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 children (ages 19, 15, 10). In 2007, I discovered a passion for running and in February 2015, I completed my tenth marathon, however, I continue to train for a variety of races. In my spare time, I founded Tampa Bay Bloggers, a hyperlocal blogging network.

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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