Ankle Injury Prevention

[Teufel]

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[karategirl11]

ok...joints (ankle) cannot be strengthened. build muscle on your calves and try increasing the flexibility of your ankles. Do ankle circles and "draw" the letters of the alphabet with your foot (using ankle, foot and part of calf movement.) Place your foot against a wall and twist it outward. That's all I got.

[torsk]

Stand on one leg, arms tucked to your chest or whatever and close your eyes. Might help. Better balance anyway, and balancing uses muscles so.. I should just fuck off back to studying..

[SolidD33]

Proprioception exercises along with strong calves and stretching can greatly increase your ankles strength/stability.

[Teufel]

Proprioception exercises along with strong calves and stretching can greatly increase your ankles strength/stability.

Could you elaborate for me, please? Thanks

[SolidD33]

Here is a brief article on proprioception (http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/conditioning/a/aa062200a.htm).

1. Stretching- more flexibility leads to more strength through a greater range of motion.(when combined with strength training)
2. Lower Leg strength- the stronger the muscles and tendons surrounding a joint are, the stronger the joint is.
3. Proprioception- your nerves in the trained area of your body become super aware/faster and can move more quickly to get your joint out of a compromised position.
4. Plyometrics- explosive movements performed with little or no extra weight, to develop fast twitch fibers within the muscle.(most commonly heard of when training jumping ability) This can lead to extremely strong joints/muscles.

If you're regularily doing all of these, you should be more than fine.
Oh and no special equipment should needed. Any of it can be improvised or fashioned out of other things.

[Drex]

Here is a brief article on proprioception (http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/conditioning/a/aa062200a.htm).

1. Stretching- more flexibility leads to more strength through a greater range of motion.(when combined with strength training)
2. Lower Leg strength- the stronger the muscles and tendons surrounding a joint are, the stronger the joint is.
3. Proprioception- your nerves in the trained area of your body become super aware/faster and can move more quickly to get your joint out of a compromised position.
4. Plyometrics- explosive movements performed with little or no extra weight, to develop fast twitch fibers within the muscle.(most commonly heard of when training jumping ability) This can lead to extremely strong joints/muscles.

If you're regularily doing all of these, you should be more than fine.
Oh and no special equipment should needed. Any of it can be improvised or fashioned out of other things.

Yup. Just make sure to have a solid weight training foundation before getting in to plyometrics. It's generally recommended that you be able to squat at least 1.5x your body weight before doing plyos.

[commandarcool]

http://skateboard-city.com/messageboard/showthread.php?t=39395

i made this thread on a skateboard forum

[Drex]

Why do I not remember ever posting on this thread...?