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Anonymous
Your stronger calf muscle is overpowering your weaker shin muscle. Try exercising your anterior shin muscle to strength it, I use to have bad shin splints in track but was able to over come them by making this muscle stronger.
copypasta The exercise that was recommended is, as I tend to refer to it, best described as figure-eights. Although, that description confuses some people ... maybe just calling it circles in both directions is clearer. Find yourself an old bicycle tube (bike shops will usually give you a punctured tube for free) or some surgical tubing, and tie a loop at one end to put your foot through. Position your foot so that the ball of the foot is making contact with the tubing so that you have good leverage. This is best done seated. Pull back on the other end with as much resistance as feels comfortable, and rotate your foot in circles (point your toe, rotate clockwise toward you, then away from you, etc.). Vary how hard you pull so that the resistance stays fairly even as the foot comes closer and moves further away. Change directions from time to time, making slow, controlled movements. After five to ten minutes a day of this, my shin splints were gone for good within a mere week or two.
Another trick is getting a bunch of marbles, dumping them by your feet, and picking them up one by one into a cup using just your feet.
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