How to do Standing Calf Stretches on a Curb

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jabari Pride and you are back to expertvillage.com. We are going to do another stretch for your calf. Now find a curve to do this would be the ideal position to do. You know if you can find some stairs that would work to. Now if you are doing this in the streets, you are doing in on the curve so make sure you check both ways to make sure there is not any cars coming. Cause if you do this stretch and you trip and you fall you don't want to get ran over. So once again if you are stretching that right leg, stretching the right calf. You are going to put the ball of your foot, the ball of your foot is located right below where your toe is. But on the padding of your toe itself but on the main part of your foot directly below where the big toe of your foot. So the ball of your foot you are going to put that on the top part of the curve. You are going to press down with your heel. You are going to go as far as you can keeping your left leg stable on the ground ahead of you and you can lean forward a little bit to really get that stretch in your calf. So you are going to go down so you can feel a really good stretch on again if you are going to feel pain stop. There are levels that are good and levels that are bad. You don't want a bad level of pain. So if you bend your knee while stretching that calf you can stretch different parts of your calf by doing this. So if you keep your leg straight while you doing these calf stretches you are really going to feel the stretch in the upper part of your calf. Up here closer to where your knee is. If you keep the leg straight. As you start to bend your knee to do this stretch you are going to feel the stretch moved down your calf muscles. So you are going to go from stretching here and as the degree gets greater with the bend this stretch is going to move down the calf. So high calf stretch, lower calf stretch and that is a calf stretch. "