How to Walk ( forefoot/midfoot )
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2018
- Are you conscious about your walk?
Do you walk with duck feet?
Do you have frequent ankle and foot pain, but no significant incident for which to blame the pain on?
It is often the case that foot and ankle pain is caused by prolonged improper walking pattern that can cause more injury than creating efficiency in movement.
Walking is our (Humans) most fundamental movement, it is the cornerstone of our functionality. The most functional exercise we can conduct is that of proper walking.
This method of walking explained in the video will take some practice and a change in the sequence of muscle activation that will be a bit challenging at first, but will pay off in the long run.
Research link (Pubmed) on the Windlass Mechanism in regards to our locomotion:
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yikes ,i just started forefoot striking ,but i landed on the ball of my feet near the big toe, already did a good 20-30 miles,well well ,i will have to retrain to land near the pinki first witch makes alot more sense as more of the foot is utilized
Thank you for making these videos.
Finally, I can walk
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Nice one bro
Lols
Seriously no laughing matter if you had stroke
Skill unlocked: Walking
As a 28 year old toddler learning how to walk, this is great
Wow. I feel like a 2-year-old learning how to walk again... had no idea I was doing this wrong my whole life. Thank you for teaching us the right way to walk!!
I'm glad to help!
indeed!!
It's probably not your fault, between social restrictions, stress, injuries, and bad modeling in media most of us don't walk naturally.
Tell me about it. I'm disappointed in myself 😂
This guy knows nothing about anatomy. That’s a wrong technique. You have to step from heal to toe, otherwise your heel, knees and back will get weak.
Bro, you’re changing lives! I work 12 hrs on my feet and had hella pain. I started implementing the tips from these videos and the pain went away. God bless man
Like I actually enjoy walking now lmao
Love to hear it! Thanks for watching and doing it.
He's still liking comment from 3 days ago! Love it 😂👏🏼
Studying and applying this right now so I can take proper care of my body. Just as somebody would take care of their dream car, take care of your body. Its literally the most advanced and complex machine on earth.
Great concept to live by! Thanks for watching.
Me: walk across two rooms with my blinds open, get to end of hallway: “wow”
Me: turn around and walk all the way back, “wow”
Me: turn around and walk across the room hallways again, “wow”
Neighbors: peering through their blinds at me “wtf is this chick doing”
😆
I just see SUCH a difference with this walk. And I don’t appear to be stiff in my walk when I do this.. my hips move much more naturally doing this. So fascinating!!!
😂😂
Literally me walking around my apartment at 10 pm lmfao
I personally have undergone ACL surgery and I can't stress enough to say that such an insignificant topic could actually be so important. Who ever wants to watch a video on 'How to walk'? I have flat feet and I always feel instability when I walk, my knees tend to give way. However, the last part of the video really helped me understand the core issue. Thanks
Thanks for watching! Glad to be of help.
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.
Thank you!
This is the only video with a clear visual demonstration of the actual mechanics of walking and not just a whole lot of indecipherable technical jargon. Thank you soooo much ❣️
This has been so eye-opening. I can feel my body responding immediately to begin walking with energy and enthusiasm. Like breaking loose from a straight jacket. All my like I have been walking incorrectly and with restrictive shoes. I can't thank you enough for sharing this life-changing information. God Bless
I have Cerebral palsy and this is beautiful. I am 17 and I’ve been treating my cerebral palsy for 10 years. This is seriously amazing. I’m working to become a physical therapist and this needs to become a tool for all PT. No one really knows how much one small thing such as your big toe being straight with your body can do for you. I used to not be able to physically do that, when I could that changed so much. It took so much pain off of me. Then doing that corrected my ankles that helped my knees then my hips. So all of this is seriously beautiful.
I'm glad you found it helpful. The big toe is the cornerstone of the posterior chain.
You are correct, everything is connected, and small changes make a big difference. Good luck in your work
I have it too! I'm 24 I box I always thought heel strikes was the proper way 🥊
I've noticed a huge difference in my walk. It takes conscious effort at first.. Thank You for posting.
I find I can walk for hours like this with no pain. Incredible, my hips, feet and knees feel amazing. My mobility feels stronger too. By walking like this my legs always feel ready for anything too. No need to stretch or do a warmup because they are already engaged
Excellent! I'm glad you are having a good experience.
I didn't know that I would be learning how to walk at 26 years old, but here I am!
37 here, learning to walk all over again
Same same
26 yo too here. Greetings from Austria 🇦🇹
I'm 32 😛
I'm 30 and I am here to learn
Man, thank you so much for this video. No one took me serious when I said I need to learn to walk again, but you already addressed an issue that a lot of people have and we are not even aware of it. Thanks thanks thanks!
Thank You!
I’ve been in so much pain, I’ve missed out on so much that I have wanted to do because I don’t want to walk or run. I’m 27 and trying to properly learn to walk and fix this issue. Thank you for your videos. You have helped me a lot.
hows the leg pain brotha?
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!
I'm glad you found it helpful. Look at my video on anterior pelvic tilt, even though you may not have it, the exercise strengthens the lower back and has helped alleviate my lower back pain.
How are you doing now?
2 year update?
Update is that I practiced and bought barefoot shoes, but ended up with plantar fasciitis soon after. It started with my feet feeling overworked when I woke up in the morning. They felt tired and somewhat painful. Until I woke up with full on pf one morning. It was incredibly painful. I have to do stretches and I wear nothing but birkenstock or shoes with support for high arches ever since. It's been 2 years and it's still the only way for me to be pain-free.
The lower back pain didn't go away with the exercises. I just recently found out that the cause of my lower back pain is something that only surgery can fix. My c section scar has attached itself to my core muscles. This in turn makes my back weak.
Hi there, I see that I was the last person to comment , and that was 2 years ago.. unfortunately, I was still too busy watching the majority of people heel to toe walking and believed that was the correct way to walk as well as being told by practitioners. Honestly, I have been in so much pain, heel to toe was so unnatural to me, it completely distorted my body. I am a natural forefoot walker and sprinter and was referred to as the "gazelle" in my youth.. I used to glide gracefully until suddenly I forgot how to hold myself and walk. ( life getting in the way) . But, I just have to say again, 2 years on, that your explanation in these videos confirms that I was walking right all along. People have often said I walk strangely.. but it is they who do. So massive thank you, look forward to more enlightening videos. Excellent work.
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Thanks for watching! I will say this, if it feels good, do it.
Your body will respond with pain when it is stressed by your position or movement.
Thank you brother. I am 39 and is never to late to learn. Appreciate it.
I think his trying to say: you don't have to be arched-footed to walk like one and with great efficiency. There is hope for flat-footed individuals. Thank you.
In other words, for some people, the world is FLAT. :-)
Been walking with the forestrike for 6 months now and it feels so much better and natural, I had pain on the lower part of the knee and that went away. 3 months in I started to feel a lot of pain on the upper part of my knee, after researching a bit a think it was called runner's knee. My wife insisted that it was because the way I walked, and it sort of was, but I didn't like the idea of going back to heelstriiking, because forestriking just felt much better. After researching runner's knee I saw on a channel from a physical therapist that the problem is not on the knees, but the vastus medialis and/or lateralis, you should massage them and the knee pain should go away. In my case it was both, massaging them was so painful, but at the same time relieving. Now I use one of those massage rods for a couple minutes in each leg and have next to no pain, hope to be pain free soon. Just a tip for those who may have had the same problem.
Great video! I have been a heel walker for 56 years! Now walking correctly - feeling great!
Excellent!!
I’m here because people make fun of me for my natural walk :(
Did this help you?
Yeah , I know the feeling. Except most folks don't make fun of me. But I do get asked by children ., Which is forgivable. But they don't laugh. They just ask. (It's all good).
Same here 😭
Same
Me too buddy 😭
When u land on mid foot (a little fore foot ball, which highest concentration of muscle) and not on heel you're allowing the air between the mid foot and land to absorb the shock. Also the toes and fore foot spread the shock bcz they're wide and there are gaps in the bones unlike the heel which is a single ball on the rod, less elastic and immediately it propagates shock to the knee and then to your lower back.. this posture correction I realised myself after many experiments, bcz all other walking technique I saw were doing it differently and Everytime I walked with my heel, my knee and lower back used to get sore. Now with this correction I get pain in my calf muscle and thighs which is right! Thanks for confirming my technique!
Yes, you are correct. The heel is best used for stability (especially under load) and pivoting.
Why should you have any pain when walking? He's right about a lot of the things he says but not about landing on the ball of the foot...take small steps and roll over the front of the heel, not the back and not the ball.
@@rbzzzzzrb What, there's nothing left to roll onto. There's no reason to land on your heel.
Just like marching walk
I've struggled for years with barefoot running/walking. This looks promising. Great video
This guy got me more comfortable with being barefoot. I love his tips, giving me a much more graceful walk.
Thank you. After a broken leg surgery the therapist kept saying heel toe. Not workin! This is 🎉
That last point he makes about being aware of aware of where your body is at all times is very important. I was listening to this while I walked my dog, and I dunno if it's because when I walk my dog in the quiet woods near my house, I feel almost high with awareness, or maybe it was the bowl I had smoked beforehand, but i started moving like I was a video game character, specifically Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2. He had great posture, and since it is a 3rd person perspective game, you see him running and walking from behind a lot. So i started walking like him because it reminded me of this guy's very deliberate movement.
I think that's the key, the deliberateness of the walking. I used to walk by almost falling, but in a very controlled way. I never noticed till I started really "trying" to walk like a video game character. Like, using muscular flexing. I seriously didn't realize I was just" falling" forward unconsciously instead of moving deliberately. I only noticed the difference afterwards, but damn is it a huge difference.
I'm 32 and didn't pay heed to how I walk, until my ankles and legs hurt intolerably due to overpronation. It gets in the way of everything that I do. At 32, I'm starting to learn and practice how to walk properly. Thank you for this.
Glad to hear! It's my pleasure.
Me too! It hurts my lower back and hips. Now I’m learning how to walk again.
I just tried these tips and it made me tear up... 😂 I was very sedentary for many years due to an illness and sort of forgot how to walk properly. I'm 2.5 years into my recovery and every day, all day I've been trying to figure out the right way to walk again. I wish I found this sooner! Thank you so much, man. You're a real one.
My feet are as flat as they come, and my hips had always felt so tense with a lot of pain! Been walking like this for about a month and it's nearly life changing! Thanks, I'm glad I searched "how to walk".
Just seeing your video for the first time.
Great start.
After 9 years of me telling people that running on our heels is damaging to the body I thought it must be the same for walking so I stopped walking on my heels 14 months (July 22, 2018) to see what would happen.
After 2 months of walking 5 to 10 miles a day, my back tension went away. Up until then when I bent over at my waist my back would ache.
Then over the next 5 months I was able to keep my heels higher off the ground, like a dog or deer, using more of my tendons and ligaments, and my Gluteal muscles.
My glutes had been very tight for 25 years and I was unable to bend straight down all the way at my knees, but after 7 months of pad/toe walking, 25 years of tension had vanished, and I could then bend all the way to the ground.
Next up, my feet, which at 17 years old had been diagnosed as mobile-flat-feet.
After 12 months of walking naturally, with no heel strike, my right foot had a good arch and my left foot was starting to form one.
Next year I plan to prove that we are designed to walk and run with stiff ankles, like dogs deer, horses gazelles, and some little kids, by beating the 100 metre sprint record in the 55 - 59 age group (11.30 seconds) so that nobody will be able to argue with me that toe walking bad unless they are brainless.
Thanks for sharing.
Wow. So it's possible to change flat feet! Thank you for sharing this
This guy is so good at explaining, I'd watch him describe how to make toast. Great video sir!
After watching a couple of your videos I think this one is the best. Good video to see the details and more specific dialogue. Thank you!
THANK YOU ! FINALLY! Someone who makes SENSE!
Excellent explained thanks.
You have no idea how much this video helped me! Thank you.
The pleasure is mine. I'm glad you found it helpful.
Finally I found the best video on the subject. 100 points for demonstrating it bare footed. Another 100 for the perfect camera focus. Great explanation as well 💯
SO helpful and clearly explains why I'm nearly in traction after walking! 👍🏽
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.
But my feet hurt without cushion 💔💔💔💔
The worst is that it's almost impossible to find flat shoes nowadays 😒
Thank you so much. I’ve been trying to get active again and noticed that simply walking was far too painful for it to be normal. I’ve watched a lot of videos and talked to people about where to put my foot, when to bend my knee, how to keep my back straight and chin up, the rate at which we should walk, and I was trying to put it all together but it just wasn’t feeling right and ultimately hurt even more than when I wasn’t thinking about it. Well, I tried your way and incorporated the arm swinging and it all fell into place. I guess I was thinking so hard about my legs that I was neglecting to consider my arms and was wobbling all over the place from poor balance. You’re the best, dude!
Thank you! I'm glad you found it helpful.
Thanks a lot for this explanation, mate. I was looking for some videos to see how I can improve my walking and I found your channel. I'm impressed, you've got yourself a new subscriber.
Wow! My husband and I both walk how you walked at the very beginning of your video. Starting today, we'll practice how to walk correctly for the very first time in our life. I don't even know how to thank you!!!
Your better health is thanks enough. Thanks for watching!
this video is extremely informative and straight forward, love it thanks !
Damn it’s hard to re-learn how to walk!
I've been trying to switch to forefoot strike for weeks now. It's only thanks to this video that it finally clicked. Thank you.
Great to hear!
This is the most easy to understand video about this. Thank you.
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.
Thank you! If it has helped you, that is the effect I hope to have.
This vid changed my life, no cap
I'm glad to hear. All the best.
Really appreciate your holistic approach to adjusting walking habits!
He does an excellent job of explaining everything. Thanks for making this video.
Thank you! Im glad you found it helpful.
Thank you!!
The 'tism takes a toll!
I needed info & to be able to visualize what I SHOULD be doing. Not what I have for 36 yrs
Thank you GREAT VIDEO!!! Alot of great info condensed! I appreciate you taking the time to make this to inform people!
Thank you!
This is very helpful. In practicing this movement, I had to consciously think about the back foot pushing off from the toes in order to have front foot land properly on toes. It’s like being a baby learning to walk. 🙂
Your comment is very helpful. I just watched the video (and will rewatch), but I still wasn’t quite clear on the mechanics. Your description of the back foot pushing off from the toes made it click for me.
Awesome video!! Love being aware of my gait and keeping everything in check. Thanks!
As a 31 ye old toddler who gave herself a Jones fracture 4 weeks ago by not knowing how to walk. I really appreciate someone finally teaching me how to walk properly. Lol
i've flat foot , and always being told until now ( i'm 22 yo ) that my walk looks weird and now i finally know how to walk properly thanks you !
It's so sad that I need this video. As a kid I would go the whole summer without shoes, now I want to go barefoot again and my legs forgot how to do it without padding from shoes
Thanks for watching! With practice, it will become natural again.
Thanks so much! Great explanation. I had this down a few years ago but lost it and needed the refresher. I miss the strength I felt in my walk instead of this lumbering movement I fell back into.
Excellent! The pleasure is mine.
Thank you for making this channel! I’ve been waiting to find a channel to help me with my flat feet. Keep up this channel please!! You’re awesome!
Thanks for watching!
It eazy
Same to you but always walk and practice
Very helpful! This is the only video I’ve seen like it and answers alit of questions I haven’t been able to find.
Glad to hear. Thanks for watching!
I’m 2 years old and this helped massively thanks
Great video! Very clear and helped my gait instantly.
Love it! Thank you for teaching this!
Thanks for making this video! I have been practicing this for almost a week and now I walk much better! Many, many, many thanks! :D!!!
Great to hear!
This is a great explanation! I have taken a barefoot running/chi running course in the past which encouraged mid foot landing but I have never seen it linked to what the rear foot is doing so clearly. I just walked across the room and felt like I finally understood it.
Fantastic!
Dude! I've been looking for this and didn't get it. Best explanation of how to! Thank you very much!
I wrote that before finishing the video. Great idea adding the exercise in there.
Thanks, even in my senior years , I feel the need to correct landing on my heels- wish that I had heard about these things earlier in my life, but better late than never- still trying, and I appreciate you 🙏
You are ao clear! Thank you!!
Awesome video, thank you so much for this!
The best video explaining proper walking. 👍👍👍
Man thanks alot for this video. I've been trying to fix my gait for a good year now. Been experiencing plantar fasciitis in the left foot lately. I pray as I start training this things will get better. God bless you man and keep going
Wow, you are extremely helpful. I am grateful!
Another Great video. Thanks
Very good. The balancing exercises are great. Thanks.
This and your other video were great, and while at first i was confused and didn't get it, tempted to dislike the vieo because most people around me walked heel first.
But once i actually started doing it i felt way better, and looking back it makes a lot of sense, you explained really well in your last video how back then forest floors were full of obstacles and we had to be careful etc.
And if you think about it our legs are literally designed to walk in the way you showed us in this video - a way in which we utilise all our diffrent muscles
Thank you so much!
This is brilliant as I just incurred pain from my walking! But I’m changing it up 🙏🏻 thanks.
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 will delve deeper on it.
Thank you man the video that I was looking for
What a wonderful video! Thank you for the info, I'm about to binge watch all your vids! Didn't know I've been walking wrong all these years, no wonder my back hurts!
Wonderful! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for your videos. I have major duck feet that I'm trying to fix. You seem to understand the complexities of these issues better than anyone else on youtube.
The first step is to be mindful of the position of your feet and aim your trajectory with your big toe. You may also need to perform some glute stretches like pigeon pose. Thanks for watching.
This video really helped me !!!
Literally the best video out there on youtube
Thank You!
Great video, thank you! My newly found minimalist shoe interest lead my to try and learn more about walking, and here I came across your great tutorial today. Cheers~
Thank you for this.
Great video! Thanks
I underestimated how much I liked this video. I don't know if you're correct but this was definitely an informative video.
Thank you so much for uploading this video
I've been trying to become the best possible person I can be, and honestly, this helped a lot. I'm amazed by how something as simple as walking is messed up and leads to life-time issues. Thank you for this video. I'm appreciative of how simple things like this are messed up though, as it feels like once you know how to fix it, it's almost like opening a third eye. Life-changing really.
Wonderful! Thank you so much!
So, I have scoliosis and kneeproblems. I’ve bee landing on my heel during the gait cycle for decades. Im going to learn your method and see if it helps my pain. Thank you so much. I keep hearing about the windlass mechanism, but I never understood it. Brilliant.
I’ve been having trouble with arch pain due to low/weak arches and a recent ankle sprain. I didn’t notice until today how I was striking the ground heel first. The way you described it, pushing off the ground to move forward rather than passively utilizing the hip flexors really helped me.
Glad to hear! The problems of walking are slightly different for everyone, I just try to give one angle of approach and hope it works for some, like it did for me.
What a great video. Thx
Well that explains a lot!! Thank you 👍👍🙏🏽🙏🏽
This helped my pain to my plantar fasciitus just adjusting from my walk from my bed to the bathroom. Usually it is unbearable to get up and walk because the pain shoots up but I did this and there was no pain which really made me emotional. Do your best and thank you for the video.
Such a necessary video! Thank you!
The pleasure is mine!
Great video! Finally someone on the internet stating how to walk properly by pushing off w/ the toes on one foot while landing on the forefoot (outer edge first) of the opposite foot. A quick Google search on how to walk properly says to walk heel to toe...which is wrong and will destroy the knees in many people...talk about fake news LOL. I enjoyed your video, great information!!!
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.
Wonderful video. Subscribed, I feel an essential healthy transformation to come to my body thanks to your generous information. Thank you
Quality content. What a great instructional. Thank you. 👍😎🇦🇺