If you are a runner, forefoot running can also decrease the stress on your back, knee and hip. Check out this video on 9 Common Running Mistakes & How to Avoid Them ruclips.net/video/zZmIYaM_1ZY/видео.html
I'm getting ready to watch this video but while I still have it fresh on my mind I wanted to ask you guys a question. I had gastric bypass surgery April 27th 2022 and over the last couple months I'm dealing with back pain. So they told me it's normal if you lose weight really quick your spine is trying to realign itself does that sound right to you guys. And this video I'm sure it's going to be very interesting for me cuz they also said when you lose a lot of weight quickly it changes the way you also walk.
@@daytripper9222 I had a sleeve done, best thing I’ve ever done. Where is your back pain? Did you have your gallbladder out? It could be your galbladder
@@nanasloves No I had my gallbladder taken out 10 years ago. I called the bariatric office yesterday and they reminded me that we did discuss this after I had the surgery. They told me to go to my binder and the information was in there and it was. There's exercises I'm supposed to be doing that I forgot completely about. So things will get better.
Where you've gone wrong here is to accept someone's premise that legs lock at the knee during conventional walking. No idea where this concept has come from but it's not true, so doesn't need to be cured. If the knee ever locked during walking, the gait would be awkward, haphazard and wobbly. The conventional gait - a rolling heel strike - is the natural way of walking. Thus, optimal. Just three rules to remember while walking: 1) Soft knees 2) Soft feet. 3) Don't think about it. That's all.
I walk over 8 miles every day (I’m retired 🤗) and walking correctly is so important. I examine the inside of my shoes to see my power points. I need to level things out. Thanks for the great advice.
Great video Fifty years ago I took up fast running On one particular run I pounded my heels on concrete against the advice of an observer who was an experienced orthopaedic surgeon Fifty years later I am still suffering from chronic plantar fasciitis Manageable but still uncomfortable Will try zero drop shoes Thanks guys Best wishes from Canada
Wow. I was just thinking about you guys this morning. Bob you continue to be an inspiration, so glad you are living your purpose in partnership with Brad and you both continue to pour your gifts and knowledge into others. You guys are the best! Now ...I am having severe hip pain, been walking extensively for exercise regularly for about 30 years. I am 52. I can't walk on my front toes because I have developed calluses under one foot and it is sooooo painful. My feet are aging faster than me ☺️. And my hips scream at me at night, especially when the air-conditioning is on. We call this type of pain a visit from Arthur (Arthritis). ☺️ Watching your videos hoping I can learn how to prevent further injury. I absolutely love walking. Thx for the info.
Hi Guys I have been following your videos for a number of years. They have helped me through many injuries. I am a Alexander Technique Teacher. It's all about posture and releasing tension. In walking we ease up taking the load off the body and work on freeing the knees if you do it right you feel like your floating with Lightness through your body use your mind to free the knees and feet.
Get Zero Drop shoes. It’s like walking barefoot all the time. Xero and true golf shoes are two of the best I’ve found. I walk on concrete all day and these shoes have changed the way I walk! My balance is so much better and almost never have any pain in my back legs or feet.
I have mild cerebral palsy and I walk like this, forefoot or flat foot and knees slightly bent. You’re the first people to say that I was walking correctly and that everyone else was doing it wrong. I can walk for miles and I’ve never had a sports injury in my life, save tendinitis in my heel once 20 years ago when I tried to take up jogging cold. Interesting.
This has been life changing and it’s only been two days. When I walk like this I can tell a difference in all of my problem areas. I even stopped walking crazy fast. My butt muscles weren’t sore because I have an office job, they were sore because I wasn’t using them when walking. My posture is better also. Thank you very much.
I wear zero drop shoes for walk/runs which are wonderful. I found jogging in them surprisingly easy to adapt to even as a guy in my mid sixties. Highly recommend the models with a broad toe box by the way.
Thank you so much for the beautiful tips! I am 70, and trying to improve my walking as much as possible. Walking is such a miracle - we should try to make it as elegant and smooth, and as close to nature as possible - and you just the hit the right nail for me! THANKS!
Hammer Toe: my left big toe started turning in and covering my second toe. It hurt where it bulges out at the joint. I'd been wearing clark sandals. I switched full time to my Altra zero drop wide toe box shoes and the hammer toe stopped.
As a 66-year-old, who's been training since 1969, I enjoy your videos. I don't always agree with what you say - and, as a walker myself, I have to say this theory is dodgy at best. We all have differing skeletons; and muscles which are strong in one person may be weak in another. Similarly, we all develop different angles and stresses over time, often depending on the type of work we do. So, recommending anything other than a gait natural to each individual is, in my humble opinion, irresponsible. I was, however, delighted to hear you use the term 'proprioception'. I've done a lot of work in this area myself; and it's a crucial aspect of fitness which is almost universally overlooked. But proprioception is not a synonym for sense of balance. Sense of balance is equilibrioception. Proprioception is body awareness: you know where your hand, knee, arm, etc is without looking at it. You can train to improve proprioception by closing your eyes during a balancing exercise.
Took a few weeks but learned to walk again at 54. Who knew?? Thx guys. Edit: PT was shocked at my glutes after a only few wks. I had paused physio for a while. She thinks it’s the new walk. Bonus.
Very timely video as I’m rubbing Diclofenac Gel onto my sore, swollen knee and the top of my aching foot. Just ordered the Zero Drop shoes to try and I practiced your recommended walking technique immediately after watching you do it. Keep up the great work guys, you provide a wealth of info and help, particularly as we age yet want to stay as active as possible.
BB have knee videos. FWIW husb’s CBD cream no THC (we’re in Canada) helped painful, swollen knee (and hip) almost overnight. Bromelain and ginger for swelling. Sitting kicks (dangle legs) moves synovial fluid. Build glutes and relax hamstrings to help knees. Castor oil packs help too - info online. Check with MD and or physio if you want to try any of above to be sure it’s safe for you. Edit: Castor oil packs are prob quite safe but try sml bottle and do test patch.
I started walking like this, not knowing it was a good thing, when I lived on the 2nd story, to keep noise down. Not that anyone needed to know that. Now, if I could only get my roommate to do the same.
After a spinal cord injury I'm trying to teach myself to walk again and have poor balance. And my legs just don't seem to know what to do. Very frustrating. Any magic Bob and Brad tips please?
Have you checked out our plantar fasciitis program on our website? Here is the link in case you're interested: www.bobandbrad.com/plantar-fasciitis-program
@@BobandBrad yes, I’m doing the massages and I have to buy a tennis ball to rotate my foot on it like you show in the video. I am fallowing your video instructions. The pain on the heal is unreal. I try pulling my toes back like you guys show and the pain on the back of heel is bad. I will watch the video u just posted, thank you so much for all your videos, love watching them and learning….
I am in the process of being evaluated for Vestibular Ataxia as my walking gait and balance are really bad at times. It seems to be getting worse as I get older (I’m in my early 60’s). I have had the symptoms for years and was deaf as a young child, had tubes in my ears through high school as the ear canal would always close up when they were removed. I now have tinnitus in my ears, especially the right ear (I’m a mess! LOL). I always walked with my heal first so I could be more sure-footed but I’ll give this a try over the next day or two and then discuss with my doctor at my next appointment. I’m learning so much from both of you!
Dear Bob and Brad. I am almost 88 and most of my loved ones have predeceased me. However, one or two of my relatives of similar age seem to be walking quite well. I appear to be the exception. My body is not being cooperative and for the last 12 months has stopped likiing long walks. I am working on a solution.
I’ve been walking with a hard landning on the heels almost all my life (and like you guys said, a very unstable and uncomfortable landning). This has made my legs very stiff… as well tearing down myself real bad mentaly… cuz of people calling me limping and walking weird… thanks to having good people sorrounfing i’ve been healing alright this autumn and spring ! And this method of landning is something i’ve been having on my mind as well! The feet should not be underestimated! Thanks for y’all videos! ❤️👊🏼💯
As a fitness instructor , I was always taught to heel strike first and roll thru the foot in many instances🙄 I’ll have to practice this,as the heel strike is so ingrained at this point.
I’ve been trying to walk “correctly” for the last couple of years. I have so many muscle imbalances it’s really a chore to do. I find myself walking at angles and just plain losing balance. It’s annoying and frustrating.
I worked with autistic children for sometime and several kids walked like this. They called it "Ballerina Syndrome", sometimes called "Os trigonum syndrome".
At first but at 54 yo took me few hrs to get it and ~2 wks to feel more natural. Way easier and good for glutes. I’ll never go back. My Physio who’s has Doctorate in PT and works with an ortho surgeon really liked it. My husb is now on board.
You nailed my need to know again!! It's been hard to walk bare foot so I put on my shoes. I've been yelled at for pounding the floor with my heals. So I wear shoes. Lately I've been doing the soft walk. It's been really hard to walk toes first cuz I loose my balance. 12 days later. I thought in my head I'll walk toes first. It was automatic. I was shocked That really felt great. I have bowed legs at the knees. And sometimes I walk stiff kneed. This show confirmed it that I'm doing it right. I also have a roller spiked bar for my bare feet. OH that hurts so good. It really helps my walk to go straight. Thanks guys. Great video!!
God bless you guys! You have NO idea how much this video impacts me. 18 months ago, I started experiencing pain in my left ankle when walking, or anything on my left foot. After some x-rays and an MRI we duscover a ew years back when I hurt my knee it was actually two tears in the meniscus. Now the doc thought my ankle was being affected by that. Then the knee started hurting, a lot, and they gave me a scortisone shot. A lot of relief...but the ankle with nothing wrong grew increasingly unstable. Shortcut on the story, after a few various falls I wound p with a partially ruptured Achilles, a sprained fibula tendon, another one that was inflamed, and two toes forming hammer toes. I'm going to give this a go because even after 10 weeks of PT I'm extremely unsteady and walk horribly. Maybe this, and a new ortho doc, might help!
Thank you for that. My calfs are sore after walking like this though. I am using your massage gun afterwards on my calfs. Can I expect this to get better? Greetings from Germany.
Ive been wearing ‘barefoot’ shoes for approx3 years. I don’t do a forefoot footstrike, I do more a touch and roll or a kind of foot glide. I can walk very quickly like that. My balance has improved, as has my proprioception, posture, pelvic floor etc. I bought my brother a pair and he said that he felt as if he was thrown back, posture-wise. He said his normal shoes seem to cause him to slump forward. I wish all kids had these kinds of shoes as their little feet are developing. If I’d have had these shoes and toe socks I don’t think I would have bunion prone feet. That has improved a lot since barefoot shoes, though. Another benefit is hat my feet are so much stronger and my calf muscles came back. They were disappearing, even if I specifically trained them. I believe that’s because my toes weren’t in the right position, my shoes were thick soled so my feet just weren’t moving. Since barefoot shoes my calves are back without training them at all. Just with normal walking.
This is the first time I've ever seen anyone say that the way I walk is correct. I have adhd and sensory issues, and have always done what my grandmother called "cat walking," and she would always correct me when she spotted me "on my tippy toes." She and my mother always made sure my shoes would promote the heel-toe stride. I've recently discovered that wearing minimalist yoga shoes or a pair of Converse all-stars causes me far less hip and back pain than when I'm wearing "properly supportive" sneakers, and I tend to revert to my natural flat or toe-first gait. I'm also finding that I accidently surprise people when I approach from behind them, as I walk so quietly. 😆 Oddly I'm wondering if this is why high heeled shoes and boots are sometimes so comfortable? The balance is all over the front of the foot.
I saw another vid on toes first walking so I tried it. I was stunned at how fast I was able to move! They discussed using your hips and toes to push off on to move you forward. It’s an amazing discovery. Happy walking!
This is a GREAT suggestion you've given for practicing without shoes! I switched to zero drop shoes years ago after I started getting horrible pain on the top of my feet. Wonderful results and I can go all day without pain, but if I put on regular sneakers or anything dressy or heels, I get that pain back sometimes as quick as 15 minutes. 2022 and I've learned about walking the way you described, but it's certainly easy to forget as I've been walking with a solid heel strike for 50 plus years. Will start some barefoot hard surface practice - definitely reminds me of walking by the pool so I think it will work wonders for my muscle memory! Thanks!!!
I just bought 2 cheap pairs of barefoot shoes that look more like normal shoes and loafers (Whitin on Amazon). They are zero drop but come with small flexible insoles. I took them out and love how connected to the ground I feel when I am standing or just walking. It forces me to walk properly (I searched this topic to make sure it was correct, which is what brought me here), and even improves posture because it makes you stand so the weight is distributed across your foot evenly. Standing and walking properly become the new default because it is now the most comfortable option available since you don't have the padding to absorb the bad posture or form. I have a pair of loafer style barefoot shoes for the house and one set of crosstrainers style for everything else. Amazon has a lot of very cheap options now, it is worth trying out for anyone like me who has been on the fence for a while now about buying a set to try out.
🎉🎉🎉 Great Job guys! I switched to forefoot walking last Aug after tearing my meniscus. I tossed ALLLLLL my shoes and switched to Xero barefoot shoes, forefoot landing, up and down hills and backwards walking! Still no surgery!!🎉🎉🎉
I am confused. I see conflicting information on walking heel-to-toe or toe-to-heel and it all makes sense lol. Apparently there is a correct and incorrect way to do heel-to-toe walking. As for running, it is different than walking and mid or toe first strike appears to be better and more natural. I do find I get more tired walking toe-to-heel.
The whole walking thing has become an issue with me because I'm having to over come bad habits as a result of going through the treatment for an Achilles tendon rupture. Hundreds of video PT professionals tell us authoritatively how to walk correctly. Many say no heel strike, you must land on the forefoot or mid foot. Many say the heel strike is normal, almost 100% in all countries walk that way. Some say it's not actually a heel strike, but you are landing just forward of the heel and below the lower leg bone. Watching videos of people walking on a treadmill it is obvious the heel is touching first, but it's the first part of rolling the foot forward and no push off. It looks relaxed and easy. Then, the large group that say you must push off from the rear toes to propel yourself forward. Others say no push off, just a raising of the toes off the ground shifting the weight to the front leg which then pulls you forward as that rear leg swings forward to take the load and so on. So far, this is the best break down of the walking gait I've found. Running is very different. ruclips.net/video/QAnEhz6Eqn4/видео.html
I have been following the world scene regarding walking for ten years and I will say that absolutely no one knows the correct way to walk. Everyone is just trying to walk correctly and not a single person can currently explain the correct way to walk. Before I explain it, I will obviously tell everyone only one thing. There are many types of walking, and proper walking depends first of all on the sneakers we wear. Second, the walk is changed according to the need for slopes and obstacles.Thirdly and most importantly, you all walk with your legs and feet, which is a mistake. You should walk with the symmetry of your body, where a person no longer walks, but uses the EARTH as a tool for releasing energy, not as a tool for walking. There is a secret how a man can walk like an octopus, where he does not walk or run like a man, but like an octopus that would walk if she could. Let me explain. Every time we touch the floor, a certain amount of stress occurs, which either the muscles or the bones absorb, which we can see in older people who are forced to walk like torn penguins. I CLAIM and will soon prove that man has devolved in movement, above all in walking, but there is a solution. OMEGA WALK. To confirm the knowledge and everyone who will try to dispute or ridicule the following informatio before I prove it, I will say only one thing.TEST YOURSELF IN THE FOLLOWING WAY TO CONFIRM WHAT I WILL PROVE SOON. Take off your socks and sit down, then do small movements with your feet and knees and watch your toes. What happens next WILL ABSOLUTELY BLOW YOUR MIND. For the first time YOU will see you irregularities in both feet. Each foot behaves differently. Sit down with someone else and you will laugh to tears. What happens is very interesting and is primarily the cause of poor walking. Your toes twitch and touch the floor irregularly, and each foot is different .That is the first and only information I will give here. For everything else, follow the world scene because this will be a SF story...
My new favorite locomotor performance lab video explaining the most efficient way to walk and why. Hint: it's not what many people want it to be! Human Locomotion: Chapter 3, Ideal Motions During the Gait Cycle ruclips.net/video/-ehoGLWYkcM/видео.html
I just watched a video by Grown and Healthy (in response to Bob and Brad) that describes in great detail the mechanics of walking properly. I found that lifting my knees just a little makes all the difference. I can now walk longer distances without back pain!
Agreed. Far easier and good for glutes. I’ll never go back. My Physio who works with an ortho surgeon really liked it. Husb is trying. Some here say it’s not natural or awkward but now heel to toe feels that way. 😂 Cheers
With practice, can one walk on one’s forefeet when walking rapidly, as when one is trying to cover ground quickly? I can see that it can work at a slower speed, but it seems to me that as stride lengthens to cover ground more quickly, that heel striking becomes almost inevitable.
One thing I've noticed, the shoes have a lot of foam rubber in the sole. It's actually wobbly. Be sure the laces are pulled snugly around the arch area. This helps with the floating wobble of shoes made in China now. The other problem with tripping can also be caused by the soles extending beyond the actual shoe. WTH that is I don't know. Best wishes
... sorry to intrude into Bob & Brad's hugely helpful videos, but the advertisement that preceded it for Walkers Crisps I find unattractive and VULGAR! Please can someone take them down?
I have to respectfully disagree with this video. According to the Harvard Medicine website, " You should be rolling from heel to toe as you stride, not landing flat-footed with a thud." Irene Davis has a video on the biomechanics of movement, and she demonstrated how the foot is uniquely designed for these 2 distinct forms of locomotion. If you watch how children learn to walk barefoot, they heel strike, as this is the purpose of that massive fleshy surface. However, if you run barefoot, your natural landing is the forefoot. Leaning forward as you walk is unnatural and puts you at risk for falls as this puts you off balance. If you watch the way the Tarahumara walk, who are responsible for the barefoot/forefoot movement, even THEY heel strike when walking.
I understand the idea but every time I walk outside the “right way” it feels weird and goofy… And I don’t understand how we can go through a whole video without showing somebody taking five or 10 steps - it definitely looks different and it feels different another question: if the whole problem is hard striking, why isn’t this simply solved by having ….a soft heel, which protects us (somewhat) from the impulse of the strike
I have zero pain, but have slightly imverted bow legs, and I just feel my walk is wrong or weird. I feel I don't press my feet into the ground or something. What's going onnnnn???
Excellent advice! Walking properly and your shoes are key to eliminate foot knee and back problems. It worked for me a few years back. Changed over to wide toe box minimalist shoes. I had aching feet every night. I thought it was part of aging. Not a happy pup. Stumbled upon zero drop naturally foot shape minimalist shoes….back pain and sore feet gone in 5 days. Works for me. Today that’s all I wear is minimalist shoes for casual, sports and dress. My feet reward me with comfort.
As a woman of only 5'2", I often wear heeled shoes, although these are only of medium height and are not narrow heels. Do you have any advice for ladies like myself who don't want to chuck out all our heeled shoes but still want to walk properly? Thank you!
I'm trying to slowly incorporate that new way of walking, into my daily walking. Whether it's walking around a store, or around the block. And I notice that I have muscles becoming sore. Good stuff
Hello. I know this video is a year old, but i have several leg and feet conditions. I have seen this is supposed to help plantar fasciatis. I have been dealing with that for several years. I also have posterior tibial tendonitis and tarsal tunnel syndrome. And the bavk of my Achilles tendon is usually very tight all the way up to the top of my calf muscles. I also severely overpronate and have tried stability shoes and added insoles to them. I have tried neutral shoes with insoles. I have also tried both types of shoes with just the factory insoles. I atill get some arch pain no matter what set up i try and also some heel pain. Will learning how to transition into this walking method help release my tight calves and correct overpronation problems ? And also i have been doing different calf stretches to and it just doesn't get much relief. I've been doing them for a long time to no prevail.
I was having right knee pain for a while now specially after running. I tired your recommendation of not rolling the foot from hill to toe. And I was really watching my form to really land on the hill and roll bc that’s how I was taught. But your recommendation really worked after just one run. Thanks a lot for making this videos. It feels weird walking without rolling the foot but I much rather avoid the knee pain.
With all respect I think that's a dumb idea. It's too toesy. When running you definitely don't want to land on your toes. Maybe if you want to be extremely slow. Why not land on your midfoot with your foot more underneath you when you walk rather than out front. That will alleviate the heel strike, but not require a toes down position.
Is barefoot walking suggested for people whose feet have pronation? I have good arches but can a person have so poor bone structure so they cannot lift themselves up by pushing off by the balls of their feet? In that case can we now make 3-D bones to replace those inadequate bones?
All fine and dandy in a perfect world and then you go to work with your boots for 14 hours a day . Been fighting this for years , you can’t stop the body from wearing out.
If you are a runner, forefoot running can also decrease the stress on your back, knee and hip. Check out this video on 9 Common Running Mistakes & How to Avoid Them ruclips.net/video/zZmIYaM_1ZY/видео.html
I'm getting ready to watch this video but while I still have it fresh on my mind I wanted to ask you guys a question. I had gastric bypass surgery April 27th 2022 and over the last couple months I'm dealing with back pain. So they told me it's normal if you lose weight really quick your spine is trying to realign itself does that sound right to you guys. And this video I'm sure it's going to be very interesting for me cuz they also said when you lose a lot of weight quickly it changes the way you also walk.
@@daytripper9222 I had a sleeve done, best thing I’ve ever done. Where is your back pain? Did you have your gallbladder out? It could be your galbladder
@@nanasloves No I had my gallbladder taken out 10 years ago. I called the bariatric office yesterday and they reminded me that we did discuss this after I had the surgery. They told me to go to my binder and the information was in there and it was. There's exercises I'm supposed to be doing that I forgot completely about. So things will get better.
Where you've gone wrong here is to accept someone's premise that legs lock at the knee during conventional walking. No idea where this concept has come from but it's not true, so doesn't need to be cured.
If the knee ever locked during walking, the gait would be awkward, haphazard and wobbly.
The conventional gait - a rolling heel strike - is the natural way of walking. Thus, optimal.
Just three rules to remember while walking:
1) Soft knees
2) Soft feet.
3) Don't think about it.
That's all.
I have been walking better and had an increase in quality of life because of this channel! Thank you again!
Great to hear!! Keep up the great work!
@@BobandBrad Thank you!
I walk over 8 miles every day (I’m retired 🤗) and walking correctly is so important. I examine the inside of my shoes to see my power points. I need to level things out. Thanks for the great advice.
Thank you Bob and Brad for all that you guys do, you’ve helped me and so many other people.
You guys rock!
Great video
Fifty years ago I took up fast running
On one particular run I pounded my heels on concrete against the advice of an observer who was an experienced orthopaedic surgeon
Fifty years later I am still suffering from chronic plantar fasciitis
Manageable but still uncomfortable
Will try zero drop shoes
Thanks guys
Best wishes from Canada
Needed this before I head out tomorrow, big hugs and big thanks as always, rest well and peace attend B & B all thru the night 😴
Thank you!
Thank you for this! What about a video on the mechanics of, and exercises for, going down steps properly?
I have added this to our to do list! Thank you for the suggestion and watching!
That's what I need too....
@@BobandBrad thanks for always listening!❤
Me three!
I started walking like this and everyone thought I was coming out..
😂😂😂
Wow. I was just thinking about you guys this morning. Bob you continue to be an inspiration, so glad you are living your purpose in partnership with Brad and you both continue to pour your gifts and knowledge into others. You guys are the best! Now ...I am having severe hip pain, been walking extensively for exercise regularly for about 30 years. I am 52. I can't walk on my front toes because I have developed calluses under one foot and it is sooooo painful. My feet are aging faster than me ☺️. And my hips scream at me at night, especially when the air-conditioning is on. We call this type of pain a visit from Arthur (Arthritis). ☺️ Watching your videos hoping I can learn how to prevent further injury. I absolutely love walking. Thx for the info.
Thank you for sharing and watching! Hopefully it can help
Great video. Enthusiastic. Authentic and real. Love you both and continue to learn with every video. Wonderful to see you together so upbeat.
Hi Guys
I have been following your videos for a number of years.
They have helped me through many injuries.
I am a Alexander Technique Teacher.
It's all about posture and releasing tension.
In walking we ease up taking the load off the body and work on freeing the knees if you do it right you feel like your floating with Lightness through your body use your mind to free the knees and feet.
Get Zero Drop shoes. It’s like walking barefoot all the time. Xero and true golf shoes are two of the best I’ve found. I walk on concrete all day and these shoes have changed the way I walk! My balance is so much better and almost never have any pain in my back legs or feet.
Thanks for sharing!
noted thanks
Bob and Brad thank you you guys for your physical therapy advice. ❤️
I have mild cerebral palsy and I walk like this, forefoot or flat foot and knees slightly bent. You’re the first people to say that I was walking correctly and that everyone else was doing it wrong. I can walk for miles and I’ve never had a sports injury in my life, save tendinitis in my heel once 20 years ago when I tried to take up jogging cold. Interesting.
Cerebral palsy is exactly what I thought about too. This is the exact walk of my lifelong friend who has Cerebral palsy.
What brand of zero drop shoes are those?
This has been life changing and it’s only been two days. When I walk like this I can tell a difference in all of my problem areas. I even stopped walking crazy fast. My butt muscles weren’t sore because I have an office job, they were sore because I wasn’t using them when walking. My posture is better also. Thank you very much.
Update; all of my chronic problems have gone away. So much less pain. Thank you so much!
So good to go back and watch you two together!! Prayers to you both always 😊
I wear zero drop shoes for walk/runs which are wonderful. I found jogging in them surprisingly easy to adapt to even as a guy in my mid sixties. Highly recommend the models with a broad toe box by the way.
Thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for the beautiful tips! I am 70, and trying to improve my walking as much as possible. Walking is such a miracle - we should try to make it as elegant and smooth, and as close to nature as possible - and you just the hit the right nail for me! THANKS!
Walking barefoot on the dirt or grass to ground yourself is good for you too 👍😊
Thanks for watching!
Even just in house or apartment/condo/flat if too cold out. Still helps with muscles and a bit of grounding.
PEMF works. However research first because there is a great difference between the machines and their operators.
Happy feet around the pool, you are right everyone is running around on their toes around a swimming pool 😂 👏 Once again I appreciate your advice
Thank you
Hammer Toe: my left big toe started turning in and covering my second toe. It hurt where it bulges out at the joint. I'd been wearing clark sandals. I switched full time to my Altra zero drop wide toe box shoes and the hammer toe stopped.
Thanks for sharing!
As a 66-year-old, who's been training since 1969, I enjoy your videos. I don't always agree with what you say - and, as a walker myself, I have to say this theory is dodgy at best. We all have differing skeletons; and muscles which are strong in one person may be weak in another. Similarly, we all develop different angles and stresses over time, often depending on the type of work we do. So, recommending anything other than a gait natural to each individual is, in my humble opinion, irresponsible.
I was, however, delighted to hear you use the term 'proprioception'. I've done a lot of work in this area myself; and it's a crucial aspect of fitness which is almost universally overlooked. But proprioception is not a synonym for sense of balance. Sense of balance is equilibrioception. Proprioception is body awareness: you know where your hand, knee, arm, etc is without looking at it. You can train to improve proprioception by closing your eyes during a balancing exercise.
I need to take tiny steps to not come down heel first.
Took a few weeks but learned to walk again at 54. Who knew?? Thx guys. Edit: PT was shocked at my glutes after a only few wks. I had paused physio for a while. She thinks it’s the new walk. Bonus.
Very timely video as I’m rubbing Diclofenac Gel onto my sore, swollen knee and the top of my aching foot. Just ordered the Zero Drop shoes to try and I practiced your recommended walking technique immediately after watching you do it. Keep up the great work guys, you provide a wealth of info and help, particularly as we age yet want to stay as active as possible.
happy to help!
BB have knee videos. FWIW husb’s CBD cream no THC (we’re in Canada) helped painful, swollen knee (and hip) almost overnight. Bromelain and ginger for swelling. Sitting kicks (dangle legs) moves synovial fluid. Build glutes and relax hamstrings to help knees. Castor oil packs help too - info online. Check with MD and or physio if you want to try any of above to be sure it’s safe for you. Edit: Castor oil packs are prob quite safe but try sml bottle and do test patch.
I started walking like this, not knowing it was a good thing, when I lived on the 2nd story, to keep noise down. Not that anyone needed to know that. Now, if I could only get my roommate to do the same.
After a spinal cord injury I'm trying to teach myself to walk again and have poor balance. And my legs just don't seem to know what to do. Very frustrating. Any magic Bob and Brad tips please?
Hello, good evening from Milwaukee Wisconsin. I have a lot of pain on one foot, which I suffer from plantar fasciitis
Have you checked out our plantar fasciitis program on our website? Here is the link in case you're interested: www.bobandbrad.com/plantar-fasciitis-program
@@BobandBrad yes, I’m doing the massages and I have to buy a tennis ball to rotate my foot on it like you show in the video. I am fallowing your video instructions. The pain on the heal is unreal. I try pulling my toes back like you guys show and the pain on the back of heel is bad. I will watch the video u just posted, thank you so much for all your videos, love watching them and learning….
Great video & as usual, good content. Tis is one channel always comes up with - not to miss video content. Keep goin👏
Thank you so much :)
I am in the process of being evaluated for Vestibular Ataxia as my walking gait and balance are really bad at times. It seems to be getting worse as I get older (I’m in my early 60’s). I have had the symptoms for years and was deaf as a young child, had tubes in my ears through high school as the ear canal would always close up when they were removed. I now have tinnitus in my ears, especially the right ear (I’m a mess! LOL). I always walked with my heal first so I could be more sure-footed but I’ll give this a try over the next day or two and then discuss with my doctor at my next appointment. I’m learning so much from both of you!
We are so happy we can offer some assistance in your journey! Best of luck, happy to have you watching!
Dear Bob and Brad. I am almost 88 and most of my loved ones have predeceased me. However, one or two of my relatives of similar age seem to be walking quite well. I appear to be the exception. My body is not being cooperative and for the last 12 months has stopped likiing long walks. I am working on a solution.
What f you have severe metatarsal pain? Makes it really hard to land on forefoot. Or, if you overpronate where is the arch support in a flat shoe?
I’ve been walking with a hard landning on the heels almost all my life (and like you guys said, a very unstable and uncomfortable landning). This has made my legs very stiff… as well tearing down myself real bad mentaly… cuz of people calling me limping and walking weird… thanks to having good people sorrounfing i’ve been healing alright this autumn and spring ! And this method of landning is something i’ve been having on my mind as well! The feet should not be underestimated! Thanks for y’all videos! ❤️👊🏼💯
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As a fitness instructor , I was always taught to heel strike first and roll thru the foot in many instances🙄
I’ll have to practice this,as the heel strike is so ingrained at this point.
show us an actual clip of you walking normal like that. I just can't imagine
ha-ha, we will have to take a video of that
I’ve been trying to walk “correctly” for the last couple of years. I have so many muscle imbalances it’s really a chore to do. I find myself walking at angles and just plain losing balance. It’s annoying and frustrating.
Hopefully this helped
What a simple technique, yet this has made an immediate difference to my hip pain! Thank you guys 😊
what happened to Bob, you know?
I worked with autistic children for sometime and several kids walked like this. They called it "Ballerina Syndrome", sometimes called "Os trigonum syndrome".
So glad to see you Bob. Brad couldn't do it without you!
I have some zero drop shoes my son gave me. They do take getting used to for sure!
I'll try it, but it sounds awkward.
I agree. I've never noticed anyone walking like that. I'm afraid I'd trip.
All we can do is try!
At first but at 54 yo took me few hrs to get it and ~2 wks to feel more natural. Way easier and good for glutes. I’ll never go back. My Physio who’s has Doctorate in PT and works with an ortho surgeon really liked it. My husb is now on board.
@@jeljel4037
See my reply to Shilodog. ✌️
What if your big toe is coming up when you walk?
Here is a video that may help: ruclips.net/video/JDGXiXWGGLg/видео.html
@@BobandBrad thanx, will give it a try.
as dancers , we learn to do toe to heel, well mainly toe on point shoes.. That's how we can dance for hours.
You nailed my need to know again!!
It's been hard to walk bare foot so I put on my shoes.
I've been yelled at for pounding the floor with my heals. So I wear shoes. Lately I've been doing the soft walk. It's been really hard to walk toes first cuz I loose my balance. 12 days later. I thought in my head I'll walk toes first. It was automatic. I was shocked That really felt great. I have bowed legs at the knees. And sometimes I walk stiff kneed. This show confirmed it that I'm doing it right.
I also have a roller spiked bar for my bare feet. OH that hurts so good. It really helps my walk to go straight.
Thanks guys. Great video!!
Liked “enjoy the day and walk on”
If Benedict Cumberbatch and Ben Stiller were doctors! Thanks for the helpful content!
God bless you guys! You have NO idea how much this video impacts me. 18 months ago, I started experiencing pain in my left ankle when walking, or anything on my left foot. After some x-rays and an MRI we duscover a ew years back when I hurt my knee it was actually two tears in the meniscus. Now the doc thought my ankle was being affected by that.
Then the knee started hurting, a lot, and they gave me a scortisone shot. A lot of relief...but the ankle with nothing wrong grew increasingly unstable.
Shortcut on the story, after a few various falls I wound p with a partially ruptured Achilles, a sprained fibula tendon, another one that was inflamed, and two toes forming hammer toes.
I'm going to give this a go because even after 10 weeks of PT I'm extremely unsteady and walk horribly. Maybe this, and a new ortho doc, might help!
So happy we could help, best of luck!
Any update?
Thank you for that. My calfs are sore after walking like this though. I am using your massage gun afterwards on my calfs. Can I expect this to get better? Greetings from Germany.
Soft knee walk looks similar to drop foot.
LOL when Bob said I’m scared 😂
LOL
I tried this a my knee is flexing backwards. Which isn’t good. I’m also a stroke survivor and wearing an AFO
Ive been wearing ‘barefoot’ shoes for approx3 years. I don’t do a forefoot footstrike, I do more a touch and roll or a kind of foot glide. I can walk very quickly like that. My balance has improved, as has my proprioception, posture, pelvic floor etc.
I bought my brother a pair and he said that he felt as if he was thrown back, posture-wise. He said his normal shoes seem to cause him to slump forward.
I wish all kids had these kinds of shoes as their little feet are developing. If I’d have had these shoes and toe socks I don’t think I would have bunion prone feet. That has improved a lot since barefoot shoes, though.
Another benefit is hat my feet are so much stronger and my calf muscles came back. They were disappearing, even if I specifically trained them. I believe that’s because my toes weren’t in the right position, my shoes were thick soled so my feet just weren’t moving. Since barefoot shoes my calves are back without training them at all. Just with normal walking.
Thanks for sharing!
I like your carpet. Have noticed it for awhile. Very Frank Lloyd Wright/ Prairie style. Good to see Bob.
Thank you!
Looking good Bob, looking good Brad!
Love you guys, you helped me through one of the most difficult health crises I've ever experienced. Thank you.
This is the first time I've ever seen anyone say that the way I walk is correct. I have adhd and sensory issues, and have always done what my grandmother called "cat walking," and she would always correct me when she spotted me "on my tippy toes." She and my mother always made sure my shoes would promote the heel-toe stride.
I've recently discovered that wearing minimalist yoga shoes or a pair of Converse all-stars causes me far less hip and back pain than when I'm wearing "properly supportive" sneakers, and I tend to revert to my natural flat or toe-first gait. I'm also finding that I accidently surprise people when I approach from behind them, as I walk so quietly. 😆
Oddly I'm wondering if this is why high heeled shoes and boots are sometimes so comfortable? The balance is all over the front of the foot.
I’ve been walking and running this way on the advise of my physical therapist. It took a while, but now it’s natural. And no back pain.
Chuck Taylor's and similar are great for balance and walking because it's like being barefooted. You get really good secure placement too.
Thank you Bob & Brad! 👍🏼👍🏼
We are happy to be able to help
I saw another vid on toes first walking so I tried it. I was stunned at how fast I was able to move! They discussed using your hips and toes to push off on to move you forward. It’s an amazing discovery. Happy walking!
Great to hear!
If you searched for this you are too drunk.
This is a GREAT suggestion you've given for practicing without shoes! I switched to zero drop shoes years ago after I started getting horrible pain on the top of my feet. Wonderful results and I can go all day without pain, but if I put on regular sneakers or anything dressy or heels, I get that pain back sometimes as quick as 15 minutes. 2022 and I've learned about walking the way you described, but it's certainly easy to forget as I've been walking with a solid heel strike for 50 plus years. Will start some barefoot hard surface practice - definitely reminds me of walking by the pool so I think it will work wonders for my muscle memory! Thanks!!!
Is there a remedy/rxercise for Morton's neuroma?
Wow, thank you so much! This really helps!
Good stuff. Walk on!
Yes!
I just bought 2 cheap pairs of barefoot shoes that look more like normal shoes and loafers (Whitin on Amazon). They are zero drop but come with small flexible insoles. I took them out and love how connected to the ground I feel when I am standing or just walking. It forces me to walk properly (I searched this topic to make sure it was correct, which is what brought me here), and even improves posture because it makes you stand so the weight is distributed across your foot evenly.
Standing and walking properly become the new default because it is now the most comfortable option available since you don't have the padding to absorb the bad posture or form.
I have a pair of loafer style barefoot shoes for the house and one set of crosstrainers style for everything else. Amazon has a lot of very cheap options now, it is worth trying out for anyone like me who has been on the fence for a while now about buying a set to try out.
🎉🎉🎉 Great Job guys! I switched to forefoot walking last Aug after tearing my meniscus. I tossed ALLLLLL my shoes and switched to Xero barefoot shoes, forefoot landing, up and down hills and backwards walking! Still no surgery!!🎉🎉🎉
I am confused. I see conflicting information on walking heel-to-toe or toe-to-heel and it all makes sense lol. Apparently there is a correct and incorrect way to do heel-to-toe walking. As for running, it is different than walking and mid or toe first strike appears to be better and more natural. I do find I get more tired walking toe-to-heel.
The whole walking thing has become an issue with me because I'm having to over come bad habits as a result of going through the treatment for an Achilles tendon rupture. Hundreds of video PT professionals tell us authoritatively how to walk correctly. Many say no heel strike, you must land on the forefoot or mid foot. Many say the heel strike is normal, almost 100% in all countries walk that way. Some say it's not actually a heel strike, but you are landing just forward of the heel and below the lower leg bone. Watching videos of people walking on a treadmill it is obvious the heel is touching first, but it's the first part of rolling the foot forward and no push off. It looks relaxed and easy. Then, the large group that say you must push off from the rear toes to propel yourself forward. Others say no push off, just a raising of the toes off the ground shifting the weight to the front leg which then pulls you forward as that rear leg swings forward to take the load and so on. So far, this is the best break down of the walking gait I've found. Running is very different. ruclips.net/video/QAnEhz6Eqn4/видео.html
@@robertbissettI really appreciate your response and I have bookmarked the video since I am at work right now.
I have been following the world scene regarding walking for ten years and I will say that absolutely no one knows the correct way to walk. Everyone is just trying to walk correctly and not a single person can currently explain the correct way to walk. Before I explain it, I will obviously tell everyone only one thing. There are many types of walking, and proper walking depends first of all on the sneakers we wear. Second, the walk is changed according to the need for slopes and obstacles.Thirdly and most importantly, you all walk with your legs and feet, which is a mistake. You should walk with the symmetry of your body, where a person no longer walks, but uses the EARTH as a tool for releasing energy, not as a tool for walking. There is a secret how a man can walk like an octopus, where he does not walk or run like a man, but like an octopus that would walk if she could. Let me explain. Every time we touch the floor, a certain amount of stress occurs, which either the muscles or the bones absorb, which we can see in older people who are forced to walk like torn penguins. I CLAIM and will soon prove that man has devolved in movement, above all in walking, but there is a solution. OMEGA WALK. To confirm the knowledge and everyone who will try to dispute or ridicule the following informatio before I prove it, I will say only one thing.TEST YOURSELF IN THE FOLLOWING WAY TO CONFIRM WHAT I WILL PROVE SOON. Take off your socks and sit down, then do small movements with your feet and knees and watch your toes. What happens next WILL ABSOLUTELY BLOW YOUR MIND. For the first time YOU will see you irregularities in both feet. Each foot behaves differently. Sit down with someone else and you will laugh to tears. What happens is very interesting and is primarily the cause of poor walking. Your toes twitch and touch the floor irregularly, and each foot is different .That is the first and only information I will give here. For everything else, follow the world scene because this will be a SF story...
Thank you.
You are very welcome
My new favorite locomotor performance lab video explaining the most efficient way to walk and why. Hint: it's not what many people want it to be! Human Locomotion: Chapter 3, Ideal Motions During the Gait Cycle
ruclips.net/video/-ehoGLWYkcM/видео.html
wish I could. Hemiplegic , Post stroke. thank you though
It is almost like marching. I have to do with due to very bad Achilles tendinopathy.
Dr. Todd Martin is cringing somewhere because his philosophy is heel strike first.
I just watched a video by Grown and Healthy (in response to Bob and Brad) that describes in great detail the mechanics of walking properly. I found that lifting my knees just a little makes all the difference. I can now walk longer distances without back pain!
@@muchasalud2011 I'll have to check it out!
Agreed. Far easier and good for glutes. I’ll never go back. My Physio who works with an ortho surgeon really liked it. Husb is trying. Some here say it’s not natural or awkward but now heel to toe feels that way. 😂 Cheers
With practice, can one walk on one’s forefeet when walking rapidly, as when one is trying to cover ground quickly? I can see that it can work at a slower speed, but it seems to me that as stride lengthens to cover ground more quickly, that heel striking becomes almost inevitable.
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Instead of lengthening the stride, maintain stride length and increase cadence of steps.
One thing I've noticed, the shoes have a lot of foam rubber in the sole. It's actually wobbly. Be sure the laces are pulled snugly around the arch area. This helps with the floating wobble of shoes made in China now. The other problem with tripping can also be caused by the soles extending beyond the actual shoe. WTH that is I don't know.
Best wishes
... sorry to intrude into Bob & Brad's hugely helpful videos, but the advertisement that preceded it for Walkers Crisps I find unattractive and VULGAR! Please can someone take them down?
I have to respectfully disagree with this video. According to the Harvard Medicine website, " You should be rolling from heel to toe as you stride, not landing flat-footed with a thud." Irene Davis has a video on the biomechanics of movement, and she demonstrated how the foot is uniquely designed for these 2 distinct forms of locomotion. If you watch how children learn to walk barefoot, they heel strike, as this is the purpose of that massive fleshy surface. However, if you run barefoot, your natural landing is the forefoot. Leaning forward as you walk is unnatural and puts you at risk for falls as this puts you off balance. If you watch the way the Tarahumara walk, who are responsible for the barefoot/forefoot movement, even THEY heel strike when walking.
I understand the idea but every time I walk outside the “right way” it feels weird and goofy…
And I don’t understand how we can go through a whole video without showing somebody taking five or 10 steps - it definitely looks different and it feels different
another question: if the whole problem is hard striking, why isn’t this simply solved by having ….a soft heel, which protects us (somewhat) from the impulse of the strike
I have zero pain, but have slightly imverted bow legs, and I just feel my walk is wrong or weird. I feel I don't press my feet into the ground or something. What's going onnnnn???
Excellent advice! Walking properly and your shoes are key to eliminate foot knee and back problems. It worked for me a few years back. Changed over to wide toe box minimalist shoes. I had aching feet every night. I thought it was part of aging. Not a happy pup. Stumbled upon zero drop naturally foot shape minimalist shoes….back pain and sore feet gone in 5 days. Works for me. Today that’s all I wear is minimalist shoes for casual, sports and dress. My feet reward me with comfort.
After I tried to run with my grandson, I noticed I could walk better. You have explained why.
Thank you.
As a woman of only 5'2", I often wear heeled shoes, although these are only of medium height and are not narrow heels. Do you have any advice for ladies like myself who don't want to chuck out all our heeled shoes but still want to walk properly? Thank you!
Wanted to watch video advertisement pushes good diabetes crap foods and melatonin bs
I'm trying to slowly incorporate that new way of walking, into my daily walking. Whether it's walking around a store, or around the block. And I notice that I have muscles becoming sore. Good stuff
Is Bob ok?
Is there a way to get back into running... walk to run program for someone with a foot injury?... and also a herniated disc?
So how come the physio I saw when I had plantar fasciitis insisted that I walked wrong because I don’t heel strike properly 🙄
will walking with neuropothy, walking barefoot not using heel first.?
Hello. I know this video is a year old, but i have several leg and feet conditions. I have seen this is supposed to help plantar fasciatis. I have been dealing with that for several years. I also have posterior tibial tendonitis and tarsal tunnel syndrome. And the bavk of my Achilles tendon is usually very tight all the way up to the top of my calf muscles. I also severely overpronate and have tried stability shoes and added insoles to them. I have tried neutral shoes with insoles. I have also tried both types of shoes with just the factory insoles. I atill get some arch pain no matter what set up i try and also some heel pain. Will learning how to transition into this walking method help release my tight calves and correct overpronation problems ? And also i have been doing different calf stretches to and it just doesn't get much relief. I've been doing them for a long time to no prevail.
So confusing. One channel tells you to walk a certain way and another tells you it's wrong and to do it a different way.
Yes it's me searching "how to walk properly for men" because my dad told me I have a very bad walking posture
Another added benefit of you barefoot walk outside is grounding...
I was having right knee pain for a while now specially after running. I tired your recommendation of not rolling the foot from hill to toe. And I was really watching my form to really land on the hill and roll bc that’s how I was taught. But your recommendation really worked after just one run. Thanks a lot for making this videos. It feels weird walking without rolling the foot but I much rather avoid the knee pain.
With all respect I think that's a dumb idea. It's too toesy. When running you definitely don't want to land on your toes. Maybe if you want to be extremely slow. Why not land on your midfoot with your foot more underneath you when you walk rather than out front. That will alleviate the heel strike, but not require a toes down position.
Is barefoot walking suggested for people whose feet have pronation? I have good arches but can a person have so poor bone structure so they cannot lift themselves up by pushing off by the balls of their feet? In that case can we now make 3-D bones to replace those inadequate bones?
I run barefoot on a beach (in sand). This is exactly the stride I've developed pretty naturally.
All fine and dandy in a perfect world and then you go to work with your boots for 14 hours a day . Been fighting this for years , you can’t stop the body from wearing out.
While walking I can't feel my glutes active.. thats reason i feel tired.