As a rough check to see how much improvement in stretching you need, find a book or two, stack them on a hard surface, and place the balls of your feet on their edge and lower your heels to the ground. Keep changing the book(s) until you find one (or a
stack of two) that starts to make it where you can barely stand straight. Divide the height of the stack by the distance from the stack to the back of your heel. This should be greater than 1/3 (0.3333) which is 18 degrees. To make sure, I would keep
stretching until the ratio is 1/2 or better (30 degrees). This will take many months or forever.
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