Kneeling Achilles Stretch
The Kneeling Achilles Stretch isolates the calf muscle. Loosening this link in the posterior chain will allow an athlete to work deeper into their front splits.
- Type Of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Ankles, Calves
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
Kneeling Achilles (Right Side)
- Begin kneeling on the floor with your right foot planted flat, knee bent, and your left leg pulled out to the side.
- Lay your chest along your right thigh and move your right knee forward over the middle of your foot.
- Keep your left knee pulled out to the side to remove the hip flexor stretch.
- Keep your right heel, toes, and thigh in alignment.
- Never let your right heel lift off the floor.
- Maintain the forward lean with your right leg, and hold this kneeling achilles stretch for time before switching sides.
- Exercise: Standing Pike
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Hamstrings, Glutes, Calves
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Body Only
- Exercise: Standing Elevated Achilles
- Type of Exercise: Flexibility
- Muscles: Ankles, Hamstrings, Glutes, Calves
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Equipment: Yoga Block
