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Walking backwards, also known as retro walking, offers a unique and effective way to benefit your body and enhance your health. This simple yet powerful exercise engages a variety of muscle groups that are often underutilized in forward motion. When you walk backwards, you activate your quadriceps, calves, and hamstrings in a different manner than usual, promoting balanced muscle development and improved strength. Additionally, retro walking challenges and strengthens stabilizing muscles in your hips, lower back, and core, leading to enhanced posture and stability. This movement also demands greater use of your neural pathways and proprioception, essentially training your brain to better understand and control body movements. Furthermore, walking backwards can alleviate the strain on your knees, as it requires less knee joint stress compared to forward walking. Numerous studies highlight its cardiovascular benefits, showing that it can significantly improve heart health and calorie burning. As an added bonus, walking backwards can boost your mental focus and coordination, making it a holistic exercise that benefits both body and mind. Embrace this unique fitness activity to transform your health, improve your muscle tone, and experience a refreshing change in your exercise routine.
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00:00If there's one thing that I'd like you to try is to start walking backwards.
00:06We call it retro-walking.
00:09It's good for your brain, your balance, your heart, your muscles, your joints, your knees,
00:15your ankles.
00:16Look what I'm doing.
00:18I'm stepping on my toe, then my heel, rather than the opposite.
00:22We're isolating different muscles.
00:24If you have knee problems, quadricep problems, buttocks, low back problems, this is something
00:31you want to do.
00:33You're going to engage muscles, increase flexibility, and help increase the vitality of your joints
00:40so you can stay healthy.
00:42And there's nothing better when it comes to your cardiovascular system, your heart, your
00:47lungs, your blood, lowering blood pressure, increasing your metabolic rate.
00:53This can do wonders for your body.
00:56This will help burn off that excess glucose.
00:58You can burn up to 30% more calories by just walking backwards.
01:04As we isolate different muscles, your body's working harder, and your body's going to do
01:09great things for you.
01:10And walking backwards will help you think more clearly, help you concentrate better.
01:16It affects different neurons throughout your brain.
01:19And what about your joints, the mechanical receptors?
01:23The joints and the brain are working together all the time.
01:27As we use different joints, different bodily motions, our brain then is learning new things.
01:32It's going through different changes, and it's growing as the neurons are working better,
01:38helping you have better balance.
01:39That the majority of people out there, as we get older, fall because of imbalance, dizziness.
01:45This will help prevent that dizziness.
01:48This will help give you better balance.
01:50This will help support your body so you can stay healthy.
01:54And walking backwards can help you grow spiritually, mentally, and physically by taking on something
02:00new in our life, trying something you haven't explored.
02:06Feeling and reaping the benefits, being out in nature, just having fun, and feeling healthy
02:12once again.
02:13And what about our endorphins?
02:16Just that nice, pleasant, light feeling that gives us that happy mood.
02:21Our serotonin, our dopamine, as well as all those neurotransmitters just turning on and
02:27glowing by just walking backwards and feeling good and going on another day.
02:33And with all the millions and millions of people worldwide who have orthopedic problems,
02:37like hip problems, knee problems, runner's knee, tendonitis, anterior tibialis, plantar
02:45fasciitis, problems under the feet.
02:49By walking backwards, we're isolating the quads.
02:52We're strengthening the quads.
02:54We're strengthening the anterior tibialis as we're stretching the plantar fascia region.
03:01By doing this exercise, you're going to unload what you've been loading.
03:05You're going to undo what you've been doing.
03:07Start walking backwards, and your joints are going to love you.
03:11And when it comes to your glutes, you want to tone them up?
03:15Put your hands on them right now and walk backwards.
03:17As you bring your thigh backwards, the glutes kick in.
03:20They isolate.
03:21They contract.
03:22Just keep walking backwards, and over the course of hundreds and thousands of steps
03:26going backwards over time, your glutes are going to get more shape, they're going to
03:30get more tone, and you're going to look so much better in the pants that you wear.
03:35So remember, it's not about how fast or slow you go.
03:40It's just walking backwards and isolating those muscles, standing up tall and relaxing.
03:46When it comes to your heart, your lungs, your brain, your joints, your muscles, your proprioception,
03:54your balance, your calmness, your serenity, there are so many things that's going to work
04:00in your favor.
04:01So just keep walking backwards.
04:04I challenge you, and your body will love you.
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