How to Power-Walk

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In the cells to the body to nourish it, nutrients actually go into the cell, debris comes out to the cell. So by breathing deeply you are getting actions, so you do not get tight muscle, lactic acid build up and when we improperly breathe our muscles get tight and cramp. So you want to keep deep breathing, proper breathing is about half the benefit you are going to get in exercising.

So mouth open, head is in line with the shoulder so it is not cranny, five degree angle. Now the wrist bone is at the hipbone. Now you will see a lot of walkers walking with their arms across their chest like that, wrong. Because visualize this in slow motion. If you want to go like this, you are twisting the upper body against the lower body. You are working in opposite directions; you want the arms at right angles.

Now this is a right angle, back and forth right angles and the wrist bone here is at the hipbone it is not way up and it is not way down. Some people kind of drop the arms down, you do not want them drop you want the wrist bone at the wrist bone at the hipbone. So this way is nice and even. Now, just walk back and forth here for a moment, I just want to show people. Now his hips are relaxed, and his shoulders are relaxed, he is leaning forward and he is landing on his heel and pushing off the toe. Thank you.

Now I am going to show this to you over here. If I walk normally, I am stepping like this I am landing in the middle of foot and picking up my leg up. I am having to lift this leg up and put it sown. I want to be far more efficient, and the efficiency is I am going to land on the heel and push off the toe. That is why power walking is frequently called heel toe. So it is heel, toe, alright? I am landing on the heel pushing off the toe. Heel to the last thing that you feel is your big toe pushing off, alright?

So if you were standing in front of a mirror, you are going heel going up and down to get that feeling of pushing off the ball on toe of the foot pushing off. You will develop your claves which is good; you will get nice calve development.

Now, here is what it looks like from behind so that you will see how is it is. Relax the hips, let the hip flow. Almost like a Marilyn Monroe walk alright? Almost like a samba. So you are walking, see now here is now the fellows got a good form, look at heel toe relaxed, nice and relaxed.
All right so watch the form again heel toe, relax the hips, let the hip flow let it glide because when I raise my hips slightly and I extend my leg out I have a longer stride then if I did not extend my hip. Also when I raise my hip up and I come over, I am using my gluteus I am using my thigh, I am using my whole leg. Whereas if I do not move my hips, then I am raising the leg up and down, up and down, up and down.

So it is all one motion, wrist bone at the hip bone alright? Right angles, head up, mouth open, breathing, ear at the shoulder alright? Landing on the heel pushing off the toe, keeping the feet close to the ground, a nice close smooth movement and it looks like this. Relaxing the hips and letting the hip flow. By the way, holding some weights in your hand and doing this in the mirror also is good because you are going to be working the upper body.

So here are some of the benefits of power walking. First you are burning more calories per muscle group power walking than you are running, because running you really are using your legs. But with power walking, you are using all these muscles, so you are developing better chest muscles, shoulder muscles, back muscles, because these are the pistons. This is what drives you, the arms drive you. So you speed up the power and phase of your arms, you get your whole aerobic up.

Now what I always recommend people do before they start is make sure you have no cardiovascular disease, you have no hidden high blood pressure that would cause you risk if you went out and start in an exercise program. Make sure that you check with your physician, cardiologist preferably and get a good bill of health for your start. Then always take your pulse for 60 seconds never [Audio Cut]


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