Look after your legs

Adopt the position pictured, bend your foot back towards you and then relax it.

Repeat 15 times and then swap legs.

This will stretch your calf and thigh muscles.

This seemed like a nice lazy one to do on a Sunday; sitting down and exercising holds a lot of appeal for me.

It proved to be quite deceptive though - by the time I reached fifteen of the exercises on the first leg I could tell that I really was working my muscles. I pulled my toes back as far as I could, to get the maximum effect, and it did feel like I was really stretching out my calf muscles.

This is a good little exercise that I could do surreptitiously under my desk at work.