Showing the Shins Some Love

Since I needed to find some stretches and exercises to strengthen my shins, I thought it would make a great topic for this week’s Five Minutes for Fitness.

After my extensive Internet searching, I learned that ankle curls help strengthen your shins. If you don’t have weights, you can also a bucket filled with sand for the same effect.

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(Don’t you just love the music? 🙂 )

Of course, yoga is always a wonderful way for runners to help strengthen and stretch their muscles.

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About the author

Denise

From start to finish, Denise is Run DMT, a Tampa Bay homeschooling mom on the run trying to maintain an easy pace through it all between races and raising three beautiful, brilliant adultish kids (ages 23, 19, 14). In 2007, I discovered a passion for running and in February 2015, I completed my tenth marathon. I continue to train for a variety of races and even host annual 5K. In 2023, I became a certified group fitness instructor and teach P.E. in my homeschool co-op.

One comment

morethananelectrician says: 26 March, 2009 at 7:38 pm

Stretching is so…boring…I KNOW my hamstring issues were from a complete lack of stretching. I bought a book of stretches and vow to begin doing this more often…I promise.

I will add this one to the list…but no yoga!

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