You might think you’d know whether you’re physically flexible or not. But flexibility can differ throughout the body. Among the places where it really counts are the hamstrings and lower back ...

Sit and Reach Test. Exercise physiologists and fitness trainers may use the sit and reach test—which measures lower back and hamstring flexibility—to assess your baseline flexibility.Repeating ...

Take these 6 expert-backed flexibility tests to see if your joints are 20 years younger—plus tips to improve tight, stiff ...

Sit on the floor with your feet flat against the side of the box. 3. Keeping your legs straight, put one hand on top of the other and stretch forward as far as you can over the yardstick.

Physiologists measured trunk flexibility through a “sit-and-reach” test. The person sits on the floor with hips, back, and head against the wall and legs held out straight in front by a ...

Background: The sit and reach test is the most common flexibility test used in health related fitness test batteries. Objective: To examine and compare three different sit and reach tests as a measure ...

The back-saver sit and reach is an optional item in the six-part test, meant to measure flexibility—students stretch out one leg as far as they can and reach out, ...

A study in the American Journal of Physiology has found that, among people 40 years old and older, performance on the sit-and-reach test could be used to assess the flexibility of the arteries ...

Maybe you used to be bendier than Gumby–or maybe you dreaded the sit-and-reach test every year in school. Whatever your current flexibility (or lack thereof), it’s all too easy to believe your ...

Sit and reach. The test: Take your shoes off and sit with your legs straight against a sit-and-reach ruler box. Lean as far forward as possible.