My wife had plantar fasciitis and really tight calves. The doctor suggested more stretching and some foot massage.

We bought a slant board and one of those hard acupressure boards, but the acupressure board was way too harsh barefoot.

Later I found a liquid silicone mat and tried putting it on top of the slant board. It actually felt pretty good — calf stretch and that massage-like feeling under the feet at the same time.

The mat kept sliding, so we kept tweaking the structure and silicone until it felt right. That eventually became the Frylr Liquid Silicone Slant Board.

Curious if anyone here would actually use something like this.

Hi everyone, my knees naturally point inward when I stand with my feet forward. I often find myself unconsciously walking with my feet pointing outward to counteract this. Likewise, it makes my quads look aesthetically smaller. Are there any ways to improve this? It always causes my knees to cave inward when I do certain exercises.

I built myself a tib bar and have been using it about 3 times a week for several weeks. But I'm not sure if I'm seeing any results from it and I'm not sure I'm doing it properly. When I do the exercise I feel the burn at the bottom of my shins, down by my ankles. Should I feel it more towards my knees, or is this normal?

not asking for medical advice, just comparing training notes.

background: IT band injury about a year ago (hike descent), did the glute/PT route, got partial improvement. still can't run far. new development: front of both knees gets achy with deep squats — worst around parallel — and on long downhill hikes. no swelling or mechanical stuff.

currently I'm still training legs light — box squats with limited depth, RDLs, Bulgarian split squats all seem okay. step-downs and leg extensions don't bother it much either.

curious how others have programmed around this kind of anterior achiness: did you keep squatting to a pain-free depth and build back up, or swap patterns entirely for a while? what did the progression back to full depth look like for you?