How to Walk Better-Use Your Belly Button with Todd Martin MD

How to Walk Better-Use Your Belly Button. Learn how to walk properly. How to walk correctly. Use your abs to walk correctly. Learn to walk with correct heel strike. Walk without knee pain. Walk without back pain. Walk with better posture. More specifically, use your lower abs, but you can visualize the action better if you think about using your belly button. Turn your belly button from side to side as you walk as if you were paddling a row boat. The lower abs pull backward on the left to help propel the body forward when stepping with the weight on the left leg. They pull backward on the right when the weight is on the right. The timing of the lower ab activation is after the heel touches the ground and changes sides when the next heel touches the ground. In addition to helping to power the forward movement, the lower ab rotation keeps the pelvis tucked on the side of the weighted leg. This keeps the correct curvature of the lower back and prevents anterior pelvic tilt. People who walk with anterior pelvic tilt are not engaging the lower ab rotation properly. This is also true in a different way for people who walk with duck feet.

The rotation of the lower abs is coordinated with the rotation of the upper abs to allow the body to face in the desired direction. When we walk forward, we turn the upper abs in the opposite direction from the lower abs, called cross crawl. When we turn to the left or right, there is a period where we turn the upper abs and lower abs in the same direction to steer the body into the turn.

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