To strengthen the front-​arm muscles (biceps), which are your main lift­ing and car­ry­ing muscles. Everyday bene­fits include car­ry­ing bags of shop­ping, lift­ing cases into and out of the car boot, car­ry­ing heavy stuff in the garden, pick­ing up and car­ry­ing a pet or baby, or lift­ing a tur­key from the oven...

All stretches help to lengthen spe­cific muscles, keep­ing the body in bal­ance, pre­vent­ing par­tic­u­lar muscles from becom­ing very tight and crampy, and keep­ing you more flex­ible. This one is for the backs of your lower legs...

Tight calf muscles can be pain­ful and make it harder to walk prop­erly. All stretches help to lengthen muscles, keep­ing the body in bal­ance, pre­vent­ing par­tic­u­lar muscles from becom­ing very tight and crampy, and keep­ing you more flex­ible...

All stretches help to lengthen spe­cific muscles, keep­ing the body in bal­ance, pre­vent­ing par­tic­u­lar muscles from becom­ing very tight and crampy, and keep­ing you more flex­ible. This stretch helps guard against a hunched-​over pos­ture and helps you to reach your arms back­wards, for example to do up a zip...

To strengthens the but­tock muscles that sup­port stand­ing up, walk­ing and run­ning...

To strengthen the calf muscles (backs of lower legs), which is import­ant for proper walk­ing, run­ning, or push­ing up on to tip­toes (eg, to reach some­thing). Also helps sharpen your stand­ing bal­ance...

To strengthens the inner-​thigh muscles. This makes it easier for you to keep your knees prop­erly lined up when you are sit­ting, stand­ing or mov­ing around. Also helps to keep your pelvic-​floor muscles work­ing prop­erly...