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Walking Is Good for You. Walking Backward Can Add to the Benefits
Backward walking strengthens underused muscles and may reduce fall risks in older adults, with physical therapists recommending it for rehabilitation and cross-training, experts say.
- Try reversing your steps and add variety to your exercise routine, as walking backward changes visual and bodily demands beyond brisk walking.
- Janet Dufek, biomechanist and faculty member at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, frames retro walking as cross-training and notes top athletes use backward running as a skill.
- Clinicians note that reverse locomotion increases hamstring flexibility, strengthens underused muscles, and reduces knee joint range of motion, aiding rehabilitation after knee injuries or surgery.
- To begin safely, add a one-minute backward segment into a 10-minute walk and start on a treadmill, as Kevin Patterson recommends its handles reduce fall risk for older clients.
- Drawing on Janet Dufek's basketball experience running backward, researchers are exploring whether retro walking improves balance and reduces fall risk in older adults.
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Brisk walking is a simple exercise with significant mental and physical benefits: stronger bones and muscles, improved cardiovascular health, and stress relief, to name a few. But, as with any exercise routine, walking can become repetitive and even boring over time.
Walking is good for you. Walking backward can add to the benefits (World)
Here's a simple way to switch up your walking routine: try walking backward. Taking a brisk walk is an exercise rich in simplicity, and it can have impressive mental and physical benefits: stronger bones and muscles, cardiovascular fitness and stress relief, to name a few. But like any workout, hoof...
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