Self-examination: Do you have O-shaped legs?
When standing in front of the mirror, pay attention to whether your knees are close together in a natural standing posture.
If your knees can come together naturally, then congratulations, you have enviable beautiful legs, because your leg shape is not an O-shaped leg: if you clamp your knees hard enough to bring them together, it is also very difficult. Fortunately, you only have moderately mild O-shaped legs. At this time, you can often practice putting your feet together to improve it.
If your knees can’t close together even if you clamp them hard, then you have a severe O-shaped leg. This has a great impact on the overall perfect figure, and you need to spend time correcting it.
To determine whether your O-shaped legs are serious, you can also use a ruler to measure them: if the normal knee distance is less than 3 cm, it is considered mild. The normal knee distance is between 3-10 cm, which is considered moderate. A normal knee distance greater than 10 cm is considered severe.
Tips: The normal knee distance is the distance between the knees when standing naturally without deliberately clamping them.
Why does the leg shape become O-shaped?
1. The calf muscles expand outward
People with O-shaped legs usually use the outside of the leg when standing and walking. The muscles are exerting force, but the inner side cannot use force. Therefore, the leg muscles are unevenly developed, with more muscles on the outside and less muscles on the inside. In this way, the outline of the leg muscles formed is curved, giving the impression that the bones are bent. In fact, not all bones are bent, only a few are truly bent.
2. The bones are bent
Only a few people's O-shaped legs belong to this category, mainly because the body's nutrition does not keep up with the growth and development period or the walking posture Caused by improper sitting posture, if you want to determine whether the bones are bent, the most direct way is to take an X-ray.
4 ways to correct O-shaped legs to make your legs longer and more beautiful
Visually, people with O-shaped legs often look shorter than normal. Therefore, after correction of O-shaped legs, not only can the height and leg length be truly increased, but the proportion of the legs can also be visually increased. If your O-shaped legs are not serious enough to affect your health, such as arthritis, etc., you can try to correct them at home. Below we will recommend some good correction methods for you:
1. Adjust walking posture
People with O-shaped legs mostly walk in an outward shape, that is, when walking, their feet The tips point outwards. When walking, the legs will exert force outwards, and the knee joints will be forced outwards. Over time, the knee joints will be unable to stay together when standing, turning into O-shaped legs. Therefore, you must first adjust your walking posture and learn to put your center of gravity on the inside of your legs. Good walking posture should be upright, with the abdomen drawn in and the waist straight, with the eyes looking straight ahead, the arms relaxed and swinging naturally on both sides of the body, the toes pointed slightly outward or straight ahead, and the strides even.
When you first adjust it, you may feel it's awkward, as if you can't walk, but it will become natural after a while.
2. Remember to do the clamping action whenever you have time
Whether you are waiting for the bus, in the office, or watching TV, you must always remember to straighten your legs and clamp them firmly. Knee, 3-5 times a day, about 15 minutes each time. This not only corrects the shape of the legs, but also has the effect of slimming the legs over time, especially the thighs.
3. Bandage correction method
If your legs and knees are O-shaped legs that rotate outwards (it is easy to walk with a splay), because the degree of bending is serious. Therefore, in addition to clamping exercises, it is best to use binding methods for correction.
Prepare elastic rubber bands or long cloth straps and wrap them evenly around your legs to help tighten them.
1) First sit on a chair and put your legs together. Tie the rubber band evenly below the knees and above the heels.
2) If the binding used is not an elastic rubber band. Before binding, put a towel on the inside of the heel and the inside of the knee to avoid pain. When tying it for the first time, don't tighten it too much.
3) Stand up after being tied up. Remember to straighten your body, raise your head and chest, and stand for about 15 minutes. If you feel pain or numbness when standing, it means the binding is too tight. At this time, you need to untie it again. It is best to tie up twice a day.
4) You can also squat while holding on to the railing or chair back with both hands. Repeat the action of standing up for about 15 minutes each time.
4. Squat correction method exercises the inner calf muscles
Put your feet shoulder-width apart, buckle your feet slightly in, and buckle your knees in to squat and stand up. There is no need to squat down completely. One group of 20 times, do 2 to 4 groups every day. If you stick to it for a month, you will see the results.
Warm Tips:
O-shaped legs are the result of long-term accumulation of bad habits, so you should not be too hasty to correct them, but must maintain a balance.
I sincerely hope to help you!