Last night I received the following text message:
Matt,
Have you seen the latest Feynman video on YouTube about the powers of walking backwards and how it restores brain and body functions, improves balance and memory, improves intelligence and how 10 minutes of it per day is far superior to walking forwards for any length of time? If you haven’t, the title of the video is “Why Walking Backwards Fixes What Forward Walking Breaks.” It’s awesome and it proves that once again, el Furecat, was way ahead of his time in his products. Your Dao Zou and Warrior Walking products rule. I thought you were full of B.S. when you first said that you only needed five to ten minutes a day of walking backwards to surpass 10,000 or 15,000 forward steps per day. Now the science has caught up to what you’ve been teaching all along. Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU.
Kyle
Kyle,
Yes, I saw the video. Although I used to feel somewhat ignored on this matter, I can’t ignore a video that scientifically confirms what I figured out over 20 years ago. The video is great but the key thing to keep in mind is that your movement patterns need to be interrupted. If you walk the same-ole, same-ole, you’re going to get insanely old before your time. What I’ve been teaching for so long is neither B.S., nor H.S., nor D.S., or any other sort of S.
Dao Zou, or reverse training, doesn’t just teach “backward walking,” though. It teaches neurogenic pattern interruptions that cause a synap in your synapse. You can benefit just by walking backwards, but that is of little value when compared to all the shifts, changes and speed variances I teach, not to mention how to activate various energy centers of the body.
And yes, it is true that regular human walking, which any zombie can do, gradually wrecks the human body via relentless repetition of the same brain-dead patterns. What’s cool is how you can almost forego forward walking altogether, except when shopping, and your forward gait will still improve. Backwards training improves forward without even working on forward. Isn’t that cool?
Warrior Walking goes many more steps further, though, because you learn numerous walking patterns that challenge the brain, body and balance while strengthening the whole body. Yes, it does sound far-fetched that doing 10 minutes of the walking patterns I teach will do more for your brain and body than any amount of time going forward, but who am I to argue with science that supports my findings?
The simple truth is that your brain is almost in a coma when you walk forward in heel-to-toe fashion. This is why regular walking will do almost nothing to help people with dementia, cognitive impairment, the blues, and so on.
The back of the brain, more specifically, the cerebellum, is the key, as that’s where 50% of your neurons are. The cerebellum is what gets activated in a huge way when you challenge yourself to do things in reverse, or zig-zag, or when you step like a cat, et cetera.
I appreciate you checking in, Kyle. And as they’d say in Ireland, “tanks a million” for all three of your “thank you’s.”
Matt Furey
By the way, you can click the following links to find the programs mentioned above.
