How to Relax your Calves with Calf Stretches

Calf muscle is locating in between the knee and ankle at the back of the leg. Regularly and properly stretching the calf muscles is imperative for physical activities and daily tasks. The basic activities and functions, such as walking and running, use your calf muscles so often as it’s essential to reduce tightness, stiffness, pain and discomforts from the particular body part. Tight calves mostly lead to injury risks, affect the overall legs and also can affect your lower back. If you are constantly feeling the backache then your calf muscles might be a possible contributor. Doing calf stretches regularly is good to avoid leg or back pains for an individual or an athlete.

For walking, running or doing any cardiovascular exercise we need much strong calf muscles. Stretching calf muscles before and after your workout routines prevent you from muscles pulling and joint discomforts. It increases overall flexibility and strength in your lower body. So it’s good and needed to learn and perform calf stretches properly. Here are some of the preventative measures for tightening of calf muscles:

• Basic Calf stretch:

Basic Calf stretch is perfect for stretching the calves and relaxing the muscles in the easiest and safest way. You just need to put your hands on a wall and stand a few steps back. Your feet must be 3 feet away from the wall. Make a lunge position with your right foot by bending on the knee. Press left heel and stretch your calf muscle. Repeat it with the other foot. Hold the stretch for about 30 seconds simultaneously.

• Stair Stretch:

Stair stretch is one of the best calf stretches in order to make your legs and lower back relaxed.  Stand on the lowest step of the stair and keep your left foot on the next step up. Hangs off the right step back and push it with your body weight to stress the muscles. Hold the stretch for 20 to 30 seconds and then repeat it with the other foot.

• Sitting Calf Stretch:

You can easily stretch your calves while sitting down on the floor and extend your legs in front of you. Lean forward and grab your feet. Hole the toes and pull them towards yourself. This will provide a good stretch in both the calves. Hold it for 15 seconds and release. Repeat it 3 to 5 times. You can pull the toes of both the legs one after another.