So, when you\u2019re standing, the first thing you can start doing to start easing your foot problems is to practice your standing.\u00a0 Now, this one you can do in the grocery line.\u00a0 You can do this when you\u2019re waiting anywhere, waiting for somebody.\u00a0 Just practice your standing.<\/p>\n
Now, let me show you a couple of things that also happen because a lot of us either tend to be in our heels or on our toes.\u00a0 We don\u2019t have even pressure forward-to-back, and if we are one of those people that puts into the back, what the body is going to do to shift is I\u2019m going to push my hips forward.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to get this kind of look.\u00a0 Does this look familiar to some people?\u00a0 Exaggerated, very exaggerated.\u00a0 My chiropractor\u2019s like, \u201cI\u2019ve seen that a million times.\u201d\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 This is how it starts to happen.\u00a0 The weight\u2019s back in the heels, and then everything has to push forward.\u00a0 So, not only do we have to worry about this whole thing going on.\u00a0 Now, we\u2019ve got to worry about this whole thing going on.<\/p>\n
Second thing, some people are way forward here.\u00a0 If I\u2019m way forward, my body\u2019s going to do this.\u00a0 Now, I\u2019ve got to readjust so that I can stay upright.\u00a0 I\u2019m putting all my pressure forward, and it\u2019s pressing me forward now.<\/p>\n
So, when we\u2019re thinking about those three points, yes, we\u2019ve got to be balanced.\u00a0 That way, we\u2019re going to balance front-to-back.\u00a0 When we\u2019re going be balanced front-to-back, as we do that to find this person, and I\u2019m supinating out, as soon as I start to pull this back up and I get even, I\u2019m going to find my pressure pushing in keeping me grounded.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to lift right on up through my spine.\u00a0 That\u2019s not me doing effort. A lot of people are going to be like, \u201cThis is I get my posture.\u00a0 I squeeze my shoulders back, and I puff my chest out.\u00a0 That makes me taller.\u201d\u00a0 No, if you just correct these little things, it will naturally pull you right on up, and you don\u2019t even have to worry about shifting your spine and all these other ways they tell you to get your posture.\u00a0 Makes sense?<\/p>\n
Anybody got any questions thus far?\u00a0 Just want to make sure you\u2019re with me.\u00a0 Let me know if you\u2019re not.<\/p>\n
So, as we find our balance when we\u2019re standing, we find those points that I mentioned, the V point, and then we just find that front-to-back place.\u00a0 That\u2019s your first thing. Start practicing your standing.\u00a0 You\u2019re probably not going to be able to do this for long periods of time.\u00a0 This is going to be like a hold it for a minute, let the body go, try it again later.\u00a0 As you start to get more strength and find that foot supporting and the body structure holding you again, then you\u2019ll find that you\u2019ll be able to hold it longer.\u00a0 It will temporarily fatigue you, but in the long run, it will help you get more endurance and stamina.\u00a0 Why is this?\u00a0 When we\u2019re doing these things that are out of balance, the pronation and all of these things, we fatigue the muscles.\u00a0 Your endurance goes down.\u00a0 Your stamina goes down.<\/p>\n
For my athletes, if you\u2019ve got problems with your feet, this is going to make you a lot more tired during the day.\u00a0 Those of you that stand on your feet a lot, it\u2019s going to make you get tired a lot faster during the day.\u00a0 If you fix these problems, the fatiguing stops happening because all of the muscles start working together. I like to say, it\u2019s like getting more to join the party.\u00a0 You don\u2019t want less to join the party.\u00a0 You want more to join the party.\u00a0 Instead of one or two muscles doing all the work, you want 50 muscles doing the work.\u00a0 Think about how much stronger you are.\u00a0 Think of how much more active you\u2019re going to be that way, and think of how much endurance and stamina you\u2019ll have.<\/p>\n
As you\u2019re going finding this balance and you get this place, understand, initially, you\u2019re not going to be able to hold it long because the muscles don\u2019t know how to hold it. \u00a0It\u2019s going to be like a workout for them.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to get fatigue, and they\u2019re going to be like, \u201cOkay.\u00a0 I need to go back\u201d.\u00a0 Then, you work them again, and as you continue to work them, you\u2019ll be able to hold them for longer and longer periods of time.\u00a0 You\u2019ll start to find that as you\u2019re standing, you\u2019ll have less pain as you stand.\u00a0 You\u2019ll have that achiness start to go away, and you\u2019ll be able to hold a little bit longer.\u00a0 So, standing is the first place you can start practicing, and you can do it anywhere.<\/p>\n
Second thing we can talk about is your walking.\u00a0 I do not recommend doing this in public at first because if you have ever tried to change your walk, it does not look natural.\u00a0 Let me tell you.\u00a0 I\u2019m going to tell you to change your walk, and you\u2019re going to start doing this.\u00a0 I don\u2019t think you want to be doing that in public in front of people.\u00a0 It could be awkward.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll do that if I have to.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n
Do it a half mile a day.<\/p>\n
You try to change, and it looks at you so odd because you\u2019re trying to <\/i>[17:16]<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not natural, and almost 99% of the people, when they start changing their walk, it does not look natural because when we start thinking about something you\u2019ve done so long on that subconscious level, your body just goes I don\u2019t know what to do and it looks awkward.\u00a0 <\/i>So, do it in the privacy of your own home until you get comfortable with it and can figure it out.<\/p>\n
When you\u2019re walking, there\u2019s a couple of things we have going on here.\u00a0 Naturally, because of our shoes, our shoes cause a lot of problems.\u00a0 Naturally, when we start to walk, the shoes have been built to make us not walk naturally.\u00a0 So, our bodies have been trained to make us not walk naturally, and shoes are big, big, big problem and a big reason for this.\u00a0 Shoes and athletics only really started coming around, the soled shoes, really started coming around in the 1970s.\u00a0 This is when Nike came together.\u00a0 They started putting thicker soles for athletes.\u00a0 Before that, most athletes wore very, very thin-soled shoes and did more barefoot-type stuff.\u00a0 It\u2019s only really in the last 30-some years that shoes in athletics have really gotten bulky, and then they put all these different things in it. What they really had to do when they started putting these cushionings in and raising the heel, which, as you see, the heel is raised, which is unnatural to the body.\u00a0 As the heel became raised, they had to put all these supports into the arch to counterbalance so it didn\u2019t throw you off, throw you forward.<\/p>\n
So, all these shoes out there, arch support or these other shoes that talk about air cushions, they\u2019ve gotten really bulky and gotten really big.\u00a0 They\u2019re the most unnatural to the body.\u00a0 They don\u2019t actually contact or allow your feet to be the spring that they\u2019re supposed to be.\u00a0 Feet are shock absorbers to the body.\u00a0 When this is doing all the shock absorbing for you and creating an unnatural, many times it causes more shock to the body, and I\u2019m going to explain why here.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to look at a couple of things.\u00a0 Heel is raised, so this is going to cause you to strike fairly hard into the heel. When you strike fairly hard into the heel, this can go for runners, see how flexed my ankle is.\u00a0 I have just taken a lot of energy and a lot of force and put it right into the body.\u00a0 Now, all this force comes up through the body.<\/p>\n
Naturally, when we walk there is a little bit of a heel strike. \u00a0There is a softness to it, hopefully a softness, although some of us don\u2019t.\u00a0 We all got our different walks.\u00a0 We\u2019ll talk about it, but that big strike right there is putting a lot of force.\u00a0 The ankle\u2019s not moving.\u00a0 That\u2019s because the shoes naturally been made to make that happen to you.\u00a0 That raised heel causes that kind of reaction.\u00a0 All that cushioning was put in there to try make your body not have shock, to be a shock absorber.\u00a0 In reality, what it does is it does the opposite.\u00a0 So, that heel\u2019s been raised.<\/p>\n
Second thing we can look at here.\u00a0 See how the toe goes up?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Does anybody have toes that do this?\u00a0 Do your toes look like that? No.\u00a0 They want to touch the ground.\u00a0 This is part of reality.\u00a0 The feet want to touch the ground.\u00a0 Those toes are meant to do something.\u00a0 They\u2019re not just supposed to be up in the air, hanging out, doing little things, waving to people.\u00a0 The toes are meant to be on the floor.\u00a0 They\u2019re meant to ground you.\u00a0 So, the shoe naturally creates this rolling action, which our feet should roll, except what it\u2019s doing is making it an unnatural rolling action because it makes that really hard strike.\u00a0 Then, what happens is, most of us, because of this raised toe, we don\u2019t roll through our toes.\u00a0 We actually end up not using any of our toe.\u00a0 We keep our ankle really hard, and we don\u2019t roll.<\/p>\n
Now, this is a pretty stiff walk, right?\u00a0 Again, everything I do is exaggerated.\u00a0 This is not what you look like. You look like some version of this but not like this.\u00a0 So, this is how most people walk.\u00a0 If I\u2019ve got my front forward people.\u00a0 See how hard that is on the body?\u00a0 There\u2019s not naturalness to it.\u00a0 Now, you may not look like this yet, but there\u2019s probably some version of this stiffness that happened to your walk.<\/p>\n
Last thing, see these soles?\u00a0 There\u2019s no bend in these babies.\u00a0 How much of your soles?\u00a0 That thing isn\u2019t going anywhere, and I\u2019m a pretty strong girl.\u00a0 Wait, I might get it.\u00a0 There\u2019s no bend to these soles so you don\u2019t have that ability for your foot to maneuver in the way that it should or to spread and open in the way that it should, to have that contact, that groundedness.<\/p>\n
So, I have some shoes that I like, and the reason why I like them is, although this has a little bit of the toe, it\u2019s not that much.\u00a0 Notice the heel\u2019s not that high.\u00a0 You want the heel that helps a lot.\u00a0 Try to avoid the shoes that have a really high toe.\u00a0 See how much give these things have?\u00a0 Why I like them is because they have a lot of give.\u00a0 They\u2019re very natural.\u00a0 I can feel the ground underneath me.\u00a0 They\u2019re very nice to have, those type of shoes.<\/p>\n
In a moment, I\u2019m going to talk about the minimalist shoes, which I\u2019m a big proponent of, but I want to talk about the walk.\u00a0 I want to show you one of those soles that are hard and a sole that\u2019s a little bit less hard.\u00a0 When we walk, as we\u2019re moving through, we have to consider our points.\u00a0 This is where it gets a little tricky because now we\u2019ve got take that all those things we learned from standing and bring it over to our walk.\u00a0 Remember those points of contact.\u00a0 When we walk, we have to make sure we keep those points of contact.\u00a0 What we\u2019re going to notice is, for those of us that have that rolling out, we\u2019re going to wear on the outside of our feet because we walk on the outside of our feet.\u00a0 Those of us that have that pronation, we\u2019re going to find that front of the big toe, you\u2019re going to have some wear going on in there.<\/p>\n
You\u2019re going to find that balance again.\u00a0 Look at your shoes and look at the wear pattern.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to tell you, when you walk, what do you like to do.\u00a0 You\u2019re going out.\u00a0 You\u2019re going in.\u00a0 So, the first thing you got to do in your walk is get that balance.\u00a0 Get that place that when you walk, you\u2019ve got the points, the V points.\u00a0 That\u2019s the first place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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