My Journey With Weight Loss – Walking Asymmetry

Oops, I completely forgot to post on Tuesday. In my defence I had electricians in wiring up our new hot tub. Since we had ordered the hot tub 14 months ago I was so excited that we would actually finally get it set up that everything else went out of my head.

My sore toe is slowly recovering but it is trying my patience. I have to keep reminding myself that letting it fully heal will get me back to training again but seriously, just a 5 km run would make me happy. However, I will wait so that I can get back to training safely.

One of the things I have been really watching is my walking asymmetry. This is a measure of how long you spend on each foot when walking. A higher number can indicate an injury as it will show that you are limping. Even with the sore toe my numbers have been pretty low. This week every walk on the treadmill my percentage asymmetry has been 0 (so perfect). It does go up a bit when I walk the dog but that is probably caused by all the sudden stops so that the dog can sniff every other blade of grass. Even then I’m talking asymmetry of 0.4-0.6 % so really, just off perfect. To me what this means is I am walking properly while I heal.

Bottom line is this is just another tool I use to help me listen to my body.