Wake up, get moving and feel great all day! Cassy Vieth has a Quick Fit routine you can follow anytime you start to feel stiff (especially first thing in the morning!) These expansive, whole-body ...

Gyrotonic is a whole-body, mind-body exercise that uses circular, spiraling sequences with breath to build strength, balance, flexibility, and movement efficiency. It moves joints through full range ...

The history of purposeful stretching can be traced back many centuries. Stretching was used by soldiers and competitors in the Greek and Roman empires, as well as in ancient yoga and martial arts ...

Qin Zhu, a UW professor of kinesiology and health, poses next to a webcam setup showing master’s student Jason Feng standing next to a motion-capture suit on a mannequin. Zhu led a recent study that ...

In a fruit fly, nerve cells that detect limb movement are silenced when the insect walks or grooms. This on-off switch may help the nervous system to shift between two states: one helps keep the body ...

Coronal plane movements go side to side, like abduction and adduction, plus elevation and depression of the shoulder blade. Exercises include jumping jacks, side lunges, and lateral raises. Sagittal ...