Your Foot Bone Is Connected To, Well, Everything Else

If you lean forward and look straight down, you will see…..your feet. They are not pizza’s stuck on a pole. They actually have a function. They were meant to move, and move you. Which begs the question: why are you putting them in shoes that do not allow them movement in the name of support?

Would you put your neck in a cast, walk around for twenty years, then wonder why your neck doesn’t function? No? So how does it make sense with your feet?

Your feet are the first contact with Earth, so all the walking, running, stomping, jumping, and sprinting takes a toll and reverberates that pounding up through the knees, hips, spine, neck and all the joints. You can feel a bad jump in your shoulders.

Instead of surrounding your feet with shoes that do not let them move, try moving your feet more. Go barefoot in your house. Massage them in the shower.

Here is some insight: there are 26 bones in the feet, 33 joints. That is 33 moving parts. In each foot! You also have 12 tendons and 18 muscles. Big surprise, it is not just one big muscle stuck down there on the end of your leg.

If your feet could talk, they would yell at you for abusing them so much. Come to think of it, they do talk. It’s the talk of pain. Are you listening? Can you respond with anything other than whining?

Feet are not just an add-on to your body. They are key to moving well. Move them. Often. And the ankles that are attached to them. Make circles with your ankles, roll up and down on the balls of your feet, roll from side to side and front to back on your feet, point your toes, flex your toes and ankles. Move your feet in every direction and at every speed that you can. You can even lay down, stick your feet in the air, and move, move, move those feet.

Mobility is a component to aging well.

And that’s Aging Intelligently.