How to Strengthen Your Ankles And Prevent Sprains
This article will give you tips to help strengthen your ankles and prevent sprains, especially if you are an athlete.
Other People Are Reading
Instructions
-
-
1
Be sure to stretch your calves out on a daily basis and massage them if they are sore. This helps prevent them from getting tight and minimize soreness from training, running, or sports.
-
2
Strengthen the muscles on the front of your lower leg that surround the shin. A good exercise that you can do anytime to strengthen this muscle group is when you sitting down, raise you toes repeatedly like you are playing a piano and pressing the keys. Be sure to raise your toes as high as you can towards your shin until you feel it burning. Do this daily.
-
-
3
Do plenty of calf raises. The best calf raise exercise to do is a single leg calf raise in which you hold a dumbbell in the opposite hand of the calf you are working. This not only strengthens your calves tremendously, but it can also add 1-2 inches to your vertical jump.
-
4
Use a flex band or band which provides good resistance to work your ankles. Sit on the ground with your feet in front of you and put the band around one of your ankles. Now pull hard on the band to provide resistance and work on moving your ankle in all 4 directions. Do 3 sets on each ankle everyday.
-
1
Tips & Warnings
These tips will help you avoid a ankle sprain and strengthen them
