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Pastimes : Walking for Health, Weight Loss or Pleasure

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To: Road Walker who wrote (340)	9/4/2014 7:43:19 PM
From: ETF1	Read Replies (1) of 364

Imagine dragging your foot behind you, leaning way front, stretching tendons on the top of your foot as the toes drag, top down, along the ground. Road Walker, see the photo below. How does that grab you? I think you meant to do this barefoot, and to have the toes curl more than the photo shows; and with the shin/lower leg almost parallel to the floor [rather than almost upright as in the photo] is what I imagine you are describing. You just want to give a little, very little stretch to the tendons on the top of your foot. They are very critical to the "push off" in running or power walking, not so much for vigorous walking which is much more heel pull (bottom foot) than foot push (top foot). Don't know what you mean when you say the tendons on top of the foot are critical to the push off. I see push off as coming from the calf muscles [gastroc/soleus] and from the flexor tendons on the bottom of the foot [toe flexors]. I see the tendons on top of the foot as being important for clearing the floor and not stubbing/dragging your toes as you bring your foot forward during the swing phase, as the leg is coming forward to take a step. How do you see this? Interesting discussion.

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