There’s nothing more frustrating (or painful) than repeatedly twisting your ankle, getting shin splints or feeling the familiar twinge of tendonitis. If you’ve already worked on your glute strength, swapped trainers and done your recovery properly, then the culprit is probably a pair of underactive calves.
If there’s a pain in the bulky part of your calf, it’s your fast-twitch fibres that are screaming for help – any lower, and it’s the fibres that help you to run. So, what can you do about it? We called in the experts to explain exactly how to stretch and strengthen the most underrated muscle in the body.