3 Ways to Stronger Legs
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Massage
Massaging your feet regularly helps in circulation so that more nutrients reach weak muscles so that they can be strengthened.
- Take some hot coconut or mustard oil
- Using soft strokes, massage your weak feet for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Do it twice to thrice a day as per need
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Muscle Strengthening Exercises
You can strengthen the weak feet by using a series of exercises that target all the major leg muscles.
In some good exercises, you can do at home with a heel slide, quad press, straightening legs, strengthening tension, squat, lungs, lie towards hip hijacking. You should do these exercises 3 or 4 times per week, provided they do not cause the pain or increase.
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Healthy Diet
- To reduce the weakness in the legs, including healthy proteins in your diet. Some good sources of protein are eggs, curd, soya bean, and nuts.
- As muscle weakness can indicate potassium deficiency, eat more potassium-rich foods such as sweet potato with baked potatoes and skin, banana, plum, raisins, prune juice and tomato juice.
- Magnesium also improves the health of the muscles, so foods containing magnesium such as pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, lima beans, and spinach.
- To prevent numbness in your feet and build stronger muscles, eat more vitamin B foods. Some good sources of B vitamins include grains, eggs, pulses, bananas, wheat seeds, beans, fish, porridge, cheese, and yogurt.