The Best Home Exercise To Improve Circulation In Your Legs

Maybe you’d like to reduce varicose veins; maybe you’d like to avoid peripheral artery disease.

Whatever your motivations, here’s how to do it:

Get the pump going

Did you know that you have a “second heart”? It’s not truly another heart, but cardiologists sometimes refer to it that way when explaining things, since it is a vascular pump system in its own right.

Specifically, it’s a system of muscles, veins, and valves in the back of your lower leg that push blood upwards; valves prevent backflow, while muscles squeeze the veins to move blood.

• How to get your “second heart” pumping: lift your toes towards your knees and then point them down to the floor, and repeat—this action activates circulation in your legs.
• How to get gravity working for you: elevate your feet, and otherwise do exactly the same as we just described. Both variations have their merits, since the first kind forces the “pump” muscles to work more (thus improving vascular tone in the long-run), and the second kind will help the circulation more right there and then.

These exercises can also be done while standing in the kitchen, waiting in line, traveling, lying in bed, or many other situations (choosing as appropriate per whether your legs are or reasonably can be elevated in that place at that time)

For more on all of this plus a visual demonstration, enjoy:

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Want to learn more?

You might also like:

• Remedies To Reduce Varicose Veins (Or Avoid Them Entirely)
• How To Stay A Step Ahead Of Peripheral Artery Disease

Take care!