Follow along at home with Miss Hannah — Ballet Feet Exercises Daily Workout for Stronger Feet
Get strong, flexible ballet feet! These ballet feet exercises combine stretching and strengthening to improve your foot flexibility, build a higher arch, and give you stronger, more stable demi-pointe and releve. Repeat them regularly and you'll feel the difference in your pointe work, pirouettes and overall balance. Perfect for ballet students, pre-pointe and pointe dancers, and anyone wanting beautiful, strong feet. Follow along with Miss Hannah — no equipment needed. ⏱ CHAPTERS 00:00
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Welcome back everyone. Today we're going to be working on our ballerina feet. I'm going to show you some of my favorite exercises working on our foot strength and our foot flexibility so that you can have gorgeous ballerina feet. As dancers, we want super strong feet not only to look gorgeous in class and stage, but also to help with our Allegro our jumps our leaps and to get
us on pointe faster. Now all of these exercises today can be done in the centre or if you want to grab a chair or a table just to hold onto it for a bit of extra support and let's get started. Let's start by giving our feet and ankles a little warm up before we start. So if you were happy balancing you can take this on one leg.
We're going to do some circles. If you want to hold onto a chair or worktop if that is OK. So nice outward circles. One way and reverse circle it around the other way. Good job and changing feet so outward. Circles first just warming up those ankles an inward circles. Good nice everyone. Now we're going to take our feet together in parallel and we're just going to walk
through our feet slowly. So pushing over on our Demi Pointe work in those arch is warming up those feet. Good so remember, if you can let go of your barre, you can do all of these in the middle, testing your balance as well. Good job OK. We're going to take 1 foot now. We're going to lift it up to Demi Pointe and then off to full pointe
back to Demi and down the foot Demi and full Demi and down keep going. Demi pointe, full pointe Good two more Demi, full. Try not to scrunch your toes. Keep those toes along nice. They rises in parallel, next rising up and slowly lower. Now don't let your heels touch the floor. Yeah, they nearly touched the floor and then back to another. Rise weight is evenly spread out
between those toes. All 10 toes on the floor, making sure that we're not sticking our feet in or they're not winging out. Yeah, nice and controlled working those calves as well. We're not going to change the rhythm we're going to do it faster, so we're going to go up, hold, hold, hold down, up, hold, hold, hold down, up, hold, hold good job down so nice fast rise
this time really work in those feet, hold it up and down up. Let's do two more like this down up good, nice and strong. Down up good, well done let's take it into first position next. So we're going to do the same thing. So just nice natural. Turnout wherever is good for you and we're going to take our nice slow rises to start so toes push into
the floor, rise up and slowly down so your heels and nearly going to touch the floor. But don't let them. Great, well done everybody. Keeping those cores engaged heads up shoulders down so we've got lovely posture in the rest of our body. Lovely, let's do one more and now let's do that rhythem. So we go up to 3/4 down, up to 3/4 down, up to three, fourth
down up good, so nice, strong rise down up. Let's do one more like this down up. Good job and just give those feet a little shake out. Well done. Very good so far. OK, what we're going to do next is a Demi plié, so we're going to do in parallel to start with, so taking a Demi plié, then we're going to push over on. That's it right
through your arch straighten an lower again plié and push and lift and lower plié and push and lift good. Squeezing those ankles together. See if you can push right over those arch is. Lovely, great exercise, for strengthening those feet. one more push good now begin to reverse. We go up first up and push heels down and straighten an up and push heels down and straighten. Good job
up push heels down. We're going to do one more up push heels down. And straighten good job if at any point you need to give your calves a little stretch, that is OK. 'cause this is hard work, not only our feet and our ankles, but it gives our calves a good workout as well. When you're ready, we're going to do that same thing, but in first position.
So working those turn out muscles. This time nice and tall. Remember, if you can do them without holding on to anything that is great, but it's your choice. So we start with the plié first. plié. push over straighten and down plié and push over straighten and down. Good nice strong cause squeezing those abs lovely plié trying push over a little bit further to more fully a push
over straighten and down. Last one plié push over Straight and reverse going up. and squeeze heels down and straighten up and push good. Very nice everyone up and push heels down, last one going up and push good. Very nice. Good job and give those legs a little bit of a shake count if needed. Lovely, we're going to do some tendus next so starting in the first position
we're going to go tendus, but keeping our Demi pointe so toes on the floor. Then you're going to do a little flick, so we're going to push off the floor with our toes working those feet goods. They really push off the floor. Through a Demi point pushed to a foot. Good go for a few more push push, nice strong feet. These are gonna really help get strong
feet helping your allegro with all of your jumps in ballet good and changing sides. So story in that foot out good toes on the floor and push push push. Good, so great little exercise for those feet. Push the floor away with those toes to a lovely stretched foot. Very nice good. Last couple. And good job. Well done everyone. Let's give those ankles and feet another nice circle.
Good, make sure we do both sites. And give those calves and nice stretch 'cause they've worked hard as well. Good job so you can hopefully fit this little routine easily into your day. If you start to do it daily or weekly, you're going to notice a big difference with your foot strength and your foot flexibility. Thanks so much for watching everybody. I really hope you enjoyed today's
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