How long you can balance on one leg may be an important indicator of health and how well you’re aging, a new study finds.

The lack of floor or bench-based exercises means the workout is wrist-friendly and makes for a welcome break from classic ...

In her latest column, Gretchen Reynolds writes about a large new study of more than 83,000 adults that found that standing ...

While staying standing means that you won’t do a lot of classic core exercises like the plank, crunches and sit-ups, you can still get an effective abs workout done while on two feet.

Exercises such as standing on one leg may help patients walk stairs or step onto curbs without falling, he said. “It forces the muscles to communicate to the brain to stand upright.” For those who can ...

Standing exercises are often less favoured to their floor-based counterparts but, not only can they be effective at building enviable abdominals, they can also build a rock-solid core, bettering ...

Sure, yoga can be a great low-impact exercise to boost overall health. But it turns out one pose, in particular, may show more than your flexibility. How long you can stand on one leg may be an ...

A study from UCL and the University of Sydney reveals that minor daily exercises, like stair climbing, may lower blood ...

How long you can stand on one leg — specifically ... you’re more likely to fall,” said Kenton Kaufman, the senior author of the study and a musculoskeletal research professor at Mayo ...

For the balance exercises, participants were asked to: stand on both legs with their eyes open, stand on both legs with their eyes closed and then do a single-leg stand on each leg with their eyes ...