Exercise · Foot

Towel scrunch

A towel on the floor, and you drag it toward you using only your toes. The target is the small muscles inside the foot itself — Momentum's lower-body chart lists the intrinsic foot muscles as inhibited, meaning present but not switching on, and names weak arch control during gait as the movement failure behind plantar fasciitis. These muscles are the arch's active support. When they do not work, the plantar fascia becomes the only thing holding the arch up, which is roughly the definition of the problem. This is the foot half of the running flow's activate step.