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Stretching & Tightening
I know a number of fellow losers have had problems
with shin splints. Recently I've found myself having some increasing pain
in my calves when I'm walking and while stretching out prior to exercising,
increasing my potassium and drinking plenty of water have helped, it wasn't
"enough." But then I realized that I wasn't walking right. Instead
of making my calves do all the work, like doing abdominal crunches where
people tend to use their neck, shoulders and upper arms to help thrust
their body up off the mat, I wasn't using my glutes to pull my legs up
off the ground. I found that if I focus on stretching my weight bearing
leg out from the heel instead of the toe and pull with my glutes nice
and tight, I don't have that pain for more than a moment or two. I call
it my "oops! I forgot" moment. Great Kegel exercise too!
Another thing I'm up against is finding the right shoes. I have the beginnings
of "hammer toe" and have seen my mother go through two excruciating
surgeries and she still has toes that cross over one another as if she's
constantly crossing her toes. She has to wear open toed shoes which makes
it embarrassing (and to me, absolutely freaky bizarre) My health care
practitioner suggested wearing backless shoes that requires me to flex
my toes in order to keep my shoes on and wants me to avoid pointed-toe
shoes. I have those 3/4 kind of slip-on tennis shoes and frequently wear
gardening clogs and regular clogs in the winter, flip-flops in the summer.
But when it comes to walking, I need a closed shoe only I find that they
really do a number on my toes and I'm aching something fierce. I even
developed a blister that appears to have been caused by the toes rubbing
against one another and pushing one down further into the top of my shoe.
I'd go to a deck shoe, but the support is crap. Guess I'll have to break
down and hit a real shoe store here. I tend to like Payless Shoe
Source, Wal-Mart and K-Mart but if I want to avoid the orthopedic shop,
Foot Locker here I come.
Joy.
So tell me, what do you know
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