Back in 2007, I was way ahead of my time, allegedly.
I put out a course on reverse training called Dao Zou. It was the first of its kind in the history of the whirld.
In this course I taught various walking patterns, all going backwards. The benefits were huge for brain, body, spirit and soul.
In the final segment there’s footage of me running backwards, as well as bear crawling and doing the monkey bars.
But to top it off I got in the pool and swam butterfly backwards.
When you move in reverse, you go into another realm of consciousness, in part because you are creating new neural pathways in the brain. This happens when you learn any new movement pattern, but it especially happens when you put your body in reverse.
Today, there are many people talking about backward walking, which is great, but none of them go beyond the fact that it helps strengthen and rehabilitate your ankles, knees, hips and lower back.
None of them talk about the brain benefits or the psycho-spiritual benefits, such as improved memory and the purging of negative emotions, such as anger, grief, sadness and fear.
Dao Zou alone will work wonders for your mind and body.
But the truth is there are other movement patterns I now teach that take the good times and let them roll even further.
Zigzag walking, as an example, teaches you how to turn on a dime, change directions, to ramp up your running speed effortlessly.
Then there’s step back and whirl arms, where you learn to coordinate full body movements of legs and arms in reverse, which improves leg strength, balance and the functioning of your kidneys.
Yes, there’s more.
But perhaps the most important plus, to many people, is that you don’t need to engage for an hour or more to get results.
You can practice each of the eight stepping patterns for one minute each, giving you an eight-minute workout that invigorates and strengthens you without the angst and pressure of thinking you must put in 10,000 or more steps per day.
Walking too much in the same old way doesn’t benefit your brain and body nearly as much as changing it up does.
Typically, with a long walk, it usually isn’t until you hit the 40-minute mark before you start to feel the endorphins kick in.
Not true with Warrior Walking. You feel the energy rise and the endorphin rush within a couple minutes. I say “within” because you may feel it in 60 seconds or less.
That’s significant, eh?
As I tell my students, you can work hard and spend a long time to feel good, or you can get to the meat of the matter quickly, the choice is yours.
Here are the links for these two programs:
Both are game changers.
Change the way you walk and the way you walk changes the way you feel.
Matt Furey
