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When strength and flexibility reveal different aspects of fitness

I can run for miles but I can't touch my toes and I'm embarrassed by how inflexible I am compared to how fit I look.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The discovery that physical competence is not uniform challenges assumptions about what fitness means and creates unexpected vulnerability.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Movement and exercise — principles?”

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