How to Engage Your Lower Abs to Walk Properly
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- How to engage your lower abs properly to walk. Walking does not just use your legs, and your torso is not just used to stabilize your spine. You core is is the guide to all of your movements, creating both power and direction. In this video I will describe how to use to lower abdominal muscles correctly to walk properly. This is essential to reducing impact and keeping an even weight distribution over your feet. Incorrect use of the lower abs can result in flat over pronation and flat feet.
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You are the world's top expert/scientist on walking. You are working tirelessly to help us walk better. Thank you so much!
Thank you Peter. I hope you are feeling good about your walk
This is quite helpful in the one side lower ab explanation of where the turn and tuck is coming from. Applying it I immediately felt a big improvement. Looked a lot better too.
Great to hear that
Dr. Martin, thanks so much for your work. At 66, I’m starting a daily 1-hour walking lifestyle motivated by pre-diabetes and hint of possible Kidney issue. Thankful new subscriber here!
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My pleasure and thanks for subscribing. Walking is great for prediabetes.
I had a kidney operation as a small child and this affected my walking style. I do not engage my lower abs properly when walking. This video is very helpful and im going to practice and rebuild my lower ab strength using the techniques you taught in this video
I am glad you found the video helpful.
Love love love your stuff! A student of mine shared your video with me. I can tell we share a similar movement philosophy. Keep up the good work!
Thanks. You too. I checked out your channel. Good stuff.
I am not sure if Dr Todd Martin knows this, but he is, in the most practical manner, showing us what Serge Gracovetsky talked about in his groundbreaking book The Spinal Engine. Plus he has similarity to PRI (Postural Restoration Institute) but like I said he is much more practical and it is amazing how he brings in tai chi and tango to it. I really hope this gentleman's knowledge is spread. He is some what of a philosopher. Best of luck.
I am not familiar with his work but the name of the book does sound familiar.
The impact absorption point mentioned at around 6:02 is really important, especially if, like me, you have joint issues. Great video.
Thanks, James
Todd Martin, please make a video about how to take long good steps. My steps are shorts and they look nervous
It’s posted for you
Awesome video!! Also nice Vans!
Thanks. I love my Vans.
“We are never double weighted”!
Thanks Todd that was a big question of mine, so when we “stand” (still) are we still never double weighted?
Correct. We are never double weighted, when moving correctly. Even when standing on two feet, where it appears the weight is evenly distributed, the root is only on one leg.
excellent. so basically is the loading response the gait phase in which i should watch more closely to labs engagement? thx so very much.
The loading response is when you are changing the lower ab direction. Once it’s done you don’t have to think about it again until you change it the next time. The same goes for the upper abs to bring the heel down and the hip flexion to start the swing through. Once they are done you don’t need to think about it. After writing this response out, I think I may do a video on it
So essentially, I need to engage my left abs to properly shift my weight onto my right leg , makes sense. Otherwise, I can't load properly into my right. THIS IS A BIG ISSUE with lateral pelvic tilt that is majorly overlooked.
Opposite. You use the left abs to shift weight onto the left leg. The lower abs root the leg. When you step forward with the right swing leg, you engage the lower abs on the left. This also prevents the anterior pelvic tilt. The gluteus medius prevents the lateral pelvic tilt.
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Thanks.
Hi Dr i'm doing the analyses of bouth walk .puching and puling in the loding résponse phase. In the phushing whey walk wen WE Land heel thé Trunks shoould flex little bit and than when WE try to go to loding résponse the Landing of thé rest foot shoould bé engagé with knne flexion and hip extensor work to get thé Trunks UP again .but in the pull UP way in the tucking of thé pelvis or postérior tilt do that all toghter as reflex of that mouvement .IS m'y understing IS true ar i misse somthing .
The trunk should stay completely vertical at all times. Think about rotating, not flexing. During loading response, think about tucking the pelvis.. I would watch the video on the Core Technique of SET to see the details of the core movement during loading response. The upper torso and lower torso actions are occurring at the same time, so you should not experience any flexing forward of the trunk.
Hi doc I having real big problems. I love to engage with u so i can walk better. Is there away I can contact you
My contact information is on the first page of my website. ToddMartinMD.com
What make the forward foot planterflex in loding rsponse
Gravity is the first thing, If you would have to actively resist the foot plantarflexing to stop it moving that way under the force of gravity and your body weight coming over it. In fact, your ankle dorsiflexors are contracting eccentrically during loading response. This means they are actively slowing down the plantarflexion which occurs naturally based on gravity. I also look at it this way. The muscles that operate your ankles and your knees will activate naturally based on your core movements in order to keep the body vertical and prevent falling. You do not have to think about them. The muscles work reflexively.
Dr i want to change my walking style..
There should be plenty of information on the channel to help you with that. If there is a specific problem you have, I can point you in the right direction.
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The channel is full of technique lessons and exercises. Have you watched them? If not, that is where to start.
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Thanks. I appreciate your comment.
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