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🗓️ 11 April 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to Get Fit Guy. I'm your host, Dr. Jonathan Sue. Every week, I'll share |
0:11.7 | science-backed tips to help you get fit, stay fit, and optimize performance. If you do a lot of |
0:19.5 | walking, running, or hiking, the calf muscle on the back of your |
0:23.0 | lower leg can become stiff and painful. I'm always surprised by how many walkers and runners |
0:28.8 | let this problem brew until it becomes serious enough to seek out someone like me to help |
0:34.4 | them fix the problem. I always tell my patience that the solution is simple, but the execution is difficult. |
0:41.9 | If you really want to fix this problem, you have to care enough about it to get the execution down. |
0:47.7 | That means making time to do maintenance work on your body and ensuring that what you're doing |
0:52.8 | is done right. |
0:54.5 | One of the simplest solutions to a stiff and painful calf muscle is static stretching. |
1:00.1 | This is where you lengthen your calf muscle to its limit or place of tension |
1:04.4 | and stay in that position for up to a minute. |
1:08.4 | Stretching can help keep the calf muscle supple and pain-free, and I highly recommend |
1:13.0 | it as part of your daily, thrice weekly, or at the very least, once-weekly body maintenance |
1:18.9 | routine. If you're a walker, runner, or hiker, this is one stretch that you should be doing |
1:25.1 | after every workout. Even though performing the calf stretch seems simple, |
1:30.1 | properly executing this stretch is often elusive |
1:32.9 | because there are several elements that all need to come together |
1:36.5 | to get the most effective stretch. |
1:39.2 | Trust me when I say that this is one of the most difficult stretches to nail down. |
1:44.0 | I see the stretch performed |
1:45.4 | suboptimally by almost everyone at the gym, and I'm always needing to make adjustments for my |
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