How to Stretch Your Calves Before Running

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Robert Rogers and I'm Mike Ballosonie and on behalf of expertvillage.com. Today we are going to be talking about some basic stretching you can do before and after you run to help loosen up your muscles and help relax. Next, stretch we are going to talk about is the calves. There's many ways to do this. What Mike is doing is just going against the floor. Pressing his back foot flat down, and his other foot. Right now he is stretching is right foot. His right foot is flat to the ground and he is moving forward to stretch that calve out here. Calves are very important obviously. Notice again he is not jumping or bouncing. When you done with that switch the foot. There are lots of different ways you can stretch your calves. Some people walk up to a wall put the wall(say this is a wall)that put there foot on it and come close to the wall. That would stretch the same way that this is stretching. Some people also push on a wall. By pushing up against a wall you keeping your foot back like so. "