How to Walk-5 Arm Swing Variations That Reveal Your Posture, Persona, and Potential Health Issues

5 Arm Swing Variations That Reveal Your Posture, Persona, and Potential Health Issues. Walking is one of the best exercises and it is also how most people get around. One of the easiest ways to tell if your walking technique is correct is to look at your arm swing. Variations in arm swing can reveal poor posture, lack of confidence, or even vulnerability to specific health issues. I will look the characteristics of normal, optimal, arm swing and then look at 5 variations and what they mean.

Normal Walking Arm Swing-associated with good posture, confidence, and low impact on the joints
No Arm Swing-Associated with slouching posture, can signify timidness and lack of confidence. It also can cause neck and back pain issues
Exaggerated Arm Swing-Throwing the arms too far forward and back can be a sign of poor posture. It also can cause strain on the back and heavy heel strike. The heavy heel strike can damage the knees and cause knee pain.
Out and Away-Duck foot walking is one of the most common walking variations, and you can see it not only in the feet, but in the arms. It causes the shoulders to roll forward, compressing the rotator cuff tendons, potentially leading to chronic shoulder issues.
No Arm Swing-Associated with a forward bend is associated with frail and elderly people or people with conditions like Parkinson's disease.
Bent Elbows-Bending at the elbows is associated with power walking. It isn't just because of walking fast. It is related to how the hip action interacts with the rotation of the waist. I don't go into this in detail in this video because it is complex. I describe it more in detail in my video on power walking, which I will link here.

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