Do you swing your arms when you walk?

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If I don't have my hands in my pockets, one of them swings, but the other one doesn't.

To go off topic for a second, I finally saw Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show the other day and it was amazing =D

Now they just need to bring it to America =(

I used to not move my upper body and arms at all when walking, but then someone told me that I walked weirdly, so I decided to attempt to consciously swing my arms when walking. This probably makes me look even more odd when I walk, because the rest of my body is completely stiff and still.

I make myself do it as a conscious effort, because I used to get made fun of for not swinging my arms whilst walking back in school. It doesn't feel very natural, and some days I still just put my hands in my pockets because I can't get the sync going. i.e. the arm and leg on the same side will move together rather than alternating forwards and backwards.

I think tomorrow I'm going to town, sit on a bench and watch how many people pass me, swinging their arms...

It's never even occurred to me that people do this a lot...
Especially not to the point where they'd bully other people for not swinging their arms :0


I used to keep my arms tightly folded/crossed when walking... but my mum'd always yell at me:p
She said it looked like I was ill or something and to keep my arms by my side.
I still cross/fold my arms though, when I don't have a sleeve or bag to hold on to.

slightly. it looks weird when people's arms are swinging back and forth and back and forth...it's so hypnotizing.

I never know what to do with my hands. I'll always start thinking "hmm... i need to be doing something with my hands... but what? having them still doesn't seem right, but if i swing them then i might swing them too much and that would look strange. maybe i should put them in my pocket or mess with the side of my shirt?" So i just do whatever i feel like in the time. They'll often be in my pockets, or one in my pocket, or messing with something. If i'm fiddling with something, then i don't have to worry about what to do with them. It's confusing.

So I went, and watched...

I'm amazed... people actually swing their arms... EVERYONE swings their arms:0
It didn't matter where I looked. It's amazing.

I had trouble trying not to laugh

Sometimes they swing but most of the time my hands are in the pockets.

Yeah, any excuse, eh? That's high school for you...

My arms swing at my sides when I am not holding something. I don't walk with my fists clenched. I sometimes walk with my hands in my pockets, but that is about stemming with the items that I have in my pocket.

Several years ago, my Mother noticed that my Dad's arms had stopped swinging at his side as he walked, and they made an appointment with a Neurologist and discovered he had Parkinson's Disease. I am not saying that folks here might have Parkinson's but I am wondering if there is some correlation there.

Last edited by willmark on 23 Jun 2009, 11:50 am, edited 1 time in total.

I do swing my arms if I have nothing on me, I think... if I am wearing my purse on my shoulder, that arm is usually resting on the purse with the hand holding the strap. I love to swing my arms, it feels great. Perhaps I go a bit overboard with this, though? I went to a crowded amusement park and several people got whacked by my hands because they walked too close to me

Nope. I was recognized to have a weird gait since I was a little kid.

^ I had to go to gait therapy when I was little. My walk used to be very, very bizarre.

I don't know if this is interesting or not, but hemi-dystonia is relataed to Parkinsons, just it only gives you the tremor and none of the mental deterioration. I often cross my arms, I hate having them flopped at the side... It's uncomfortable.

when i was little i got into my zone and walked in a demented over the top military type march, crazy arm movements that my mum always told me to stop!
now i generally have my hands in my pockets or by my sides with both index fingers pointing at the ground, or if i'm wearing my backpack i hold the straps up by my chest

No (it's an ASD thingy)