Best Exercise for Balance and Walking with Todd Martin MD-The Walking Code

Improve your balance and walking technique with these simple but powerful exercises.

Best Exercise for Balance and Walking-Exercises that strengthen your muscles won't help your balance unless they teach your muscles how to coordinate with each other in the proper way. Balance and stability with walking requires a clear pattern of coordination between all of your core muscles. In this video I will demonstrate one of the best exercises for balance and to reduce the risk of falling. It will also help you with your posture and walking technique. If you can perform this exercise, you can walk with perfect posture and balance. It will just take a little practice. As I go through the exercise, it will also help you understand important core movements like tucking the pelvis, using your glutes the right way, and keeping your spine vertical as you walk. This is a Tai Chi exercise demonstrated with Walking Code core movement understanding. You will be able to place your heel lightly with less impact on your hips and knees. This exercise also helps prevent over-pronation of the foot.

Contained in the Video:
How to fix anterior pelvic tilt
How to fix duck feet
Can you fix duck feet
How to tuck the pelvis
How to use the glutes walking
How to use the hip flexors walking
How to walk properly

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[ToddMartinMD]

Let me know what balance exercises have been the most helpful for you.

[lucagian]

excellent! it is very interesting watching the single steps learnt up untill now intermingle and work together. i hope to see more.

[bhavandeepmann]

I love this video. Do you have any videos showing how I can slow down my walk

[bhavandeepmann]

I know this is difficult to explain and may be stupid but can you make a video about stopping after walking because everytime I stop I lean and tend to go forward and also on turning smoothly in motion etc hope this make sense
Ps my walking has improved so much since watching your videos I’m so glad I found your channel

[Husayn]

Hi, doc
I want to ask you a question:
Is doing core strengthen exercises help in correcting my duck foot

[paulfield]

I have become an avid follower of functional movement. Your videos on walking have had a profound influence on my movement patterns. If you can produce a video on

walking backward it would be appreciated. There is a tendency for seniors to lose their balance in that direction.

Any tips on breathing while moving.? Thanks Paul Field

[gemmadidit]

It's a lot easier to learn by showing the movement first then explaining...

[furkandalyan]

Professor, I have a walking posture disorder problem. Which of your videos do I need to watch and can you add Turkish subtitles to that video?

[NJP]

Hey dr. Todd, may i ask why my hips lean forward just before i shift my weight to my forward leg and how do i stop this? Thank you in advance💕

[Scott_-qonk]

Hello I have a question im slightly bowlegged so it's not serious but how am I supposed to walk to make it less noticable?

[bonniemeads]

Would like to know proper way to walk up and down hills? Enjoy your informative videos.

[BlacobJ]

Hi todd! I have had an anterior pelvic tilt and a standing/walking duck foot from as far back as i can remember (i’m 21 now) the strange thing is that the duck foot only seems to be mostly on the right side/foot. i’ve been doing exercises to help with tibial internal rotation and stretches to try to reduce the external rotation for about a month (as well as exercises and stretches to decrease my APT . it’s seeming to have a positive effect on the position of my foot but i still struggle to walk without the floppy duck foot form on my right side. do you think that having it for this long has made the tibial torsion anatomical and that the only thing i can do is manage? or would you know of any ways that i can ensure the return to a straight foot walk/stand?

let me know if i need to elaborate further

[iwill]

Hey, When I walk. I walk with my feet close together, It's almost similar to the feminine way of walking but when I walk like that it moves my shoulder automatically perceived as way too confident, What do you think on the way I walk. I suggest you have a try walking using this technique

[teresahenderson]

You talk far too much which is costing you subscribers. Just show the exercise and quit proselytizing. I spent 35 years in Orthpaedics and most patients can’t remember the Latin term for muscles nor do they care. Boring = clicking off.