How to Prevent a Sprained Ankle

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Tanya Batts and I'm a personal trainer with Gold's Gym. I want to talk to you about how to prevent a sprained ankle. It's a very common injury. When I first started thinking about a sprained ankle I really pictured the football player, the basketball player kind of rolling their heel over on the court or out on the field but then I got to thinking a spike pair of stilettos will take you down just as quick so it's real important to focus on what you can do to prevent a sprained ankle. You are not even going to believe how easy it is. It's as easy as lifting one foot, off the floor, it's balance training. So if I'm just holding this and I'll even face you, I am really working all the muscles in a standing leg. Pretty amazing, hold it for ten seconds, switch sides, pretty simple. I want to make it a little more challenging, so from the side if you just lift one foot up practice coming down touching the floor, coming back up. So all the muscles in the standing leg are firing. Let's just say you hate balance you are terrible at it, the beauty of balance is it can be learned and achieved and you can really grasp the concept of balance with practice. Core strength will also help you with balance so not only is it simple to lift one leg, try to practice holding, maybe throwing a ball and playing catch with somebody as you stand on one leg. If you are really serious about getting those strong ankles, the Bosu, a ball cut in half, who knew, you really want to stand on the ball, same thing, lifting one foot and holding, that's pretty challenging then coming down and doing the same thing on the other side, that's working so many muscles. It is going to strengthen the ankle. This is just a few great things you can do to really strengthen the muscles and prevent yourself from getting a sprained ankle."