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Lying Down for Ten Minutes a Day Can Improve Your Balance and Agility

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The least athletic thing you can do turns out to be surprisingly good training. Lie flat on the floor, flex your knees, press your fingertips lightly into your abdomen, and contract against the pressure. Then, in a slow and deliberate sequence, tilt your pelvis, lift your hips slightly, and extend one leg while dorsiflexing the ankle. Do this for ten minutes. Repeat for two weeks. Researchers at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology have now shown that something close to this routine, p

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