Every muscle in your body every major muscle group has a counterpart that's pulling in the opposite direction. There's always some kind of basic tension in your body between two muscles that are pulling back and forth. So in the last video, we did calf raises, and we strengthen the back of our shins. In this video, we're going to video we're going to do toe raises, strengthening the front diversions or muscle called your tibialis anterior. Similar to the last exercise, you want to stand up straight, holding a chair for support. And all you want to do is raise your toes, the front of your toes forwards, holding them for three to five seconds.
Bring your toes up as high as you can, but you don't want to lean back with your whole body. You want to keep your body safe. standing straight and just pick your toes up as high as they can go. Hold for three seconds, and release. It's a simple, straightforward exercise of a muscle group that you probably haven't thought about. And this is one of the muscle groups that strengthening it can be very beneficial to both your knee joints.
And for people who suffer from shin splints, which are which are micro fractures in your shin bone or the tibia. Hold this for three seconds, you want to do about 10 reps, and you're done. Shake your legs out to release. Now that's it.