How to CYCLE WALK Walking Technique Exercise
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- Cycle Walking exercise will help you master smooth, no impact walking technique. This simple exercise is easier to learn than Tai Chi Walking, so it is a perfect practice to add to your routine. This technique is similar to gimbal walking, which is used to shoot smooth, no bounce, video while walking. We can transition from the cycle walk directly into a stand with perfect posture. We can also transition from the cycle walk directly into normal gait, with perfect posture, grace, and fluidity. This practice will help you stop leaning forward and landing with a heavy heel strike. It will also help correct duck foot walking, teaching your core how to place your feet facing forward.
This is a Walking Code exercise created by Dr. Todd Martin, Family Medicine physician, dance instructor, and Tai Chi practitioner.
Benefits include:
Lower impact walking, better spinal alignment, reduced risk of plantar fasciitis, heel pain, knee pain, hip pain, and lower back pain. This will also help correct forward head posture. Improve your balance by learning better coordination between your upper body and lower body. Strengthen your glutes (gluteus medius and gluteus maximus) and your hip flexors.
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Learn better walking by studying the Walking Code. Leave a comment and let me know if these walking technique videos are helping you. Get The Walking Code Ebook to follow along with the course and videos.
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This helped to release a very tight psoas & QL that I’ve been enduring for months. Thank you so much for providing such great info much appreciated. The push/pull was a game changer
My pleasure. I am glad it helped.
I’m trying to follow your examples. Thank you for this 🙏
You’re welcome
🙏🏼 thank you Dr!
My pleasure!
Thanks Dr🍀This Vedio is very helpful And well explained!!!🫒
Most welcome!
Really cool. Makes me think of circle walking keeping the same height all the time. When it is warmer I can watch arm swings. Especially on women…if they have a bag on one shoulder, do you ever notice how far back their arm swings?
They are both good exercises to help understand movement better.
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Walk with slightly bend kness is good so i think
The knees should not be flexed as much as I am doing in this exercise. When walking normally, both knees are near full extension, but not locked, at the point of heel contact.
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Just done. Enjoy
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Me again! 🥸 My question is about the gluteus medius. You've mentioned that in a couple of videos that I've seen. Why not the famous gluteus maximus? What's the difference between the work they do? --NOT 'asking for a friend': asking for me! 😄
The gluteus maximus is used to push, like pushing up when going up stairs. When walking on flat ground, there is no need to push. The gluteus maximus does help decelerate the forward leg after it hits the ground, but it is a completely passive action, so people should not be thinking about it. You should watch some of my videos on the glutes and how to use the hips when walking. The gluteus medius keeps the pelvis from tipping over anytime we are on one leg. It is also passive, but weakness prevents people from keeping balanced on one leg. The way most videos talk about using the Glutes when they are talking about walking is wrong. We do not push ourselves forward.
@@ToddMartinMD OK, thanks, I'll try to keep that in mind (I do all kinds of leg fitness that makes it hard to say what, among the thighs, hips, and buns, is doing the most work). Whether medius or maximus, I think I/we benefit from getting to a point where the posterior can really help power our actions. Anyway, thanks doc : )
@amandajstar Specific actions require specific muscle coordination. We should not be trying to use a muscle that is not designed for a certain function just because it is a big muscle. That isn’t how our bodies are designed. What I teach is how to coordinate your core muscles properly.
@@ToddMartinMD Ah yes, the core, which seems to be terra incognita -- an unknown frontier -- in many people's minds.
@@ToddMartinMD But yes, regarding the work different muscles properly do -- point taken : )