The Best Stretch For Your Body Takes Less Than 10 Minutes

Do you have plantar fasciitis? If you are looking to treat your foot, you may be setting yourself up for failure.

The cause of the pain in your heel is your tight calves. Your tight calves increase mechanical stress on the bone, joints, tendons and ligaments in your foot and ankle.

Rather than look to your foot to find pain relief—or rather than lengthen your Achilles tendon through surgery—you can follow a stretching program to stretch your gastrocnemius/calf to eliminate the pain and reverse the damage.

This is not the kind of stretching you do before or after you workout. It’s a daily stretching habit that is done separate from your workouts.

This calf stretching program should be done for 3 minutes, 3 times a day. Period.

This begs the question: why is the optimal stretching time 9 minutes per day?

Just like the One Stretch was born out of Dr. James Amis’ 30 years as an orthopedic surgeon with a foot and ankle specialty, the stretching program has evolved and been optimized over that time as well.

This is a number that is based on Dr. James Amis experience and feedback with thousands of patients over that time.

He has seen patients react in all ways to the recommended stretching protocol: some ignore it, some fully execute it, and still others start strong, but then stop stretching or start to let their new habit slip over time.

Regardless, after more than two decades of offering this stretching recommendation, Dr. James Amis knows that stretching more than 9 minutes produces no better results and this is why 9 minutes is the magic number.