What are the benefits of women walking backwards?

Walking backwards is a very good way to lose weight, but you must master the correct way of walking backwards. From the perspective of sports health, walking backwards can help people relieve back pain. Because walking backwards is more in line with the physiological curvature of the human body, it can relax the excessive tension in the neck and waist to a certain extent. While improving the balance ability, it can also strengthen the training of the lumbar muscles. For ordinary people, walking backwards can better enhance physical fitness.

What are the benefits of women walking backwards?

1. Prevent pain such as intervertebral disc

Walking backwards can relieve or prevent pain in the intervertebral disc, shoulder, cervical vertebrae, etc. For the intervertebral disc that is used to exercise, doing some opposite movements can relieve the pressure and reduce the burden on the intervertebral disc. If you persist in walking backwards every day, problems such as intervertebral disc, cervical vertebra, and shoulder periarthritis will be improved, and your health will definitely be very good.

2. Improve lumbar muscle strain

We have always been forward-oriented. When we move forward, our body posture and pelvis lean forward. The cervical vertebrae, intervertebral discs, lumbar muscles, ankles and knees are all under relatively tight pressure. Over a long period of time, some subconscious chronic muscle strains are gradually caused. However, walking backwards can do the exact opposite, allowing the over-tense muscle groups and bones in the neck, waist and other parts of the body to gain relative relaxation, which is beneficial to the self-regulation and rehabilitation of muscle strain areas.

3. Lose weight

Walking backwards is more difficult than walking forward. In order to overcome this difficulty, we need to work harder to stimulate the coordination of various parts of the body, which makes walking backwards consume more calories than walking forward. Scientific research shows that walking backwards consumes 78% more energy than walking forward, and the heart rate increases by 47%; jogging backwards consumes 31% more energy and the heart rate increases by 15%. Walking backwards consumes a lot of kinetic energy and is a rare good way to lose weight.

4. Thin waist and peach hips

Walking backwards can slim your waist and increase the elasticity of your buttocks. Since walking backwards is actually equivalent to the backward kicking exercise in waist-slimming exercises, walking backwards for thirty minutes at random is equivalent to kicking backwards for thirty minutes, and the actual effect is quite good.

5. Avoid hunchback or stoop

Walking backwards requires the waist to be straightened or slightly leaned back, so that the spine and back muscles will bear greater force and exertion than usual, so that the spine and back muscles that cannot get sufficient exercise when walking forward will be exercised. Walking backwards can make the shoulders more upright, prevent rickets in teenagers and children, and prevent the elderly from developing hunchbacks too early.

6. Avoid Alzheimer’s disease

For the elderly, after all, walking backwards requires much more concentration than normal walking, which is very helpful for the elderly to prevent Alzheimer's disease.