A practical guide for Links Beat readers, written from everyday experience.
Long hours in a chair tighten the hip flexors, round the shoulders and stiffen the neck. Five gentle stretches, held for thirty seconds each, undo most of that in under five minutes: a standing hip-flexor lunge, a doorway chest stretch, a seated spinal twist, a chin tuck for the neck and a calf stretch against the wall. None of them need equipment.