If You Can Touch Your Toes After 60, Your Flexibility Is Better Than Most Peers

As you age, preserving your flexibility should be a priority. Not only will it keep your joints and muscles healthy; flexibility will also help you move better, decrease your risk of injury, and help you to continue to lead a confident, independent life. Solid flexibility enables you to reach for things on a shelf, get in and out of your car, and even bend down to tie your shoes.

But how do you really know where your flexibility stands? We have a way to test it. If you can touch your toes after 60, your flexibility is better than most peers.

“Touching your toes is a basic necessity. The fascia from the feet to the head, as well as the muscles of the feet, calves, hamstrings, and back, all need to work in tandem. In addition, it requires the ability to hinge at the hips. The more these areas lack range of motion and length, the more we compensate when we move, and that’s how injury happens,” explains Brandt Passalacqua, C-IAYT...