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In article <1993Jan25.172318.11066@walter.cray.com> glex@nitro.cray.com (Jeff Gleixner) writes:
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>In article <25413@galaxy.ucr.edu>, samari@watnxt2.ucr.edu (Tammy Woodley) writes:
>> > The term "shin splints" means pain in the lower leg, and a more
>> > 
>> is due to the muscle on the back of the calf being stronger than on the front.   
>> your toes on the end of the stair and lower your heal past the edge of the  
>> stair, lift up, go down, lift up, go down etc....  This should help strengthen  
>> the muscle in the front. :)
>not!  This exercise, better known as "standing CALF raises", will do nothing
>to the front of the leg.  Now if you turn around so your heels are anchored
>and then you do them, that will hit the front. 
>-- 
>glex@nitro.cray.com  === "Difficult tasks are never easy..."

... just my $0.02 ...

I agree with you  Jeff, but I just wanted to say that when I do calf presses
(on the leg press machine) my shins get incredibly fried!  Can't explain
it, but the do... (I do do *full* reps, so my toes are being pushed way
back to my shins, that probably has something to do with it.)

Ron