# @elastaboy on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZc5Aj0Tb3i
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66717852-elastaboy-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/e276cd13b5.jpg
- **Posted:** 2026-06-11T15:58:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Jake Blundell (@elastaboy) — https://gondola.cc/elastaboy

## Caption

Your shoes killed 1 muscle in your big toe. Now your arch, ankle and knee are all compensating for it.
You don’t have weak feet. You have a big toe that forgot how to do its job.

The adductor hallucis is a muscle most people have never heard of, but it runs along the inside of your foot and it’s responsible for two critical functions: keeping your big toe aligned and supporting your medial arch. Modern shoes, especially anything with a narrow toe box, do all the stabilizing work for this muscle. Over years, it atrophies. Your big toe drifts. Your arch loses its primary support. And here’s where it gets interesting. The body doesn’t just let the foot collapse without a fight. Your tibialis posterior, the deep calf muscle that also supports the arch, starts overworking to compensate. Your peroneals on the outer ankle tighten up. Your gluteus medius fires harder to prevent your knee from caving. You end up with pain in your calves, your ankles, your knees, even your hips, and the original cause was a single dormant toe muscle.

This reel covers three banded drills that progressively reload the adductor hallucis and rebuild your foot’s natural stability from the ground up.

Save this for your next session.

—

Type BASICS below and I’ll send you the Grade 1 Mobility follow-along programme. Plug and play, 15 minutes a day, built for any level. No thinking required, you move with me, you get mobile.

#Elastaboy #mobility #FootRehab #BigToe #KneePain

## Stats

- **Views:** 11,025
- **Likes:** 484
- **Shares:** 0
- **Comments:** 2

## Tags

mobility, footrehab, elastaboy, bigtoe, kneepain

---
Copyright (c) Gondola