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FEET FITNESS?
What About Your Feet? Well for starters your feet maybe holding you back from becoming stronger. You’ve probably never considered or really thought about the important role your feet play every day until something goes wrong with them. Your body base support is based on your feet and also supports the bulk of the body workload. So Yes, Feet Fitness is a Critical part of your fitness program that should be taken seriously. To make matters worse, when our feet start to hurt we are typically advised to wear rigid orthotics or “ultra-supportive”, inflexible shoes to help support our feet. Unfortunately, binding up your feet like this interferes with or even eliminates their ability to move. Less movement (or poor movement) leads to more weakness.
Orthotics are like crutches… they may take the pressure off while you are using them, but they do not correct the underlying weakness. If you had weak hands or sore wrists would you start wearing wrist wraps and rigid hand splints every day? I hope not. You would perform mobility and strengthening exercises to restore proper function to your hands. Well, your feet typically weight bear all day long, which makes it even more crucial to focus on strengthening their weaknesses rather than “bracing” them externally! The chart on the right will provide you with some basic foot exercises that can help you “fix” your feet, heal old injuries, improve your posture. Chart is curtisey of: www.healthdigeZst.com
Strengthen
your Feet & Ankle Muscles
Our feet and ankles are very important, considering we couldn’t stand, walk, run, Unfortunately, our lower limbs tend to be neglected unless something goes wrong.
Strong and flexible feet, ankles, and calves provide our base for stable movement, and are essential for performing our daily activities without pain or strain.