Sentences with phrase «muscles around the ankle»

This again points to the importance of strengthening the muscles around the ankle to improve stability.

The flexibility of the ankle enables the tendons, ligaments and muscles around the ankle to accommodate for these sudden movements or changes of direction and to help keep an athlete from unwanted injuries.

On the other hand, walking provides a substantially better workout than elliptical machines for the hamstrings, calves and small muscles around the ankles, according to biomechanical studies.

Compared to freshmen, sophomore and juniors exhibited a greater strength in muscles around their ankles, especially those on the inside and outside of the joint.

Not exact matches

Here's how to do it: Stand with your feet together, bend your knees enough to connect to those inner thigh muscles, stretch your arms out to your side, take one arm and cross it over the other and press the palms together, bend your knees a little deeper now and take the opposite leg and squeeze it tight so those inner thighs are wrapped together, if you can wrap your leg around the bottom ankle do so, keep squeezing those inner thighs the whole time to help you control this move, find that focus and take a deep breath in, come up to stand and repeat it on the other side.

Core training will strengthen your inner muscles to prevent injury, especially around your hip, knee and ankle joints.

Your feet will toughen up (though they probably won't grow hair quite like Frodo and Sam), your joints and muscles around your feet and ankles will strengthen, and your knees will deal with less stress.

The small muscles around the foot and ankle really get challenged during balance exercises, and standing on one foot can strengthen the arch muscles.

The chaos of the water means you'll be adapting to any direction of force and training lots of little stabilizer muscles in your ankles, around your spine, and so on, as opposed to the unidirectional movements you get from exercising in a gym.