These six stretches for beginners ease tight hamstrings, calves, and ankles and boost flexibility in the lower body. If you suffer from tight muscles, strength, and flexibility exercises could stretch and strengthen muscles and increase overall range of motion.
Your muscles, tendons, and ligaments connect across the body, which means pain in one region could start somewhere else. Most research (like this Cureus study) shows that short and tight hamstrings and calves could cause tight or painful Achilles tendons. And in many cases, lower back pain results from tight hamstrings, glutes, or hip flexor muscles.
