Are you ready for a tip that will improve your life starting right now?

If you’re over 40 and you’ve been lifting and working out since high school, swap out one day of intense training per week for a day of intense stretching.

We know you don’t want to. Nobody wants to. Lifting is fun. Training keeps you strong. Stretching sucks.

But you know what sucks more? Limited range of motion. Saying “ooohhhh” every time you get out of a chair. Feeling your knees pop and creak every time you get out of bed. Experiencing that twinge and lower back lock up when you go to put on your shoes.

Yes, all of that sucks.

Now, here’s the good news:

While most of these “products of aging” are inevitable at one time or another as we get older, how often you experience them and the intensity with which you feel them may be up to you because of two words:

Mobility and flexibility.

Neither of these things are as sexy as benching over 300 pounds into your 50s or winning your age group in a triathlon at 42, but from a day-to-day quality of life perspective, as you roll into the deeper years of midlife, the greatest ROI you’ll receive is from living pain free while maintaining a full range of motion for basic things: sitting, standing, getting up, etc…

And since you likely won’t swap out a full workout routine you love for a day of stretching, how about you start simply, tomorrow, by blocking out 5 minutes for what many physical therapists and trainers call:

The World’s Greatest Stretch

Here is a video from Squat University on how to perform the movement.

Just like The Hobbit series had one ring to rule them all, this is the one stretch to rule them all.

Hip mobility. Spine mobility. Upper body. Lower body. Shoulders. Chest. Ankles. Glutes. Hamstrings. This stretch hits everything.

Find time for it every day and you’ll notice benefits inside of a week. 

And if you want to take your stretching and recovery to the next level, we recommend the Hyperice Hypervolt massage gun: Midlife Male-approved.

Longevity

Hyperice Hypervolt 2 Pro

A release for achy muscles, whenever you want. The Hypervolt 2 Pro has a wide range of intensity levels — five in all — as well as a digital dial that makes settings easy to adjust while vibrating.

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