Action Step: Ankle, Knee, Hip Strength

Start Aging Intelligently today. The process: one step at a time. The road: move everything in your body every day. 

Those little pathetic, underused ankles at the bottom of your stick legs support a lot of weight. Well, ok, all of it. How about being kind to them by strengthening and aligning the ankles and saving your knees and hips?

Just before you eat, and from a standing position, roll your ankles towards the outside of your feet. That would be, pinky side. It lifts the arch, and engages the muscles (adductors) along the inside of the leg. When the inside of the leg is engaged, it subtly opens the hip joint, supports the ligaments and tendons along the knee, and keeps the ankle in line with both the knee and hip. It’s dynamic alignment from your hips to the floor. Let your ankle relax and roll back toward big toe side, and then roll back to pinky side. Do it 10 times, holding each pinky side position for 2 seconds, totaling 20 whole seconds. Really? Posture change in 20 seconds. Yes indeed. The process is one step at a time, long term.

Only then, eat.

This adds a habit you already do (eating) to a habit that you want to form (ankle, knee, hip strength ).

Aging Intelligently is a process and a practice.