Hey everybody and welcome to you today's episode of the Run to the Shop

Echik daily podcast. I am your host one of the Run to the Top Edge Kick daily podcast. I am your host one of the coaches here at

Rask Connect, Coach Haleymunk and it's great to be chatting with you today.

Hope you're all doing well. I hope you're all enjoying your running and hopefully this podcast is going to be of interest to you, especially if you suffer with

injuries or tightness in the calves, hopefully this podcast is going to be for you and actually just for a whole range of

injuries and any runner in fact to prevent injuries in future to help with your

wanting form should have strong calves. So that's what this

podcast is about how strong your calves are and how strong they should be and what to do if they aren't quite strong enough.

So let's start with why we need strong calves.

Just quickly before I do that, let's just talk about the calf muscles.

So the calf muscles are the muscles in the back of your lower leg.

There are two calf muscles. There's the deep calf muscle called the solace and there is the bigger

calf muscle that we tend to talk about more often and tends to get strained more often and that is the gastrosanemias.

That's the big bulky one you can feel kind of giving the calf shape at the top of the leg. The solaeus is a bit deeper and harder to to locate. It's quite hard to stretch so rather than stretch it, which you can do you can stretch it. rather than stretch it, which you can do, you can stretch that muscle with a bent leg,

whereas you stretch the gaseous anemes with a straight leg

when you're doing the classic calf stretch pose where you lean forward with your back leg straighten your front leg bent if you can picture that.

But actually the best way to loosen up the solace is with a foam roller.

Cool, so there's a quick tour of the calves.

So these muscles, these two calf muscles,

they need to be strong.

And why do they need to be strong. And why do they need to be strong?

Because if they're not, we risk quite a few different injuries.

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