Walking is the best exercise you can do and a walking course will help you do it!. Walking increases cardiovascular fitness, reduces the risk of heart disease and strokes, helps you lose weight. It improves conditions such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes. Walking strengthens bones and muscle, relieves stiffness and helps with balance.
But, in order to walk comfortably and get the benefits of walking, you may need to improve or correct your gait
A Walking Course helps you relieve pain and restriction when you walk.
If you feel pain, get injured or have balance problems while walking you won’t be able to use it as an exercise. So, it’s valuable to break down the movement patterns found in walking and recover the natural ease inherent in human walking. Mastering your walking movements will give a strong, fluid and pain free gait.
You evolved to walk. Bad habits get in the way.
From your first moments trying to make your body move on the floor, you were busy developing coordinated hand and feet, side to side, and turning patterns. These were not random! These patterns set the stage for the spirals and muscle coordination that a good gait has!
A valuable walking coach or teacher is one who can see the incompletion or inhibition of these basic patterns and help you smooth them out. Coordinate them.
Let me explain a bad habit.
Maybe, like many people, you have a bit of a stomp when you walk? It’s not uncommon – it happens when you think the essence of walking is lifting your legs. That is actually a minor part of what happens developmentally! Also, notice, there is very little action in the feet or hips when you stomp! You are using only a part of your leg gait!
This imbalance can lead to hip pain, lower back pain and difficulty with stamina during walking! It also can cause instep, ankle or toe pain or numbness.
There are other walking course insights that help your endurance and pain free walking.
You also need to learn proper foot and ankle function, pelvic area balance, reach and pull of your arms, the importance of your pelvic disk and how the main muscles groups involved in walking change depending on where you are in your gait cycle.
But, do you know what? It’s a fun and relaxing study. Using somatic movement to repattern your habits also creates a great change in your nervous system. You feel calmer and more at ease.
That makes sense. But, can I really change my gait?
Yes. Gait problems are usually caused bad habits, injuries, faulty shoes, or even stress that. Sometimes illnesses like Parkinson’s disease or MS can limit walking but learning correct gait can help. we lose the ability to have a fluid and natural gait.
I have taught walking classes and clinics for well over a decade. Of course, you need information and understanding about the mechanics of walking. But, getting an experience of a smooth gait that is easy on all of your joints is the foundation of making walking a happy and healthy experience.
If you are interested in walking improvement, please contact me. Or watch some videos on my website. Be sure to scroll down. I also have a dedicated Youtube playlist for walking. I have helped hundreds through classes, one-on-one sessions, and even over Zoom. I have a Zoom and live walking workshop scheduled for Sunday, June 28 1-4. Learn more and sign up. Good fitness can change your life. I can help you to have the grace and comfort to approach that goal.
