Standing Elevated Achilles
The Standing Elevated Achilles stretch targets your calf and your achilles tendon. If you have tight calf muscles, you will want to address them as you work toward your front splits or other front splits progressions.
- Type Of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Ankles, Hamstrings, Glutes, Calves
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Yoga Block
Standing Elevated Achilles (Right Side)
- Begin standing with your right forefoot placed on a yoga block, heel on the floor.
- Step back and place your left foot 1-2 feet behind your right heel.
- Square your hips to the front, straighten your knees, engage your quads, and keep them straight throughout this stretch.
- Use your left leg to push your hips forward slightly and simultaneously hinge to a 90-degree bend at your waist.
- You should feel a stretch through your right hamstring and calf.
- Keep your back flat, with an anterior pelvic tilt (APT) and hold this standing achilles stretch for time before switching to the other leg.
- Exercise: Kneeling Achilles (Right Side)
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Ankles, Calves
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Narrow Hurdler
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Hamstrings, Glutes, Calves
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only, Yoga Block
