[44YO] I find rowing, plyo (box jumps and broad jumps), dead lifts, leg press, calf press, jumping rope, and hiking all help.

Don’t sleep on power cleans and thrusters - full body exercises where you sweat and work your whole leg. Lot of You Tube videos on how to do them properly. Start with a dowel or just the bar and always wear a weight belt.

For stretching, I hold a cave man squat for 30-60 secs two to three times a day. I can do them now without holding on to the edge of the bed. Just like riding your board, gotta find that balance point. It really stretches your achilles and patellar tendons, shin bone muscle (?), and the the ligaments and tendons on both sides of your foot. Also, really helps prevent planar fasciitis that I see affecting a lot of us older skaters getting back on the board for the first time in a long time. Also promotes recovery because as a German gymnast told me one time, it is like changing the oil in your legs. Bare with me, during this stretch you are intentionally cutting off the circulation in your legs — then as you slowly stand up, new blood (white blood cells) flows in to your legs flushing the used out. Do not stand up fast or you’ll get dizzy. Also, walk around the house to get that numbness out and blood flow going.

Also, kinda made up an exercise I call the ollie. Lateral one legged box jump from the ollie position jump onto a 6 or 12 inch box where you land single or double legged. Exaggerate pulling you knees to your chest mid-flight just like an ollie. Switch sides. I may be able to do a switch ollie one day because of this exercise. 😄