How to Walk (In Response to Bob and Brad) @BobandBrad In-Depth

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My dad at 23 "I think ill buy a house Me at 23 " how to walk"

Never once in my life I every thought I'd watch a tutorial on how to walk

It's crazy how far away from nature we are that a video on how to properly walk is fascinating.

I found that a good cue to walk like this is to imagine that even when you're walking across level ground, you are actually walking up very low steps/stairs that are 1 inch tall. I find that walking up (normal height) stairs makes me naturally do the kind of walking you're advocating, and following this cue for level ground to imagine walking up very low steps does all the things you're listing: slight bend/hinge at ankles + knees + hips, lifting each step with hip flexors, striking and bearing most weight on mid/forefoot, and pushing off using extension of all those joints including the glutes. It's an easy external cue that allows me to instinctively walk this way.

This should be required viewing for ALL TODDLERS. I wish I had seen this when I was first learning how to walk.

As a baby this is really useful

I remember reading this walking method in a book about "how to be a ninja" back when I was a preteen. The reasons it suggested forefoot walking was because it was quieter and you had a more sure step when walking on uneven ground. I never equated "quieter" with "less stress" until watching your video.

Having been in the military, this is very good information. When you are marching for hours across uneven terrain and underbrush, sometimes in near total darkness, you learn very quickly that tromping around heel striking is an easy path to a sprained ankle, not to mention quickly fatiguing the few small muscles you are relying on. Some may adapt by turning their feet outwards to an exaggerated degree, using biomechanics to prevent underpronation and rolling the feet. Useful in some situations, but not always. Instead, you learn to lean more on your full body, spreading your weight evenly, shifting it smoothly, and using your biggest muscles to maintain forward propulsion and traverse uneven terrain efficiently and with stability. Obviously there are some added differences in gait when you're loaded, also depending on your pack's load distribution features, but much still applies.

Was taught this way of walking by Japanese over 50 years ago - it has made walking a constant pleasure. Great when you realise you have your own shock absorbers built in. Leaning INTo the walk makes it effortless.

I'm 65, and improving my walking, squatting and balance are super important to my health. I like how this method ties it all together.

I learned of this as 'Fox Walking' back in my early teens when I was obsessively studying martial arts. I taught myself to walk this way back then largely as a conceit as it is also an extremely stealthy way of walking. It is now completely ingrained habit. I have roommates who wish I would wear a bell around the house because I am frequently startling them by being somewhere they do not expect. They cannot hear my approach.

Glad you included hip flexors in your video. Most just focus on powering from glutes. I use the belly button as my cue for client. "Make believe your legs start at your belley button." This gets them out of quad walking and makes it easy to get more extension in the frontal plane. I think of the heel as landing or controlling a fall and that the motion of the bottom of the foot is akin to a wheel, thus dispersing energy and stress, and then the push off with the big toe.

At 70 years old I’m relearning to walk properly after 11 years of Meneires disease which has wrecked my balance. Heel striking makes me feel unsteady and out of balance and causes all kinds of body pain so I quit walking. After using your methods and watching this video(which I’m going to watch again and again) I can walk fairly steadily with no pain. I am deeply grateful you made this video. It’s going to take a little relearning but I can do this!

I'm a barefoot country girl. Your video shows how I always walked. At some point in elementary (I think around 6th grade), I was told I was walking incorrectly. I've been walking heel toe since. I never walk heel toe while barefooted though so it will be no problem to revert back to my natural walk on all surfaces.

Along with your other videos you have really helped me. I was plagued in my running and walking with heel pain and achillies problems. I tried more heavily padded running shoes, then shoe insoles , all to no avail After 12 months of persistent pain, and trying what i thought was everything , this has changed my life. I thought as i had turned 60 it was just down to old age, that i now encountering pain from running and walking Ive been following your guide for two weeks, and my foot is 90% better already, im actually pain free , thankyou i do find myself occasionally heel striking when i have lost focus, i guess it's just a bad habit , but it's starting to feel more normal now, to walk as you instruct , and again i thankyou

This is how I used to walk naturally indoors. It feels so much more comfortable and I will start to walk outdoors like this too. This is without doubt the best video for healthy walking. Your delivery is top notch (you also have a lovely calming voice). Thank you.

I ”learned” how to run using the heel to toe roll when I was a kid in the late 80’s. I got my Nike Air running shoes with the latest heel cushioning technology... but I thought to myself, how can this be the way to run when it takes Nike Air’s to do it? When I walked and played around barefoot, I couldn’t land on my heel the way I ”should”. So how did the stone age people run? How did anyone run before Nike? These questions never got an answer from the grownups back then.

Have flat feet pain after 2km of walk I tried your technique achieved 8km today 😊😄

yes, yes, yes .. i almost hurt my neck watching this from nodding so much, because every sentence is intuitively and practically correct. I'm astounded that the podiatrist I visited a few years back (and got me wearing $300 orthotics) didn't know any of this. Thank you!