There is a saying that “tendons grow an inch, life extension of ten years”, meaning that the tendons are good, can enhance the body’s immunity, so as to achieve the effect of prolonging life. Although the saying is exaggerated, but the importance of tendons to health is self-evident. How are your tendons? How to properly stretch the tendons? Chinese medicine refers to the skin, flesh, tendons, bones and veins as the “five bodies”. Modern medicine refers to the soft tissues as being similar to the tendons. Whether it is the traditional Chinese fitness qigong Yi Jin Jing, Five Animal Play, Eight Duan Jin, Taijiquan, or modern gymnastics, fitness exercises, and even the popular yoga, there are a lot of stretching fitness steps. You may want to do a self-check first: are you sore when you bend over? When squatting, is it smooth? When walking, the tendons in the heel area have radioactive traction pain or not? When walking with others, do you feel that your pace is not always big? If you have the above-mentioned problems, you may have “hamstring shrinkage”, to put it plainly, your hamstring lack of flexibility, especially those who like to walk by car, like to sit all day without exercise friends should pay more attention. If you exclude the above problems caused by other diseases, you should try “stretching” exercise. This will help to keep the tendons alive and maintain the health of the tendons and veins, thus improving physical fitness and prolonging life. “Stretching” exercise on the site requirements are not very high, the following for you to recommend two relatively simple “stretching” exercise methods: the first method is the “Yi Jin Jing” the third posture of the “palm to the door of heaven “: two feet open, toes on the ground, heel lift; hands raised high above the head, palm up, two middle fingers 3 cm apart; sink shoulders and bend elbows, tilt the head, eyes on the back of the palm. Tongue licking the palate, nasal breath to harmonize. Inhale, the two hands with dark strength to try to hold up, the two legs at the same time hard down stirrups; exhale, the whole body relaxed, the two palms turned forward down. When closing, the two palms become fists, the back of the fist forward, the upper limbs will slowly close the two fists to the waist, the fist heart up, the heel of the foot on the ground. Repeat 8~20 times. The second method is: use the door frame of your own home, hands up, hold both sides of the door frame, try to stretch your arms; one foot in front, stand lunge, the other foot in the back, legs as straight as possible; body exactly parallel to the door frame, head upright, eyes forward flat; stand in this position for 3 minutes, then change a leg to stand lunge, also 3 minutes. It should be noted that hypertension, heart disease, osteoporosis, long-term frailty, the first recovery from a serious illness, etc., must follow medical advice, do not do this exercise without authorization, so as not to be counterproductive.