Doing the right stretches to help your body cool down reduces your risk of injury, combats post-workout soreness and helps your body recover faster. Just as a warm up readies the body for exertion ...

Before you rush off to the shower and then conquer the rest of your to-do list, take a few minutes to cool-down with these simple post-exercise stretches. According to the fitness trainer Chiara ...

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A fitness trainer explains why cool downs are an essential part of any workout, and tells us a couple of her favourite stretches to try ourselves. It may be the last thing you want to do after you ...

The cool down involves the first two parts of the warm up, light aerobic exercise and gentle stretching. Usually you don't need to complete the third part of the warm up during the cool down.

Passive static stretches involve extending a muscle using gravity or other stretching tools. This technique can look like folding forward to stretch the hamstrings, allowing gravity to pull the upper ...

If you’d like to try a shorter session, this 20-minute dumbbell workout is great for your legs and glutes, or if you don’t have dumbbells you could try this 40-minute lower-body workout that just uses ...