FLEXIBILITY TRAINING

Training keeps the muscles and joints of the body limber. It is important for day to day activities as well as injury prevention.

Examples of flexibility training include stretching, participating in yoga, and participating in Pilates. The benefits of flexibility training are many and include:

• Improved flexibility
• Improved posture
• Long, lean muscles
• Reduced injury
• Speedier recovery from injury
• Stress reduction

Try Yoga

Yoga's popularity has surged in recent years, for good reason. It's a fantastic discipline that creates long, lean, strong muscles, promotes flexibility and counters stress. Gold's Gym offers lots of ways to get in on the trend, including The Yoga Kit, specially designed for those who've never struck a yoga pose.

What are those balls for, anyway?

Step foot in any gym today, and you'll see them: the ubiquitous fitness balls. They may look like children's toys, but are in reality incredible tools for fitness. By compelling you to balance while performing other activities (say crunches for abs), the balls force your body to engage more muscle groups at once, resulting in greater fitness in less time.