Quote: (07-31-2013 07:59 AM)Kieran Wrote:
To build on Soup's advice for walking, one thing that can help is to walk using the power of your hamstrings and glutes, as opposed to how most people walk, which is to be bent forward at the waist and propelling yourself upwards and forwards with the quads and calves. Maintaining an upright posture while using your hamstrings to power your movement pushes your crotch forwards, and makes you look like you're gliding across the ground (like a sprinter in the mid portion of a race when they are using nearly all hamstrings and glutes), not all jerking up and down and bent over because of tight hip flexors. I walk like this naturally due to having been taught to move with my hamstrings in sprinting, and can remember loads of compliments over the years, including the moving like an animal one a few times as with Soup. Try it, you will feel the difference.
^^^This. I recently changed my running form to correct anterior pelvic tilt. Basically I used to run leaning forwards from the waist. Now that I've loosened my hip flexors I can run upright, and boy my hams and glutes really feel the difference! I walk much more smoothly and lightly now, too.