How to get a Walking Stride Using the Best Technique

this mid/forefoot foot striking is wrong. for running, yes. for walking this is incorrect. I would need to jump into the video to demonstrate why and how. toooo much to say.

Thank you. After a broken leg surgery the therapist kept saying heel toe. Not workin! This is ��

Fascinating and with the potential to solve a lot of problems. Pity that most family doctors are unaware of such considerations. Many thanks for informative video.

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Walking naturally is the best way to walk. If you have a walking imbalance then fix it, meaning your posture is off, your feet alignment make you walk weird etc. Fix it and then go back to walking normally. Just do you and don’t worry about people looking at you. Alot of people starting walking awkard bc of self conscious issues.

but the area of my heel is not flat like the bottom of my foot, so my leg wobbles when I land on my heel

Forefoot and midfoot striking is only for running! You need to roll from heel to forefoot when walking. That is the most energy efficient way to walk. If you constantly land on your forefoot your calves will always be tight.

Hey what’s up I need some help do you have an email it’s too long to post on here but I been in pain for a long time and it’s driving me crazy

This is bullshit, I can’t believe I’m just learning this now, just got me some xero shoes ordered aswell

Ah finally! I always ran landing on my forefoot, but somehow walked landing on my heel. This way of walking feels so much more fluid and natural! And I had to learn it, because I’m walking barefoot most of the time now.
I can’t wait to see how this will impact the knee and lower back pain I have.
Thank you for sharing!

There’s some great info in this and it’s nicely produced. My only feed back is I’d like to see and hear a bit more about the windlass mechanism. Better understand how and why it works would lend validity to the practice. Thanks for a great video! ^_^

Thank you. I was definitely a heel walker and my hips joints often hurt.

Hmm not sure about avoiding the heel. I buy the roll foot thing tho. Logically it looks and feels normal to set down the heel to get more power and roll the whole foot over. The heel and it’s underside is also very puffy and made to take that damp. And to land with your front foot when running or similar sounds very bad. You also block the natural movement and motion by landing like that in your video. Does not look natural. Landing on heel works like a wheel and it is pulls your whole body and foot forward. Probably where the name originates.

you don’t have enough likes for how much you are helping people. Thank you for this video. I’ve recently realized I’ve been walking wrong my whole life because, partially because I’ve never been shown, partially because of the shoes I’ve been told I need. Barefoot/minimalist lifestyle has literally saved my life. Thank you again for explaining the mechanics so detailed.

This is helpful! I walk wrong! And I will try to implement that.
I am a heavy footer!

I wish there was a video on how to correct children

Shoes with cushioned heels, especially thick ones, force you to heel strike and can cause more ankle pronation.
Flat flexible shoes help with more natural movements.

A trick I learned from Callanetics. In standing posture, do some pelvis tilts… standing straight with a long neck, “curl” your pelvis up toward your chin, not a hard curl, just gentle tilt and tension. Obviously, the pelvis moves only an inch or so, but this creates the correct tension to your low abdomen and at the same time keeps your lower spine from “sagging”. Practice while standing, then practice while walking… it feels awkward at first, but soon it come naturally…. produces excellent walking posture.

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Wish you used more practical ��let me just stick to my terrible walking ��

What is this toy? I want something like that. Would be great to explain my mother and maybe some other people why they should stop trying to ram those heels into the ground.

Then why most therapist says heel to toe walking is correct form of walking?

I have been on crutches following multiple surgeries on left leg years, I am completely unable to walk without my crutch as I limp terribly pain isn’t an issue just completely lost my gait I am walking literally like a duck. Can you help me?

This guy gets it.
The video with 1.8 million views doesn’t even show the dude’s feet!
I changed the way I walk because I was a heel striker.
Glad this dude agrees with how I’m walking now.

What happened to me is a sat crisscross So much it hurt my feet and legs so then I couldn’t walk 100% the right way and have to wait a couple seconds after I get it up to walk how I do again

Because of front foot injury before 3 months I walked putting maximum pressure on my heel.After recovery of injury now I developed bad habit of putting pressure backward.I can walk upward comfortably on stairs but on flat surface there is painful pressure on my calf muscles & heel.So I can’t move forward easily on flat surface.What can I do now?Is there any exercise for this? Please help me..!!

Going back and watching this old video, just reaffirmed that I am following the right guy. You have come a long way with your health and fitness man, impressive.

What I find so worrying about landing on the heel is that your leg is stretched, meaning that it cannot “spring”, meaning that all the weight of your body will not be softened by the leg bending, but will just go as a shock all the way up through the leg back and neck.

Hi, I like your tips. I am going through a serious problem. People say that I walk like Sanjay Dutt who’s a renowned personality. However, I am a very thin man as compared to him. That style does not suits me and everyone makes fun of me. I don’t know when I got habitual of this walking style with swinging shoulders and upper body but now I want to get rid of that walking style. I am sharing a link. Please watch how this celebrity walks and suggest me some tips so that I should walk normal not like him. It’s a very old bad habit of mine, I don’t know whether I would be able to ever change it:(

Link: https://youtu.be/i-z4RRx3ymc

Thank you for stopping my flat footed walking. No more shall I be the Penguin. This video worked from my first walk. Thank you

Very enlightening and matches the way Eliud Kipchoge (world record marathoner) runs

people say I look “handsome” or something like that but it just gives me anxiety because I feel like they are trying to make me feel better about the way I walk, or is it just my sharp jawline that causes the comment? Nahh my weird ass walk ��

Directions unclear… I ended up on a plane with a happy meal up my ass

I’m not sure about this. I agree that walking should be a gentle activity without pounding the heel, but I don’t know that a toe-first technique is natural or better. Humans were walking heel-first over 3 million years ago ( https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/why-we-walk-our-heels-instead-our-toes) and people who grew up walking without modern shoes can be observed to walk heel first ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1pXk48a0E0).
For running I think there’s evidence that a forefoot or midfoot strike is better/more natural for most (although I think this has been over-exaggerated, IMO the more important factor is landing under your body, gently and, again, without pounding).

I heard not to start forewalking in shoes right away that will lead to injury, if you want to start forewalking start on grass barefoot.

Thanks everyone for the many likes and shares of this video. Just to make the point even clearer: compare the tibialis anterior muscle (the one you use to lift your foot upwards (dorsiflexion)) that runs along your shin and your calf muscles (the gastrocnemius and peroneus). The latter are extremely strong and thick, while the former is much thinner.
If you were supposed to actively lift (dorsiflexion) your foot (and your two-pound hiking boots) every time you took a step, nature would have provided you with a much stronger muscle, just like your calves.
Overexertion of the tibialis anterior can contribute to shin splints (MTSS).

I tired this today is it normal to be sore in your calves if you start walking this way

Can you do a video on overstriding? Or is learning how to stop overstriding the same as for running? As I overstride, leading to a slow forefoot-strike walk which is effortful, painful and very insufficient. Thank you!

Thank you sir….for the informative tips.i have been flexing one ankle without knowing,all my life.will practice walking relaxing ankles and provide you my experience after a week or 10 days.To add more i practiced it soon aftr watching your video and it feels grt.

Who is here because you have lost feeling in your legs and can no longer walk!

I’ve been stuck in one place for hours, thanks to you I can now leave

Holy shit I have so many problems: Pelvic tilt, duck walk, rounded sholders, pain in upper back, eye sight problems…
Edit: overweight

If you are here i think your parents should have shame on you xd

Nice…but wish you have elaborated more….especially for people with flat feet

Do you really mean that the toes are dorsiflexed? dont you mean that the toes are pushing down on the ground? I thought dorsiflexion was when you raise the toes?

Ok so my feet is always like
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And I feel like I walk weird

Man, you just nailed the solution to anterior pelvic tilt. Thank you. God bless jah!

I find this to be most correct and easy explanation how to walk correctly. But there is one thing missing. You need more slightly more flexion in the knees during the walking. walking on straighter leg doesn’t utilize the shock-absorption capabilities of the knee joint.

Heel striking will cause joint discomfort, shin splints and a culminating of other problems. Forefoot striking will allow the body’s biometrics to properly cushion your stride

The researched finding is that “the African adult male foot has some structural differences over and above those differences between one person and the next, coming from ethnicity. – Eg, a lower long medial arch, a rounded curve to the profile of the heel,. The lower long medial arch that is prevalent is normal rather than pathological.” Do your instructions take these into account?

I tell you how i am recovering my problem of walking like penguins
First main thing is tight your glutes while walking
Chin up
And move your shoulder little back and chest out
Thats how i am doing hope it will help you

Can you also explain how to use the shoulders and arms while walking?

The ball of foot striking first is bar-none the most MULTI-VERSAL form of movement from walking to running to skulking and is the most BIO MECHANICALLY EFFICIENT! It tremendously helped me as a pedestrian walk or traverse any kind of terrain far better thanks to being able to contact the ground with such a spring from the ball of the foot first, enabling me gauge any terrain irregularities/variables, giving me plenty of options on my next step especially with the understanding of the concept lf weight distribution from my Tai Chi training. The normal/hoi polloi heel-first striking has sprained my ankles often in the past because it had absolutely no spring especially on terrains with plenty of unforeseen variables (crevices, grooves, abrupt slopes, etc.) other than pavements (very little variables except slope) that has been cultivated since the Neolithic Revolution. I only recently discovered that walking heel-first is only for PAVED TERRAIN with single to very little variables (crevices, grooves, potholes, etc.) because it is the most efficient and quickest form of walking ONLY on those circumstances.

You see, ever since the Neolithic Revolution in human history, FOOTWEAR AND PAVEMENTS that connected towns, villages and eventually cities became the traveling trademark of the CIVILIZED PEDESTRIAN so it became far more efficient and faster to walk heel first on such a paved terrain with very little aforementioned variables at the cost of stability.

Just a month ago, I have began to utilize the ball of foot first contact on the ground in all circumstances other than purely smooth pavement.

**By the way, I had fun walking through extremely irregular terrain littered with rocks with my eyes never pointing down and not a single ankle sprain thanks to the spring it gave me!

**I even easily bested all my classmates at traversing the bottom of a waterfall littered with various sizes of rocks and terrain irregularities without needing any hand assistance nor grabbing onto any objects with the hands for support!
In this case, think about how predominantly nocturnal animals (wolves, tigers, etc.) run without seeing every step they take on such a natural terrain with many aforementioned unforeseen variables without spraining their ankles once. Why can’t the same be applied to humans?!

Workout and eat healthy this will fix your posture thats how I fixed mine ��

I’m knock kneeded and you know what that walk looks like�� Betty Boop

I’m annoyed at myself that I have to look this up. Idk what’s wrong with my feet, I think they’re flat, but idk. When I stand, I can see how the inner part of my feet always warp my shoes like there is more weight on the arch area and it looks like my ankles curve inwards. No one ever pointed it out to me til recently and I’m 23. I walk like a damn lazy penguin/duck. My posture sucks, I don’t know honestly what it feels like to be correctly aligned. We’ll see how this goes.

I always think on how about if I will walk on how my body wants to walk and it goes on like I’m wanna to have a fight which I don’t. cuz I really fake my walk because of my social anxiety,

I’ve walked in my toes for 22 years now. Kind of gives me a funny looking walk. I can feel the tendons being tight when you rub your finger down the arch center of the foot. Ant idea I how I can practice a normal walk? I’ve tried the heel to toe method and I’m told it looks the same as me walking on my toes. How I have no clue.

Great video thank you.
I feel contraction in the core that moove my pelvic tilt a good position but i can’t feel a real contraction in the glutes when i walk even if i try, that’s normal?

“hidden” high quality content. I was just studing about body language and looked for exemples. I just tested everything and it is awesome. Nice video!