A Meet-And-Greet For Your Feet
Nov 10, 2015Feet are amazing pieces of architecture. Each foot has:
- 26 bones (One-quarter of the bones in the human body are in the feet)
- 33 joints
- more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments
Top left: Balance the weight evenly on these 4 points while lifting your arches. To strengthen your arches, lift your toes and inner ankles keeping the 4 corners of the feet evenly weighted.
Top Right: From the centre of the foot, extend forward through the base of the big toe, and back through the inner heel, forward through the base of the little toe and back through the outer heel.
Bottom left: From the base of the little toe draw the inner heel back. From the inner heel extend forward to the big toe mound. From the big toe mound draw the outer heel back and from the outer heel extend to the mound of little toe
Bottom right: Lengthen from outer heel to little toe, then little toe to big toe, big toe to inner heel, and Inner heel to outer heel.