Dear LPG readers,

I wonder if I am the only pensioner who leaves the house, looks down at the end of the road and sees a long, arduous walk ahead of me.   

I have lived in the same house for over thirty years and remember having no problem with trips to the shops when I first moved in. In those days, I thought nothing of walking down to the station in preparation for the commute to work, and I was not even phased by mornings when I had to step up my pace a bit more than usual because I had left home a couple of minutes late. 

It is funny how, after a few years, having less resolve to get to your destination as quickly changes the way you walk. The other aspect of how we do it must be how those legs feel when you have a go.   

Most people don’t give it a second thought; it is just a by-product of getting from here to there, with our subconscious kicking in every time we take a step. However, as we get older, the aches and pains that develop will change how we do it without our even realising it.   

Let’s face it: We learn about this activity before we have any sense of science. For so many of us, it is second nature, and if you ask about the intricacies of getting it right, most people will tell you that all you have to do is put one foot in front of the other. But, like everything else these days, the concept has been studied, and there is a lot more to it than you might think.  

I decided to see what the Internet had to say about this, one of the most fundamental actions we take, and there is a lot more information out there than I ever imagined.  

Having read it, I admit to giving a lot more thought to what I am doing when I get up and go and having learned so much; I felt it only right to pass on some of the knowledge to everyone at LPG in the hope that just for a short while we might all focus a little more on the way we do it, and incorporate a few of the principles that might make it a little less wearing on our bodies… 

KC, Orpington 

KC explains the knowledge he feels we should send from our brains to our legs…

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