How do your Calves Measure up?

To check if you have adequate calf strength for your dance performance, try this test of muscular endurance/calves measure. A dancer with good muscular endurance should be able to complete 30 single leg rises in parallel at a slow, controlled pace (around 6 seconds per rep). This is one measure, a dance physiotherapist can use to assess readiness for pointe, return to dance from injury, and suitability for choreography.

Read the blogs the perfect relevé and how much point should a dancer have? for further dance fitness tests.

This plus other tips are included in the dancer’s handbook.