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Foot Pain and Strengthening

5/19/2021

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Today we're working on our running mobility issues in our feet and ankles. We all know these can get stiff after miles and miles of running. We're going to work on our big toe, or our first ray. When you toe off in a run position, you have to get about 70 degrees of dorsi-flexion in your big toe. If you do not have that much flexion in your toe, you'll start see problem creep up up stream.

To prevent this, grab your favorite lacrosse ball or Yoga Tune Up ball and really warm up your plantar fascia on the bottom of your foot. After that, get into a runners stretch against a wall and focus on stretching your big toe. You can also try toe walking around your house.

At Athletes' Potential we help active adults and athletes in the Atlanta area get back to the workouts and sports they love... without surgery, stopping activities, or relying on pain medicine. Life is too short to avoid doing the things that you love.

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Foot strength is super important for runners. Our feet are what propel us forward so in order to generate a lot of power or strength in running, we have to have strong feet. Intrinsic foot strength- simply put, it's the muscles of the foot. Far too often we neglect this part of our body a lot but we need to show it some TLC.

To help us gain foot strength, we've got a simple exercise for you to try at home or the office to start building up that strength. It's called the short foot drill. We want to make our foot as short as possible. Go back and forth between squeezing that foot together and relaxing. Do about 15-20 reps at a time. Watch the video for the all tips and get after it.

At Athletes' Potential we help active adults and athletes in the Atlanta area get back to the workouts and sports they love... without surgery, stopping activities, or relying on pain medicine. Life is too short to avoid doing the things that you love.

Reach out to us at:

www.athletespotential.com
info@athletespotential.com
​470-355-2106

​Let us help you figure out to live your best active life today!
Today we're covering mobility for foot and ankle issues. If you've been struggling with this or you don't know that you have been, give these exercises a shot.

Massaging and stretching are great but there's one important technique that you might be missing. The first ray needs to be mobile! In order to be an efficient runner, you need about 70% dorsiflexion in your big toe. Any less that that, will cause pain.

Try these two foot exercises to improve that mobility.

1) Grab your favorite Yoga Tune Up ball or lacrosse ball and get it under you foot, moving it side to side across your plantar fascia.
2) Do a wall stretch, but lift your heel off the ground to stretch that big toe.
3) Do some toe walks around your house! Hit these for 1-5 minutes.

At Athletes' Potential we help active adults and athletes in the Atlanta area get back to the workouts and sports they love... without surgery, stopping activities, or relying on pain medicine. Life is too short to avoid doing the things that you love.

Reach out to us at:

www.athletespotential.com
info@athletespotential.com
​470-355-2106
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