Exercises to improve your foot and ankle strength and flexibility.
Foot strength and flexibility full class. This class will strengthen all of the muscles in your feet and ankles, as well as helping you improve your foot and ankle flexibility. This class is great if you want better ballet feet, if you are training for pointe work, pre-pointe, or are a beginner to intermediate pointe […]
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Without a doubt, the most common exercise recommended for improving foot strength is pointing into a theraband. While it’s not a bad exercise per se, it’s one of my least favorite exercises for feet and ankle strength. Why do I dislike this exercise so much? Well, mainly because it’s simply not very effective. It’s also
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Pre-pointe exercises and beginner pointe training – Here are a collection of my top strength, control and stability exercises to get you ready for pointe work. These exercises are designed for students who have several years of ballet training and are actively working towards their first pair of pointe shoes. However, these exercise are also
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Foot strength and control are absolutely essential for all dancers and performing artists. Strength and control are super important to protect against foot and ankle pain or injury. Of course, if you are working towards pointe work, or currently doing pointe, then you need more strength and control to both succeed at pointe and prevent
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Who wants better ballet feet? Looking to increase your pointe range? Ballet, and particularly pointe work, require extreme range of motion in your feet and ankles. This exercise works on improving the end range strength in your feet and ankles, which will both help to improve your foot flexibility while improving your strength and stability
This is perhaps the most common exercise dancers are recommended to improve their foot and ankle strength. However, I’m not particularly a fan of this exercise, mainly because I see it performed badly all the time. Performing this exercise with poor technique is always a bad idea. Poor form creates bad habits and doesn’t strength
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Foot sickling is a common problem among dance students. Many students sickle their feet when they are trying very hard to increase their point range. Sickling happens when you are trying so hard to point that then your ankle collapses outwards, causing your foot to turn inwards. In the dance world, we love creating beautiful
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