Why Touching Your Toes is Important:

Flexibility training is perhaps the most undervalued component of conditioning. While recent and ongoing debate questions its role in injure prevention,your health can still gain much from a stretching regime. The body's muscles and joints play an integral part in movement. In general terms, flexibility has been defined as the range of motion about a joint and its surrounding muscles during a passive movement. Passive in this context means no active muscle movement is required to hold the stretch. Instead gravity or a partner provides the force for the stretch.