For example, many of the stretching and limbering exercises that martial arts classes practice during warm-ups are derived from yoga, and these work on joints, tendons and muscles. With these ...

In our age of Pilates, yoga and martial arts, stretching seems a dated notion, recalling an era when jazzercise classes in leg-warmers were the exercise of choice.

Monday: Weights (maximum strength) + technical training in martial arts. Tuesday: Yoga or stretching + flexibility and mobility work. Wednesday: Complementary sports (swimming or climbing ...

What it’s like: Students prepare for class with traditional martial arts stretches, which entail warming the muscles in the ankles by rolling them in their sockets clockwise and counterclockwise.