Technique
- Stand tall or sit with your feet flat on the ground.
- Lift only your big toes off the floor toward the sky.
- Lower them back down and repeat.
Form tips
- Keep your other four toes pressed into the floor.
Muscles
Strength
Primary
- Legs
Individual muscles
Individual muscles
- Extensor digitorum longus
- Extensor digitorum brevis
- Extensor hallucis brevis
- Extensor hallucis longus
Equipment
Appears in
Strength
Joint movements
FootToes extension
trains stretches
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