the 15-inch mark.
Place one hand over the other with one middle finger on top of the other.
Slowly stretch forward without jerking or bouncing, and slide your fingertips along the yardstick as far as possible.
Do the test three times. Your score is the highest number you reach, to the nearest inch.