Quote Originally Posted by Barton
Every one here must have a dirty mind.

LOL. I know, such an innocent question too, the poor girl simply wants to improve her ballet and here we are making all these assumptions....


Apparently if you do wear high heels a lot you can feel uncomfortable tension in your calves on standing flat as these muscles are not stretched because of the heels. I assume when you see women in high heels flexing their ankle forward when they are sitting, it's to relieve the discomfort but is actually also stretching those muscles too.

If you wanted to stimulate the calf contraction you'd need to have a brace or splint that prevented forward flexion at the ankle, so that would have to be secured on the front of the foot/shin.

testarossa - I'd be extremely interested in hearing if you do get one of these things or if you are thinking of training your feet in this way.