Watch the walking backwards video. The fastest way to learn to walk forwards well is to walk backwards. The whole foot contacting the ground will come naturally.
I’ve been binge-watching your channel since a friend recommended it. The casual style of your videos enhances their immersion. Your content is excellent, both here and on your website. Thank you!
amazing. Thank you. Today my foot mechanics and proprioception felt better than it they have in years and you just described many of the mechanics that I felt working optimally. I hadn't felt it in years.
6:48 minutes watching this video. Get up and walk for 5 minutes, just feeling the weight shifting through my feet as you said. Felt like I never walked right since this moment. Every video I see from you I learn a lot, LOT, of things. I was seeking for someone who spokes on how YOU FEEL when walking or running and there you are. Thank you very much, a huge discover. The other day I discovered the hip movement during the run, like the form of infinite simbol (an 8 fallen aside) and the words: "relax", and the body responds. Amazing, and that kind of mobility+stretch, you give it a name I can remember (I'm not an English spoke person) but I'm a physiotherapist and it's great for the little "rotators" even the intrapelvic ones. Don't know, but... Everything is ok. Everything makes me improve. Just thank you, I will keep watching your content. It's gold.
Awesome….recently had surgery on right big toe (cheilectomy) and looking to get it “right”..on how to transition weight with foot strike. This video is fantastic. Thank you!!!
Ouch. Good luck with the recovery. In your case a shoe with a big toe springer will help with the recovery as it will take strain off the big toe. Later you can walk a bit more bare foot or in a more minimal and flexible shoe to help mobilize the toe, but always stay in the pain free zone
@@LawrencevanLingen Thank you for your kind words and advice! Really appreciate the manner in which you explain and let the viewer visualize the concept behind your teaching. Thank you!
Thank you once again. Love the whole body 'linkage' approach. Im sure this will become clear in future instruction , but i find with the 'foot rolling , rotating onto the big toe met, that my knee feels like it medially collapses or my VMO area strains. Just wondering if one should take note of that. Im probably stuck somewhere and looking forward to future drills.
Hi Hilana. You probably have a significant forefoot varus, so when you roll onto your big toe (first metatarsal head) it’s not there for you. I will post a link to the chat and demo with Jay Dicharry. In there he goes into detail on how he restores foot function. That should help a bunch. Also roll the outside of your foot with a firm ball like a lacross ball to level out the forefoot. Gently playing around with this idea and adding this to your walking (without the knee collapsing) should help matters.
This is great help, thank you so much. Jay Dicharry's masterclass was on my next to do list, so its certainly on my path. Yes, my lateral foot has been so tight when i roll it out. I love all to do with foot stuff, been running in vivo barefoot shoes and sandals for the past 12 years and been loving the journey and change in my body. However i have been stuck with this VMO and lateral foot tightness for a long while and am so grateful for your videos and spreading your insight. Many thanks, i especially appreciate the unedited , as it is chats without the bells and whistles. Van gogh in the background ads the special touch. I will spread the link and share.much appreciate this.
@@hilanamarais8587 aaaw thank you. As your adductor releases, very often the VMO switches back in. It’s kind of like you are grabbing with the adductor instead of lengthening or empowering with the glute max and lateral part of your leg. VMO is almost the counterpoint to a big toe that works well (no forefoot varus) and a glute max that supports spine and drives you forward. You might be excessively forefoot running in minimalist shoes. Definitely walk and lean to out your weight through the heel and learn to trust your heel and in running make sure you load the outside of the foot and depending how much forefoot you are, get that heel to kiss the ground.
Great content. If I may ... the runner that you reference at approx. 8:12 in the video, what is the name again ? I can't quite make it out, and close captioning butchered it. Thanks for the content, much appreciated.
Wade van Niekerk, he is a 400m runner so let’s call him a “sprint runner” but if you watch him his head travels over landing foot Ann also he is very balanced. His competition is very often “anterior chain biased” or head forward, hands and feet forward. Let’s say a posterior chain biased athlete would be Michael Johnson.
@@LawrencevanLingen By the way ran 2 hrs this morning after happy hips video and watching walking upstairs one too. Felt like I had not even ran!! Love the content...
I kinda like Hoka as they seem to have gotten the blend between support/stability and cushioning right for the modern shoes. You feel more cradled in the foam than balancing on top. Make sure you are stable in single stance in the shoes you do buy and make sure you love them before you buy them. We generally don’t learn to love a shoe. But I can’t recommend a specific shoe on the internet
Watch the walking backwards video. The fastest way to learn to walk forwards well is to walk backwards. The whole foot contacting the ground will come naturally.
Curently binge watching all you videos. This helped a lot.
Ha ha. Enjoy
I’ve been binge-watching your channel since a friend recommended it. The casual style of your videos enhances their immersion. Your content is excellent, both here and on your website. Thank you!
Why thank you 🙏🏻
I couldn’t agree more! I’ve been doing the same binge watching 😊
your videos have saved me from constant injuries, thank you!
Thanks Ken. That’s so nice to hear. Anything you want me to address next?
amazing. Thank you. Today my foot mechanics and proprioception felt better than it they have in years and you just described many of the mechanics that I felt working optimally. I hadn't felt it in years.
That’s so good to hear. Yes we can really turn the clock back if we understand our body and movement better.
thank u for sharing this info! please continue
Will do!
6:48 minutes watching this video.
Get up and walk for 5 minutes, just feeling the weight shifting through my feet as you said.
Felt like I never walked right since this moment.
Every video I see from you I learn a lot, LOT, of things. I was seeking for someone who spokes on how YOU FEEL when walking or running and there you are.
Thank you very much, a huge discover.
The other day I discovered the hip movement during the run, like the form of infinite simbol (an 8 fallen aside) and the words: "relax", and the body responds.
Amazing, and that kind of mobility+stretch, you give it a name I can remember (I'm not an English spoke person) but I'm a physiotherapist and it's great for the little "rotators" even the intrapelvic ones.
Don't know, but... Everything is ok. Everything makes me improve.
Just thank you, I will keep watching your content. It's gold.
Yay thank you so much
Absolute Gold. Thank you, Lawrence!
Thanks Bill 💪🏻🙏🏻
I like to work on rolling my foot when walking in flip-flops, when the heel hits the heel
Awesome….recently had surgery on right big toe (cheilectomy) and looking to get it “right”..on how to transition weight with foot strike. This video is fantastic. Thank you!!!
Ouch. Good luck with the recovery. In your case a shoe with a big toe springer will help with the recovery as it will take strain off the big toe. Later you can walk a bit more bare foot or in a more minimal and flexible shoe to help mobilize the toe, but always stay in the pain free zone
@@LawrencevanLingen Thank you for your kind words and advice! Really appreciate the manner in which you explain and let the viewer visualize the concept behind your teaching. Thank you!
Again Amazing info big thanks!
Thank you for this
My pleasure! Thanks so much for following
Amazing like always!!! Thank you!
Thanks Vlad 💪🏻
Very clearly explained.. thank you🙂
You are welcome 😊
Love it!
Thanks Peter
13:16 this is like cat-cow for the feet 🙌🏻
Thank you once again. Love the whole body 'linkage' approach. Im sure this will become clear in future instruction , but i find with the 'foot rolling , rotating onto the big toe met, that my knee feels like it medially collapses or my VMO area strains. Just wondering if one should take note of that. Im probably stuck somewhere and looking forward to future drills.
Hi Hilana. You probably have a significant forefoot varus, so when you roll onto your big toe (first metatarsal head) it’s not there for you. I will post a link to the chat and demo with Jay Dicharry. In there he goes into detail on how he restores foot function. That should help a bunch. Also roll the outside of your foot with a firm ball like a lacross ball to level out the forefoot. Gently playing around with this idea and adding this to your walking (without the knee collapsing) should help matters.
MASTERCLASS WITH JAY DICHARRY
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This is great help, thank you so much. Jay Dicharry's masterclass was on my next to do list, so its certainly on my path. Yes, my lateral foot has been so tight when i roll it out. I love all to do with foot stuff, been running in vivo barefoot shoes and sandals for the past 12 years and been loving the journey and change in my body. However i have been stuck with this VMO and lateral foot tightness for a long while and am so grateful for your videos and spreading your insight. Many thanks, i especially appreciate the unedited , as it is chats without the bells and whistles. Van gogh in the background ads the special touch. I will spread the link and share.much appreciate this.
@@hilanamarais8587 aaaw thank you. As your adductor releases, very often the VMO switches back in. It’s kind of like you are grabbing with the adductor instead of lengthening or empowering with the glute max and lateral part of your leg. VMO is almost the counterpoint to a big toe that works well (no forefoot varus) and a glute max that supports spine and drives you forward. You might be excessively forefoot running in minimalist shoes. Definitely walk and lean to out your weight through the heel and learn to trust your heel and in running make sure you load the outside of the foot and depending how much forefoot you are, get that heel to kiss the ground.
Great content. If I may ... the runner that you reference at approx. 8:12 in the video, what is the name again ? I can't quite make it out, and close captioning butchered it. Thanks for the content, much appreciated.
Wade van Niekerk, he is a 400m runner so let’s call him a “sprint runner” but if you watch him his head travels over landing foot Ann also he is very balanced. His competition is very often “anterior chain biased” or head forward, hands and feet forward. Let’s say a posterior chain biased athlete would be Michael Johnson.
Can you do a video demonstrating the Awesomizer!! I can't find the original one... Mnay thx!
Yes will do
@@LawrencevanLingen By the way ran 2 hrs this morning after happy hips video and watching walking upstairs one too. Felt like I had not even ran!! Love the content...
Lawrence do you have a shoe u could recommend for an old lady runner 🤭 I’m currently using shoes I ran in in 2012 ! Mizuno wave 9s
Thank you
I kinda like Hoka as they seem to have gotten the blend between support/stability and cushioning right for the modern shoes. You feel more cradled in the foam than balancing on top.
Make sure you are stable in single stance in the shoes you do buy and make sure you love them before you buy them. We generally don’t learn to love a shoe. But I can’t recommend a specific shoe on the internet
Lawrence, who is the runner you mentioned as the best runner ?
Wayde van Niekerk. 400m runner