A runner shares foot exercises borrowed from ballet that keep feet pain-free even after 100-mile runs. Toe bends, tiptoe holds, and heel locks done throughout the day strengthen the tendons and muscles runners need most.
I need to work on like strength around my feet. I think strength around your tendony bits, those bits here, look.
Oh, your legs? Yeah, yeah. Do you bend them? I'll show you what I do with my toes. Oh, can you see my feet? Can you see my feet?
Just about.
Well, I, I do like ballerina stuff.
All right.
You see my— can you see my foot?
Just about.
I push it in the ground and I bend the toes all the time.
Right.
Bend them forward. I have spiky backstands. I do my feet.
Right.
I do up on tiptoes and then I do heel lockers and up, you know. I'm doing all sorts with my feet all the time. I bend them everywhere.
Yeah.
Who'd think after 100 miles that we could do like full-on like this sort of stuff? No problem, absolutely no problem. No pain.
It's amazing, isn't it?
No pain, no nothing.
Yeah.
