Treadmill Workouts: Walking And Jogging Backwards

Title: Treadmill Workouts: Walking And Jogging Backwards
Author: Ashish Jain

 

Treadmills have created a buzz for fitness freaks. Everyone
desires to own a machine of their own. But just owning a
treadmill won't give you all the benefits. With possession of a
good treadmill, you also require that adequate knowledge to make
good use of it.
 
Nowadays, treadmill are manufactured with a plethora of
workouts programs, suiting everybody's needs. All you need to do
is to first realize your requirements and then make the use of
the treadmill exercising. With a good and sturdy treadmill, you
can practice different walking styles. Lately, walking and
jogging in backward styles have caught the attention of most of
the fitness freaks.
 
Backward walking or jogging gives you those benefits that your
forward walking might be missing on you. The muscle activity
that happens when you walk backward is entirely different from
the one that happens when you walk straight.
 
But one thing is common. Whether you walk backward or straight,
your hands should be off the side rails. Now, you must be
wondering that what benefits a free hand holds, while you are on
a treadmill workout. When you let go your hands of the treadmill
machine, the postural muscles of your legs, ankles and hips come
into action. Thus walking back with your hands off the railing
works as a conditioner to your ankles. This further works in the
direction of improving your body balance.
 
Another important thing that you need to keep in mind while
walking backward is that you should always start slow. When you
feel that you have sufficiently adjusted to the treadmill
exercising, you can increase your speed. An advantage that
backward walking has is that the muscles that would not be used
while walking straight are enticed through this process, thus
giving you more physical advantages.
 
Like other workout programs, backward walking on treadmill
comes with certain variations. This is done to make your
exercising fun while giving you reap the maximum benefits. The
most useful of them is the incline walking. Today the machines
are designed as such that you don't have to worry too much about
the inclination that you would prefer to use. The recommended
inclination that is beneficial is around 15 per cent with a
speed of 2 mph. Besides this, you can also benefit yourself from
inclined low walks. This can be done by lowering your center of
gravity and keeping your back straight.
 
And on the top of all this, you can introduce some interval
sessions in your backward walking treadmill workout and reap in
further benefits.

 

 

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