Pilates Stretch Band Exercises: Flexing Circles

Video Transcript

"This exercise using the theraband is designed to work the foot, ankle, and lower leg. To do this exercise go ahead and take the theraband and bring it about an inch below your toes and then bring the theraband around so you want enough overhang over your toes so that we can do the exercise correctly. Go ahead and lay down on your back. Bring your leg up, putting a lot of tension on the band, begin to make circles with your foot as if your foot is going around a clock trying to get to all the hands on the clock and then reverse this exercise. For some people this is an extremely difficult exercise, trying to get this rotation in their foot, then we are going to go ahead and point and flex and you'll feel this in both the calf and the shin, point and flex and point and flex. The feet are very neglected and this is an excellent exercise."