Originally Posted by
Awesomeguy
how much do you walk ?
About 3 miles at a 3 mph pace. When I walk specifically for back rehab, I use a special motion, rotating each hip in a circle as best as I'm able. When I've been fixing a sciatica attack, that hurts like the devil for the first mile, then gets better. If you don't have pain while walking just a normal walk works fine. Oddly or perhaps not oddly at all, walking seems to be about the best core exercise, works everything. I guess that makes sense, after all we are bipeds and are supposed to be walking during many of our waking hours, but we don't do that much now that everything is mechanized - and the bike is also a machine. Thus many of our core muscles are activated specifically by walking - that's what they're for.