The practice of calf muscle stretching leads to better flexibility, while improving blood circulation to avoid muscle tightness and injuries.<\/p>\n
How to do it:<\/p>\n
Stand an arm\u2019s length away from a wall.<\/p>\n
Place your hands flat against the wall for support.<\/p>\n
Take a step backward with one straight foot, while pressing the heel against the floor.<\/p>\n
Lower your front knee slightly and press against the wall, until you reach the stretch in your calf muscle.<\/p>\n
Maintain the stretch position for 15 to 20 seconds.<\/p>\n
Perform this stretch 2 to 3 times on each leg before changing sides.<\/p>\n
Why it\u2019s good:<\/p>\n
Stretching allows blood flow to increase, and relaxes the calf muscles before exercise begins. Your ability to walk correctly along with cramp prevention, depends on flexible calf muscles. The stretching process improves blood circulation, which benefits heart health by making blood flow back to your heart more easily.<\/p>\n
Sources:<\/p>\n
Aster Hospitals \u2013 Calf Muscles and Heart Health<\/p>\n
Surrey Physio \u2013 5 Best Ways to Strengthen Your Calves<\/p>\n
WebMD \u2013 Best Exercises for Strengthening Calf Muscles<\/p>\n
Moneycontrol \u2013 How Calf Muscles Can Keep Cardiovascular Disease at Bay<\/p>\n
Disclaimer: This article is informational only and not a substitute for medical advice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The practice of calf muscle stretching leads to better flexibility, while improving blood circulation to avoid muscle tightness…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[33559,33562,6647,102,6613,33561,33560,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-63089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-calf-muscles","tag-calf-muscles-exercises","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-heart-health","tag-heart-health-exercises","tag-muscles-strengthen","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}