AIBU to ask have you seen any wobbly walkers?

[FinallyRelief]

This was inspired by couch to 5k and I wondered in lockdown where I've seen lots more people doing different exercises I've not seen any wobbly walkers!

Have you?

So I mean like growing up I often saw people kind of arms tucked in - walking very fast but not running so it was still a sport but like a fast walking sport almost a run but not! Wobbly walkers! Not seen any for years.

@groovergirl

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Here you go, darls -- going for the hip flexor burn, Kath & Kim style!

😂 love it!

Is it more popular in Australia!? Harold Bishop springs to mind !!

I definitely go for a jog not a run ! 5k at a gentle pace . Don’t have any fancy kit. Listening to my banging playlist 😄🙌 Jogger & proud!

Jennifer Aniston made power walking famous in the early 2000s. I remember my dad doing it

@TweeterandtheMonkeyman Yes. I was going to say that Madge and Harold on Neighbours used to do it.

@MrsEricBana

Ah yes, Nordic walking is a thing here too (there's a big group that clacks past me on the common and my neighbour's husband does it too).

Nordic walking is great! I do it with a group, we don't go too fast so we can't talk but it is certainly faster than my normal walking pace, and I walk quite briskly. You can do lots of exercises and challenges to make it tougher - there is a nearby group rumoured to pull car tyres (!) but we just walk.

It's great, you are using your arms and upper body, and what I find good is that even if you are walking on a slope or uneven flat ground you feel supported as I do have a fear of falling over and breaking a hip, or just looking like a stranded orca sprawled on the ground.

I run but have stumpy little legs so everyone else calls it jogging, even though I'm going as fast as I reasonably can! I wish I could lengthen my stride, but I'd fall over, especially as there's usually a dog towing me along.

Maybe I should speed walk instead.

"What I've noticed is that no one goes jogging any more. Everyone goes running instead"

I can assure you that I go jogging. It would be ludicrous to call what I do running.

You mean like this?

(Link to comedian Laura Clery and her Pamerwalk)

😂😂

We used to be on the training circuit for our local race walking club. We called them Wiggle Bummers!

@groovergirl has it that's the walking I mean!!

Malcolm in the Middle - Hal power walking
You're welcome!

Is it more popular in Australia!? Harold Bishop springs to mind !!

Ha! I have never seen anyone race-walk in Australia, outside the Commonwealth Games. I live in suburban Melbourne, whence come Neighbours and Kath & Kim. People run, jog, cycle, skate, kick footies, do interval training and circuits, but wobbly walking? Never, apart from schoolkids taking the piss after seeing it on TV!

I saw someone walking backwards along the front at Leasowe a few weeks back. All dressed up in athletics gear and going for it. No idea what that was about.

I see runners going for it like their life depends on it or they’re being chased by a dinosaur but no joggers. There is one lady who does speed walking and the transformation in her size and shape is quite brilliant. So if I could I think I’d go for power walking. Don’t think these arthritic knees could take full in I’ve-got- to-be-faster-than-everyone-else running 🤔

Didn't race walking used to be an actual thing at the Olympics? Or maybe Commonwealth Games?

Yep, my GP's wife does (or did) it, amongst other things.

I have a friend who used to run, but had to stop because of a hip problem. She racewalks now. She is phenomenally fast and can walk parkrun much quicker than most of the slowest runners, including me. I suppose I'm a runner, but I wouldn't argue with the jogger label.

I’m a wobbly walker 😊

Is it more popular in Australia!? Harold Bishop springs to mind !!

Ha! I have never seen anyone race-walk in Australia,

What? Are you telling us that Neighbours was not an accurate portrayal of Australian life?
That's a shocker.

Wasn’t it Nordic walking that Harold did? With sticks.

That takes me back Madge and Harold Bishop!

There is one lady who does speed walking and the transformation in her size and shape is quite brilliant.

Tell us more, @RedOasis. I've been slobbing out and need some inspiration! Walking really does make a good physique. I used to brisk-walk to and from work (when work was in a city office), with beautiful benefits to my waistline and my mental health.