Plantar Fasciitis Recipe

Plantar Fasciitis Recipe

Plantar fasciitis is a common foot condition characterized by inflammation of the plantar fascia, a thick band of tissue that runs across the bottom of your foot, connecting your heel bone to your toes. It typically causes a stabbing pain near the heel, which is often most intense with the first steps in the morning or after long periods of rest. Plantar fasciitis is a full body condition, and often called a "suspension and support" issue. The feet take on ground forces, working as a rigid lever and a mobile adapter to the ground. They also take on lots of stress from the weight of the body and any sort of torque that cannot be picked up from other joints.

Causes:
- Repetitive strain from activities like running or dancing and muscles not doing their job.
- Excessive weight or obesity crashing into the foot.
- Improper foot mechanics as we transfer from pronation to supination.
- Wearing shoes that keep the foot locked in supination, causing foot muscles to go weak.
- Age (more common between 40-60 years)

Typical treatments include rest and Ice, stretching, massage, pain management through ibuprofen or naproxen, application of anti-inflammatory creams, orthotics, night shin splints, steroids, and even surgery. On FIS TV, we will continue with our holistic approach, using patience, consistency, and muscle management. This is a long-term approach that will help you to reduce pain, improve range of motion, and actually strengthen foot muscles. The goal may be that you can get out of your orthotics and enjoy life again using the 5-Step Cycle of Muscle Maintenance.

Step 1. Activate | Joint Therapeutics: Isometric and single joint-specific therapy routines to target weak muscles and keep you moving pain free.
Step 2. Integrate | Yoga: Multi-joint isometric resistance training, targeting positional weakness to improve joint mobility and stability.
Step 3. Move | Pilates: Core-Focused Pilates calisthenics and fusion format resistance training with small equipment.
Step 4. Amplify | Strength Training: Workouts with an emphasis on strength training for muscle development using various resistance tools.
Step 5. Optimize | Fitness Fusion: Muscle strength and conditioning fusion workouts with free weights and bands combined with Stability Ball, Barre, and HIIT training.

You can stay on any week for as long as you like! Each week is a step of the muscle maintenance system. Practice at least one video a day for 3-5 days each week. When you are ready to move to the next step, feel free to jump into the week before if your system gets stressed. Think of this as a long-term solution as you work to resolve your issue and keep it at bay for your life!

5-Step Cycle Schedule:

Week / Step 1: Activate
1. Video 471 | Isometric Hip Boost: Rotation (15 minutes)
2. Video 426 | Isometric Ankle Boost (15 Minutes)
3. Video 349 | Isometric Foot Boost (15 Minutes)

Week / Step 2 Integrate
1. Video 301 | C.P.I. Foot Therapy (30 Minute Routine)
2. Video 407 | Yoga Foot and Ankle (30 minutes)
3. Video 210 | Yoga for the Foot (35 Minute Workout)

Week / Step 3: Move
1. Video 438 | Mobility: Supination (15 minutes)
2. Video 437 | Mobility: Pronation (15 minutes)
3. Video 467 | Ankle Mobility (45 Minutes)

Week / Step 4: Amplify
1. Video 386 | Plantar Fasciitis Therapy (30 minutes)
2. Video 417 | Holistic Foot and Ankle Workout (30 minutes)
3. Video 376 | Foot and Foundations (30 minutes)

Week / Step 5: Optimize
1. Video 596 | Quads and Calves Supersets (45 mins)
2. Video 319 | FIS Lower Leg and Foot (30 minutes)
3. Video 377 | Improve Your Balance (15 Minutes)

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Plantar Fasciitis Recipe
  • Video 471 | Isometric Hip Boost: Rotation (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This isometric routine is designed to target rotation of the hips

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight routine will help you strengthen muscles that cross the hip to perform internal and external rotation, such as the gluteals, piriformis, superior and inferior gemelli, obturato...

  • Video 426 | Isometric Ankle Boost (15 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that move and stabilize the ankle joint (talorcrural) in dorsiflexion and plantar flexion. No equipment is needed for this workout except for a chair in a few of the standing exercises.

    Weakness in these...

  • Video 349 | Isometric Foot Boost (15 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    If you need a quick boost, this 15-minute bodyweight workout will help strengthen muscles that move and stabilize the many joints of the foot and toes. Much of this video is done from a chair using bodyweight only.

    Weakness in these areas can affect our overall gait and have a great influence...

  • Video 301 | C.P.I. Foot Therapy (30 Minute Routine) with Lauren Eirk

    If you are suffering with Chronic pain in the foot due to arthritis, improper shoes, long periods of standing, and other neurological issues, these exercises can be an answer. Practice various seated and standing mobility exercises to improve foot and ankle strength in all available planes of mot...

  • Video 407 | Yoga Foot and Ankle (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Our lifestyles and shoe choices can cause the muscles in our foot and ankle to weaken and lose mobility. The health of the foot influences the knee, hip, trunk, spine, and shoulders. The strength and mobility of the knee, hip, trunk, spine, and shoulders also affect the foot. Many foot issues ...

  • Video 210 | Yoga for the Foot (35 Minute Workout) with Lauren Eirk

    Any exercise modality will require the foot and ankle to have enough strength and rigidity to propel the body forward as well as enough mobility to adapt to the surfaces that we walk on. However, due to our lifestyles and shoe choices, our feet are often the weakest part of the body. The streng...

  • Video 438 | Mobility: Supination (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Every joint can pronate and supinate, as muscles are constantly resisting and collapsing under gravity to give us the power to move. When we cannot pronate efficiently, we cannot absorb enough elastic energy to propel our body to move forward.

    In this video, jump start muscles in the lower le...

  • Video 437 | Mobility: Pronation (15 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    Every joint can pronate and supinate, as muscles are constantly resisting and collapsing under gravity to give us the power to move. When we cannot pronate efficiently, we cannot absorb enough elastic energy to propel our body to move forward.

    In this video, jump start muscles in the lower le...

  • Video 319 | FIS Lower Leg and Foot (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    The foot is truly the foundation of all movement. In this therapeutic routine, experience standing and seated exercises for the lower leg and foot. You will need a chair for seated exercises and to be able to focus on the feet in standing balance work. A circular band will be used to add resis...

  • Video 386 | Plantar Fasciitis Therapy (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This integrated full-body workout addresses some of the common muscle issues that cause plantar fasciitis. Learn how to strengthen muscles of the foot and ankle to improve foot rigidity in forward propulsion. Also, understand the need for the foot to have enough mobility to adapt to the surface...

  • Video 417 | Holistic Foot and Ankle Workout (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    The foot is the foundation and is influenced by other joints in the body as well as the floor. The foot, ankle and lower leg adapt to the ground by pronating and supinating, causing the knee, hip, spine, and shoulder to take on similar motions.

    In this therapeutic strength routine, we will look...

  • Video 376 | Foot and Foundations (30 minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    This workout starts with several intrinsic foot exercises to strengthen the bottom of the feet. Next, transition into some of the major muscles of the lower leg, working on plantar flexors and dorsiflexors using a chair.

    As we take an integrated approach to strengthening the feet, we will be ...

  • Video 596 | Quads and Calves Supersets (45 mins) with Lauren Eirk

    This challenging resistance training routine incorporates five supersets for the quadriceps, gastrocnemius, and soleus muscles using dumbbells, bodyweight calisthenics, and integrated isometric postions for hypertrophy goals. Each superset features one dumbbell exercise for the legs or ankles, o...

  • Video 467 | Ankle Mobility (45 Minutes) with Lauren Eirk

    From a seated position, we begin the workout with a range of motion assessment in:
    plantarflexion / dorsiflexion
    eversion / inversion
    abduction / adduction

    With direction about where you feel limited, we will practice several ankle mobility exercises that are designed to improve muscular respons...

  • Video 377 | Improve Your Balance (15 Minutes) with Lauren EIrk

    In our daily life, we may not always be able to predict how the external environment will challenge our body. Our muscles need to be able to contract accordingly to create muscle contractions to maintain joint stability.

    In this video, strengthen the foot, ankle, knees, and hips to improve mus...