Optimizing Stride Length: 3 Simple Tips for Pain-Free Walking
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2023
- Welcome to our CZcams video on optimizing stride length for pain-free walking! Did you know that the length of your strides can have a significant impact on your knees? Walking with excessively long strides can increase stress on the knee joint, potentially leading to discomfort, pain, and even conditions like arthritis. Fortunately, studies have shown that by reducing stride length, you can effectively reduce the impact on your knees and improve overall joint health.
In this video, we will guide you through three simple tips to help you optimize your stride length for a more comfortable and sustainable walking experience. Our expert presenter will demonstrate these techniques and provide valuable insights to assist you in achieving a pain-free stride.
Throughout the video, you will learn:
The Importance of Stride Length: Understand the relationship between stride length and knee impact. We'll explain why overly long strides can lead to knee pain and the potential for long-term joint issues.
Evaluating Your Current Stride: Learn how to assess your current stride length and identify areas for improvement. We'll provide practical tips for measuring and analyzing your stride to determine whether it falls within the optimal range.
Implementing Optimal Stride Techniques: Discover three simple yet effective techniques to optimize your stride length. Our presenter will demonstrate these techniques step-by-step, ensuring that you understand how to implement them correctly to minimize knee impact.
By following these tips, you can make conscious adjustments to your walking technique, reducing strain on your knees and promoting joint health in the long run. Walking is a wonderful low-impact exercise, and with the right stride length, you can fully enjoy its benefits without worrying about unnecessary discomfort.
Don't let knee pain hold you back from staying active and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Join us in this video and unlock the secrets to optimizing your stride length for pain-free walking. Subscribe to our channel for more valuable tips on fitness, health, and overall well-being. Start walking with confidence and take care of your knees today!
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I definitely look down and lean forward when walking, this is so helpful!!
I am glad it was helpful.
Not lifting the standing leg's heel too soon is a great cue. Will practice.
Great. I hope that helps.
Even after all this time you still have fresh and useful advice about walking. Thanks so much for the effort you put into these lessons. I do use your advice for my frequent 3 mile outdoor walks. At 81 it seems there is still more to learn.
Thank you, Marc. I am always learning, which just seems to lead to more learning.
Thank you Dr! I am searching this knowledge! 🙏🏼
I am glad you found it.
Thank, the benefits following these tips are great .
You are welcome. Thank you.
Another good one.. Thank you!
My pleasure. Glad you liked it.
Another wonderful video, thank you! Almost daily, I work on being more vertical and not looking down so this helped a lot. That is my biggest weakness with walking.
I’m glad this one helped. Practice makes perfect.
Very informative tips for Simply walking!!! 👍👍
Thank you.
Thanks.
My pleasure
Hi Doctor another excellent video,by the way you have shown some people walking in India in this clip,Do you visit India regular basis...if y es would like to meet you in your next visit.thanks
Thank you Dr Martin, I've enjoyed what I've seen to date. However, have you done any videos on how to walk on a treadmill? As repetition is a good way to learn we can duplicate from a side on view, the features of your continuous walking (on the treadmill) without going off the screen as you currently do. Additionally, you can demonstrate how you walk when you increase the pace of the treadmill and also vary the incline etc. Thank you for educating such a forgotten area that's so important to humanity.
I have thought about that, but I don't have a treadmill, and the noise of the treadmill would make talking impractical. I have done multiple videos demonstrating the technique with someone walking side by side videoing with the camera on a stabilizer so you can see the continuous movement without me going off the screen.
@@ToddMartinMD Thank you for your response. Up until now I've had to hold onto the handrails of my treadmill to maintain balance (walking 4 to 5 kph), but since watching some of your relevant videos, I can now walk confidently without holding the rails...Thank you! You could record the treadmill scenes without sound then do a voice over track describing your relevant movements/actions ie no background noise or breathing sounds.
I’m glad the lessons have been helpful. I have considered that option for a treadmill video but opted for having someone film me walking from the side. I do think there are plenty of videos on the channel showing continuous walking that doing a treadmill would be duplicative. Plus, as I said, I don’t have a treadmill.
@@peterward6625 Treadmill walking tends to significantly shorten the stride; surely it is a special case inasmuch one does not need to focus on surroundings while doing it because one is not actually moving (losing the benefits of mental and physical exertion done together). Also, treadmills tend to be used with an incline nowadays.
I agree that treadmill walking is different to normal walking in certain aspects as most people that I know use the treadmill for jogging or running. While I walk outdoors in the morning, at night I use the treadmill and also if the weather isn't good for outdoor walking. I agree you can end up with a shortened stride unless you choose to lengthen your stride. Effectively, a motorised treadmill "forces" you to walk at the speed and incline set which I find assists my outdoor walking pace and now, observing the techniques imparted by Dr Martin.
Great tips. Thank you.
You are very welcome.
Best walking channel in the universe🚶🚶♂🚶♀
Thank you.
And thanks for your support.
@@ToddMartinMD I have a great video suggestion for you, can you check your email?
Dr Martin, I like your channel and content but you should lose the overlaid music at the beginning so we can hear your content more clearly! Just a thought, but of course it's your channel. All the best.
I appreciate the suggestion.
Hi, kindly explain should we focus on swinging leg or standing leg when taking the next step?
I have chronic left flat foot and hyperextented knees and hip issues so chaning my gait:)
I answered this when you asked on a different video.
From the 3nd tip think of the begining of the step as when the movement to bring the heel down is _initiated_ you don't believe it is helpful to try and consciously relate the heel of the rear foot begining to lift to noticing the heel of the front foot starting to actually contact the ground?
I really want people to focus on the movement from the core as they walk. Using the heel lift timing can be a secondary point of reference to test if you are doing it correctly. The timing would be that the rear heel begins to lift as you rotate the core to begin the next step. By the time the forward heel touches, the rear heel should already be fully lifted.
@@ToddMartinMD Thank you.
Heel strike ko improve kaise kare
Are you asking how to heel strike better?
Actually he is asking how to improve our heel strike.
I think, by that, he means how to be walking efficiently with heel strike?
You know I really have trouble walking in a straight line. Any tips ? 😊😊
The techniques in my videos should definitely help. It’s about coordinating your core movement properly.
@@ToddMartinMD which exercises in particular
@@bhavandeepmann5256 You can start here. czcams.com/video/3nnHqsVVmUA/video.html. It is not one video that is going to teach you if you are interested in really correcting the issue. You will need to study multiple.
Sir I become very conscious and loose confident in front of people,,sir any suggestions please,,sir i walk like an drunken men,,this is not my walking habit,,but I develop from 1 of my friend,and i become very confuse while walking,, please suggest me 1 video for me,,
If you are really interested in learning, I don’t think it can be done in one video. I would recommend watching multiple videos and practicing the techniques in them.
@@ToddMartinMDur Right,sir ,,I'm improving a lot now,,becoz I have seen my mistakes in ur video,,thank you sir
What the people with Bowed leg?
It’s hard to say for people with bow legs because that means the gait has been bad for so long them at the whole body structure has changed to accommodate it. There is a study that says people who are bow legged can decrease knee strain by walking more duck footed. I don’t recommend that for most people, but there is a steady showing that might be helpful. It is difficult to walk with normal technique once the whole structure has been changed.
Why is every video of south american or african tribes the opposite, where there stance leg the hip goes into anterior tilt and there is alot of glute activity and the swing leg reflexively goes into posterior tilt of the pelvis
I haven’t observed this.
Such confident ignorance
Why do you say that?
Ignorance comes from those who don't know better
@@merciejo1 comes from false knowledge from content like this
@@matthewlagerlow7130 I think you’re the only ignorant one here. As a professional in gait analysis, Dr Martin is one of the few people who gets a lot of forward locomotion correct. Why don’t you state your point of contention and attempt to be productive?
@@readyfuels17 professional nothing. Dr Todd on fake profiles replying again. Learn to walk