Many people have complained that their calf muscles are very stiff and their protruding calf muscles turn your legs into carrot legs. In fact, calf muscle stiffness can be slowly eliminated through stretching. If you are worried that you cannot stretch it with bare hands, you can use yoga blocks to assist in stretching. So do you know how to use yoga blocks to stretch your calves? Let’s go to the fitness equipment and take a look!
Sitting forward bend
Prepare two yoga blocks and a stretching belt in advance. Sit on the mat, move your gluteal muscles backward, press your ischium on the ground, keep your pelvis straight, your spine straight, your legs straight, step on the yoga bricks with the soles of your feet, cover the yoga bricks with a stretching belt, and grab the stretching belt with both hands. When inhaling, the spine lengthens and the chest opens. Exhale, fold your hip joints and bend your body forward, adjust the length of the stretch strap and hold the seated forward bend for 5 to 8 sets of breaths. The purpose of adding a yoga brick here is to help the soles of the feet find the feeling of stepping on the ground in Mountain Pose. It can also prevent the soles of the feet from turning into the toes and help the soles of the feet to be vertical to the ground.
Warrior One Style
Stand in Mountain Pose on the front of your mat with your feet hip-width apart. Take a big step back with your right foot and place the sole of your foot on the yoga block. Adjust your pelvis, pulling your left hip back and pushing your right hip forward. Curl your tailbone, lift your pubic bone, keep your pelvis upright, open your chest, and extend your spine. Inhale, raise your hands above your head, palms facing each other. Exhale, push your right foot back, bend your left knee, and place your left calf vertically on the ground.
Intensified Side Stretch Pose
Based on the warrior pose 1, when inhaling, extend the spine and straighten the left leg. When exhaling, drive the body with the hips as the turning point, fold forward and downward to your own width, place your hands on both sides of the feet, When you inhale again, hook your left foot back and step on the soles of your feet in yogaon bricks. When exhaling, push your left heel down and forward, hook the sole of your foot back a little more, and hold the strengthening side stretch for 3 to 5 sets of breaths. Inhale and stand up, return to Mountain Pose, and practice Warrior Pose and Strengthening Side Stretch Pose on the opposite side.
Demigod Monkey
Kneel on the mat, with your feet as wide as your pelvis, your thighs perpendicular to the mat, your left foot straight forward, your toes hooked back, and the soles of your feet stepping on yoga bricks. Your pelvis is straight and your spine is upright. When inhaling, extend your spine; when exhaling, bend your body forward, push your heels forward, and place your hands on the ground on both sides of your left foot. Hold 5 to 8 sets of breaths in Demi-Monkey Pose and then practice on the opposite side.