Comments on: The surprising secret to activating your arches https://bodymindballet.com/the-surprising-secret-to-activating-your-arches/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-surprising-secret-to-activating-your-arches Knowledge to dance, inspiration to fly. Sun, 08 Jun 2014 15:26:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: Grant Whaits https://bodymindballet.com/the-surprising-secret-to-activating-your-arches/#comment-26 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:21:51 +0000 http://bodymindballet.com/?p=274#comment-26 Hi Robynn, sorry for the delay in replying. Basically what I was suggesting was an exercise where the person raises up on the toes (concentric)and then slowly lets themself down only on the one foot (eccentric) – this might be nice and challenging if the person did this while standing on a BOSU ball or Airex while having their eyes closed. Another exercises that I mentioned can be done by placing a towel down folded out along the floor next to a chair, one can place a weight(eg. 5kg free-weight) on the top end point of the towel, therefore making it more challenging to the person grabbing the towel with their toes and pulling it accross.

]]> By: Robynn Burls https://bodymindballet.com/the-surprising-secret-to-activating-your-arches/#comment-14 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 07:15:37 +0000 http://bodymindballet.com/?p=274#comment-14 Hi Grant, thank you for sharing your ideas, you clearly have some experience on this topic.

Could you perhaps explain the best way to do some of these exercises you’ve recommended? I’m guessing that “concentric and eccentric calf raises” means rising up onto demi-pointe and then lowering the heels back down?

]]> By: Grant Whaits https://bodymindballet.com/the-surprising-secret-to-activating-your-arches/#comment-13 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:56:51 +0000 http://bodymindballet.com/?p=274#comment-13 I think that one also needs to look at ways of stimulating the muscles and ligaments that control the ability of the person to push their toe into the ground to help lift the arch to avoid overuse of the tibialis anterior muscle. Possible exercises like weighted towel grabbing with the toes could help as well as barefoot concentric and eccentric calf raises on an airex or BOSU ball plus toe extensions.

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