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The muscle that forms the calf of your lower leg is the muscle that helps you lift to your toes. This muscle is called the gastrocnemius.

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Two muscles involved in walking on the toes are: gastrocnemius and Soleus (calf) muscle

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Tibialis Anterior

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Your hamstring.

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pivot joint

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Q: What muscle to you stretch when touching your toes?
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What are flexibility exercises?

Yoga. Stretch before and after you do your other excercises too. You can also watch dance warm up videos on YouTube. Splits are a good excercise, and touching your toes.


What are good ways to stretch?

stretch your legs by reaching down and touching your toes, and stretch your arms by putting one arm behind your head to touch your opposite shoulder and your opposite arm should grab your elbow and pull back. it helps.


What is the best stretch for the Achilles tendon?

You are actually stretching the gastrocnemius muscle from which the Achilles tendon comes from. The best stretch is to put you toes angled up towards a wall with your heel on the ground and to lean into the wall. You should feel a stretch up into your calf muscle (gastrocnemius) as well as in your Achilles.


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the muscle spindle detects excessive stretch within the muscle , it response and makes the muscle contract


Which of these exercises is a stretching activity?

Touching toes


What muscle do you stretch when you do the flamingo stretch?

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What muscle allows you to stand on your tip toes.?

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Stretch muscle vs non stretch muscles?

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What muscle do you stretch when you do the butterfly stretch?

Your groin is being stretched.


Are you flexing your hip when touching your toes?

I don't think so


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The cell is long because the , muscle needs to stretch and contract when you use that muscle. Therefore it needs to be long in order to stretch.


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If you think about your mind as if it were a muscle, you can figure this out. If you stretch a muscle, it gets stronger. If you stretch your mind, you think of new things and your mind gets smarter.