Can I bother you with questions about your pre- and post-run exercises? I want to make sure I'm doing them right... Ok here I go:
On the before-run workouts, when you “duck walk” – are you standing and taking normal-size steps, or down with your butt closer to the ground taking little steps?
On the heel walk, do you have your entire foot on the ground except for your toes, or do you lift the entire toebox so that only the end of your heel is touching the ground?
For the after-run exercise, do you bend your knee at all, or is your leg straight pretty much and you move your entire leg up and down? Do you do them one after the other very quickly, or do you do it slowly and calculated, holding the muscles tight up and down for a few seconds?
Sorry to bug you but I’m just trying to do whatever I can to make this shin pain go away!
1. For the duck walk I have been walking normal or should I say as normal as I can get.
2. For the heal walk I only have my heel touching the ground.
3. For the post exercise I usually do my right leg then my left leg three times. I usually around 25 per leg before I have to stop from the burnings and I usually keep my leg straight. And I usually do one leg right after the other.
I think a lot of these exercises I usually go by how I feel. You may have to do them differently; my best advice is if you think you have to adjust one or another that it is ok. The last time I started getting shin splints they went away fast by using these exercise and I did some icing to help with the swelling. And don't worry you and not bothering me at all, I just hope what I am saying makes sense. Please let me know if you have anymore questions.
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