If you do a lot of walking, running, or hiking, the calf muscle on the back of your lower leg can become stiff and painful. I’m always surprised by how many walkers and runners let this problem brew until it becomes serious enough to seek out someone like me to help them fix the problem.
I always tell my patients that the solution is simple but the execution is difficult. If you really want to fix this problem, you have to care enough about it to get the execution down. That means making time to do maintenance work on your body and ensuring that what you’re doing is done right.
One of the simplest solutions to a stiff and painful calf muscle is static stretching. This is where you lengthen your calf muscle to its limit or place of tension and stay in that position for up to a minute.
Stretching can help keep the calf muscle supple and pain-free and I highly recommend it as part of your daily, thrice weekly, or, at the very least, once weekly body maintenance routine. If you’re a walker, runner, or hiker, this is one stretch that you should be doing after every workout.
Even though performing the calf stretch seems simple, properly executing the stretch is often elusive because there are several elements that all need to come together to get the most effective stretch. Trust me when I say that this is one of the most difficult stretches to nail down.
I see this stretch performed sub-optimally by almost everyone at the gym and I’m always needing to make adjustments for my patients when they perform it in front of me. Keep listening to find out how to properly stretch your calf muscle so you can help them feel like new in a snap.
Calf stretch
So what exactly are all the elements that need to come together to get the most effective calf stretch? There are seven elements to look out for:
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Side-to-side distance between the feet
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