How To Walk Better (And Undo The Damage Of Treadmills)
Have fun retraining your brain to fix your sore knees
Walking better will give you a better posture, a visceral pleasure in propelling your body forward and may help you live longer. And you won’t even have to look like a serious walker.
Even better, it will rebalance your body and ease some of your pains, especially if you have been using treadmills too much. Both walking poorly and treadmills can have a multitude of consequences such as knee pain, tight hip flexors, low back pain, and even eventual excessive rounding of the upper spine.
Somehow I untrained myself in how to walk
Somewhere between being a child and an adult, I untrained myself how to walk. It took me 50 years to realise my mistake!
Walking well is our most primordial athleticism. When we pass 50, how we walk starts to throw out markers indicating our path to mortality. The less speed, the more we hasten our passing — as we get closer to that time we stoop, rotate our feet outwards, and begin to shuffle.
That decline in our walking poise, posture and stamina comes about mainly because of the loss of skeletal muscle as we grow older — called sarcopenia. Physically inactive people can lose as much as…
