Strengthening The Core Won't Fix Your Walk-This Will

Learn to coordinate your core to improve the way you walk and your overall body function. Strengthening and stretching alone won't do it.
Strengthening the Core Won't Fix Your Walk-This Will. In this video I show 5 simple exercises that will help you coordinate the core muscles to fix your gait and keep you spine and other joints aligned. Strengthening the core is a common therapist treatment for many types of chronic pain as well as walking technique issues like duck feet. But is it really the fix? Many people who have clearly strong muscles suffer from chronic back pain, poor posture, duck feet, knee issues and more. I believe the real problem is faulty coordination of the core muscles in the waist and the hips. Since we don't have to work against gravity when standing up, only a limited amount of functional strength is needed, no more that would be present in any healthy individual. One of the 13 Essential Principles of Tai Chi is Coordinate Upper and Lower. This means the upper core (waist muscles) and lower core (hip muscles). There are precise ways these muscles should interact with one another, but many people do not find the correct way to make them interact. The Walking Code teaches the 8 fundamental patterns we should be using to coordinate the core muscles. In this video I show 5 simple exercises that help you practice the fundamental patterns used in normal gait and posture. Simply strengthening muscles will not fix the problems associated with poor walking technique any more than it would help you become a better salsa dancer. The problem is about the pattern of movement, not muscle strength. Now, if you have had an injury or surgery, or been incapacitated so that your muscles have severely weakened, you may indeed need some strengthening exercises to bring you back up to normal functional strength. So, do your physical therapy exercises. But if you want to find the root cause of the problem, you have to look at the way you are coordinating your muscles.

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