How To Do Heel To Toe Exercises Video

Stretch out your ankles and calves to get ready for a run. Learn exercises and stretches for your workout routine in this fitness video.

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Warm up with heel to toe exercises
Start in pushup position
Drop to elbows to make easier

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Amy McCauley has been a certified personal fitness trainer since 1995. She specializes in pilates, combat cardio, core conditioning and overall strength training. She works with clients ranging in age from 16 - 69. She has worked at Gold's Gym in Wilmington, NC since 2006. She loves her job because it gives her the opportunity to change peoples' lives in a positive way.

AMY MCCAULEY: Hi. Here is how to do a heel-to-toe exercise. You're going to come up into a pushup position, shoulders along the spine, your head is slightly over the hands, you're rotating from heel to toe. We want to get the fullest amount of stretch in the calf area. You're coming into the ball of your foot and driving back into your heel. Take your time. Holding, optional, is 10 to 15 seconds on each side or you can rotate back and forth, alternating side to side. Stretching in and out a little bit deeper. So options are stabilizing and holding that muscle, pushing down to the calf holding 10 to 15 seconds, or rotating back and forth if you want a more active movement. If you have a hard time with this, you are more than welcome to drop down to your elbows; this modifies the movement a little bit and it takes a pressure a little bit out of the back. You're just rotating again from back to front. This is great for those of you who are runners, those of you who do gymnastics, anything that requires a lot of pressure in the balls of your feet where your ankles need stretching as well as your calves. So, again, what you want to think of steps: Hands need to be directly underneath the shoulders, no wider than a shoulder width. As you come up, head should be higher than the bottom. The bottom should be lower than the shoulders. You're rotating heel down and toe. We're going to try to articulate the feet, stretching the ankle and calf. Do several repetitions, take a break 2 to 3 minutes, and then repeat. And that is how you do your heel-to-toe movement.

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