walking backwards as an exercise

fatlazyless · 10-17-2025, 08:57 PM

Hey, here's a new wrinkle on walking as personal exercise ...... by walking backward ...... ha-ha-ha!

http://www.uclahealth.org/news/artic...ased-cognition ..... "Walking backwards may have link to increased cognition"

I have easy access to the #1 best, most safe, public town sidewalk to make this happen for myself with a very high degree of safety because the sidewalk is very wide with a continuous indented center line for navigating walking backward without looking to see where I am going for about 300-yards, length. I just look down at my two feet and follow the indented line while walking backward plus this sidewalk usually does not have too many others on it. Is sort of like rowing a row boat where you always look to the stern and not forward to see where you are going. This public sidewalk construction is very unusual and totally excellent for walking backward.

Like, who knew? Probably nobody knew it is an ideal sidewalk for walking backward ...... ho-ho-ho!

Typically, I walk a 2.5-mile loop walk in the early morning about six days per week, and will try to walk backward on this 300-yard sidewalk as part of the 2.5-mile loop. I did it today and walking backward uses some different muscles in the lower back and hips that do not get so much use when walking normally forward.

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/b...king-backwards ...... Health Benefits of Walking Backward

Got a few strange looks from passing cars but so what! And it's a paved black asphalt sidewalk complete with a perfect continuous gray granite curb, about six inches high that helps to separate the sidewalk pedestrians from this passing automobile traffic on the town, two-way road with 25-mph speed limit.

It feels like it's working areas in both hips that do not normally get worked when walking forward. It also works on my sense of balance, the inner ear.

This side walk was constructed where there was no sidewalk before by the Pizzagalli Construction Co., Burlington, Vermont in 1990 and they did one hell of a good sidewalk construction job because 35-years later it is still totally solid and in excellent condition ........ www.pcconstruction.com ....... a sidewalk built to last and last and last with real gray granite curb and black slightly crested designer asphalt.

Who knows but if I do this six days per week, maybe others will see me and try it for themself what with this high visibility town sidewalk? Like, what's the h is he doing? And, why is he walking backward? Is too early for him to be drunk? ........

....... so what the heck is up with that ...... walking backward?

Maybe I can snag a video from Clark's Bears in North Woodstock, NH with a black bear walking backwards while standing up vertical on its two rear legs ...... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAlH01O3cuw ........ and post it here?

So, if a black bear can walk backwards can it also dance the Cha-cha-cha?

10-17-2025, 08:57 PM	#1
fatlazyless Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 8,922 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 306 Thanked 1,054 Times in 767 Posts	walking backward as an exercise Hey, here's a new wrinkle on walking as personal exercise ...... by walking backward ...... ha-ha-ha! http://www.uclahealth.org/news/artic...ased-cognition ..... "Walking backwards may have link to increased cognition" I have easy access to the #1 best, most safe, public town sidewalk to make this happen for myself with a very high degree of safety because the sidewalk is very wide with a continuous indented center line for navigating walking backward without looking to see where I am going for about 300-yards, length. I just look down at my two feet and follow the indented line while walking backward plus this sidewalk usually does not have too many others on it. Is sort of like rowing a row boat where you always look to the stern and not forward to see where you are going. This public sidewalk construction is very unusual and totally excellent for walking backward. Like, who knew? Probably nobody knew it is an ideal sidewalk for walking backward ...... ho-ho-ho! Typically, I walk a 2.5-mile loop walk in the early morning about six days per week, and will try to walk backward on this 300-yard sidewalk as part of the 2.5-mile loop. I did it today and walking backward uses some different muscles in the lower back and hips that do not get so much use when walking normally forward. https://health.clevelandclinic.org/b...king-backwards ...... Health Benefits of Walking Backward Got a few strange looks from passing cars but so what! And it's a paved black asphalt sidewalk complete with a perfect continuous gray granite curb, about six inches high that helps to separate the sidewalk pedestrians from this passing automobile traffic on the town, two-way road with 25-mph speed limit. It feels like it's working areas in both hips that do not normally get worked when walking forward. It also works on my sense of balance, the inner ear. This side walk was constructed where there was no sidewalk before by the Pizzagalli Construction Co., Burlington, Vermont in 1990 and they did one hell of a good sidewalk construction job because 35-years later it is still totally solid and in excellent condition ........ www.pcconstruction.com ....... a sidewalk built to last and last and last with real gray granite curb and black slightly crested designer asphalt. Who knows but if I do this six days per week, maybe others will see me and try it for themself what with this high visibility town sidewalk? Like, what's the h is he doing? And, why is he walking backward? Is too early for him to be drunk? ........ ....... so what the heck is up with that ...... walking backward? Maybe I can snag a video from Clark's Bears in North Woodstock, NH with a black bear walking backwards while standing up vertical on its two rear legs ...... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAlH01O3cuw ........ and post it here? So, if a black bear can walk backwards can it also dance the Cha-cha-cha? __________________ .... Banned for life from local thrift store! Last edited by fatlazyless; 10-19-2025 at 10:57 AM.