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Technique

  1. Stand tall or sit with your feet flat on the ground.
  2. Lift only your big toes off the floor toward the sky.
  3. Lower them back down and repeat.

Form tips

  • Keep your other four toes pressed into the floor.

Muscles

Strength

Primary

  • Legs
  • Extensor digitorum longus
  • Extensor digitorum brevis
  • Extensor hallucis brevis
  • Extensor hallucis longus

Equipment

Appears in

Strength
Joint movements
trains stretches
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Standing big toe flexion

Novice
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Standing toes to heels

Novice
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Standing ankle circles

Beginner
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Heel walk

Beginner
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Downward dog to Upward dog

Novice
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