Epstein Secrets

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own also, so you cover the entire muscle, as shown in Figure 1I-6d. Stop about '% of the way down from the knee because the calf tapers down to the Achilles tendon there and becomes too thin to knead. At that point, you can continue by squeezing the tendon between your thumb and fingers down to the ankl

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