“Eccentric loading [when muscles elongate ... and lower your heel to gently sink into a calf stretch. Make sure you can relax into the position to optimize your tissue’s ability to let go.

Objective: To investigate the acute effects of isolated eccentric and concentric calf muscle exercise on Achilles tendon sagittal thickness. Design: Within-subject, counterbalanced, mixed design.

Participants were assessed using a Cybex ® NORM Isokinetic Dynamometer. They then completed a 12-week eccentric calf exercise programme on one leg and were re-tested [Alfredson, 1998]. The test ...

Keep the knee straight and lean forwards to stretch into both of the muscles in the calf. “This stretches out all of the tissue on the back of the lower leg,” says Kayode. Stand facing a wall ...