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07/23/2026

Ask your child to do one squat. Just one.
Watch what happens:
➡️Do the knees cave inward?
➡️Does the body tip forward?
➡️Do the legs shake?
➡️Does the arch collapse completely?
If YES to any of these — the flat foot is a symptom, nit the source.
The source is systemic weakness. A core that can't stabilize. Legs that can't control load. A body that was never taught to move properly.
Insoles hold the arch up from the outside. They don't fix any of those things.
The starting point isn't a foot exercise. It's a squat — done correctly, gradually, with the whole body engaged.
That one movement trained properly changes more than months of isolated foot work.
👉Comment "COURSE" and I'll send you the full first-month foot correction program — starting with exactly the foundational movements a weak body needs before anything else.

07/23/2026

Verbal cues like "feet straight" or "don't let the ankle roll in" create tension and shift the child's attention to the wrong thing. The foot tightens up and the arch never learns to work independently.

What I do instead? I teach the three points of support first:
1. The big toe
2. The little toe
3. The heel.

When a child learns to press all three into the floor evenly, the arch activates automatically. No forcing, no cueing mid-exercise.
The shift is small; the difference is enormous.

✅Comment "COURSE" below and I'll send you the full Foot Correction Program — including how I teach the three points of support in a way kids actually understand. And other essential details.

07/22/2026

One of the exercises I use most often for children with flat feet isn't a toe exercise.

It's the squat.

Sounds strange?

Here's why.

📌One of the biggest mistakes I see is treating flat feet as if they are only a foot problem. But every time your child walks the foot works together with the ankles, knees, hips, and trunk. If your child struggles to control their hips and knees, the foot has to work much harder to stay stable.

👉That's why I don't train the foot in isolation. I train the whole movement system.

Squats and lunges are not replacing foot exercises. They make foot exercises work better by teaching the body how to control alignment during real-life movement.

❗But only if they are done correctly.

When kids squat, I ask them to:
- keep the arch gently lifted,
- spread the toes and maintain three points of contact with the floor,
- keep the knees tracking over the toes instead of collapsing inward,
- stay tall through the trunk with controlled breathing, and give some other tips to see good and controlled movement.

Now the child isn't just strengthening muscles. They are practicing the movement pattern they'll use every time they stand up, walk, run, or climb stairs.

That's why I include squats and lunges in almost every flat foot program I design because we don't just want a stronger foot. We want a body that helps the foot do its job.

Train the system, not just the symptom.

If you'd like to see exactly how I combine foot exercises with whole-body training,
🧩comment "COURSE" below, and I'll send you the link to the Basic Foot Correction Program including squat modifications and other foot stretching, mobilization and strengthening exercises I use with children just starting to work with their feet.

07/21/2026

Here is what most people aren't saying out loud:
The flat foot itself is rarely the problem.

Flexible flat feet are common in young children, and many improve as children grow, especially when normal movement and physical activity are part of daily life, in children who are physically active, run barefoot, climb, and move freely.

❗The real issue is what modern childhood looks like: Children sit for hours. They wear cushioned shoes from age 2. They don't climb trees or kick footballs in the street for hours. Their feet, ankles, and calves are tight. Their intrinsic foot muscles are weak and under-trained.

Those factors may contribute to poor foot function and make persistent problems more likely.

Not the flat arch itself, but the inactive body around it.

The pediatrician who says "it's normal" is right about the structure.

✅The part many parents never hear: the muscles still need to be trained. Joint mobility still needs to be maintained. A growing foot doesn't just need time, it needs movement.

➡️Comment "COURSE" below, and I'll send you the link to the Basic Foot Correction Program that addresses the actual causes — mobility and strength built consistently during the window that matters.

07/20/2026

The old approach is: here are five exercises, do them daily, come back in a month.

What's the problem?
- No one checks whether the child was ready for those exercises.
- No one explains what correct technique looks like.
- No one tells the parents what to watch for at home.

So the child does the exercises. Imperfectly. Consistently imperfectly!
And in a month, nothing has changed — except now the parent is convinced exercises don't work.

📌Here's what I suggest doing instead:
Start with the simplest possible movement. I don't move forward until it's mastered. Ball massage, basic stretching, and a single toe exercise can take the entire first month — and that is completely correct!

🔸The children who seem to progress slowly at the start because we stay on fundamentals longer — they are the ones who build real technique and real results later.

🔸As for the children who jump ahead — they plateau fast and get frustrated.

❗Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast.

🧩Comment "COURSE" below, and I'll send you the link to the first-month Foot Correction Program — built on this exact approach, starting where your child actually is, not where you wish they were.

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