Short Class 14: Intrinsic Foot Strengthening
24m
This class is all about those intrinsic foot muscles.
Equipment: Small tower, regular towel, and possible a weight.
Time Markers:
** all drills are done from a seated base**
0:30 Intrinsic Foot Drills (warm up)
4:00 Intrinsic Strength Holds
5:20 Big Toe (Small Towel Drill)
7:24 Little Toes (Small Towel Drill)
8:40 All Toes (Small Towel Drill)
11:55 All Toes (Large Towel Drill)
14:23 All Toes Round 2 (Large Towel Drill)
15:43 Big Toe Round 2 (Small Towel Drill)
16:50 Little Toes Round 2 (Small Towel Drill)
17:48 All Toes Round 2 (Small Towel Drill)
20:23 Big Toe Strength/Little Toe Lifts (Small Towel Drill)
21:45 Little Toe Strength/Big Toe Lifts (Small Towel Drill)
Tootsie training! Definitely an underrated and underutilized training area. Our feet have become increasingly weak in our society to do overly supported shoes. This causes the intrinsic foot muscles to weaken, and we lose important sensory feedback. Training our feet is becoming incredibly important, especially with the amount of problems people are having with their feet nowadays. Plantar fasciitis becoming a common problem for people, amongst other problems. With this class we put a much needed emphasis on the feet and the intrinsic foot muscles.
For most people they can doing this class as is, and for those who want to progressively overload after some consistent weeks of incorporating this class - you can progress to doing some of these drills more than what is shown in the video. The total time of doing foot drills in this video is around 23min. After some consistent training you can progressively overload to doing 30min, then 35min, then 40min, then doing the entire class twice (46min). The key is always progressive overload. After 4-6 weeks of consistent training feel free to progressively overload a little more. Gradually increasing the overall workload through weeks of training.
I hope you enjoy the class!