Walking: Ball of Foot

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Actually, I walk on the sides of my feet more, as my ankles are weak. I used to toe or ball walk more, but my mom told me to use the heels as a starting point. This did not feel right, so then I used the sides. Doing this might have prevented fallen arches, but I believe also set me up for the state of my now mutilated feet.

I also walk on the sides of my feet but walk on the ball of my feet when going up stairs and sometimes loose my balance.

I recently purposefully started to walk on the balls of my feet rather than heals which is the norm for me.

I had read that ball of foot walking is a less efficient gait for animals.. I decided to change the way I walk, which I don't always find easy, to counter my tendency to in step and I feel it corrects my general posture!

I've just walked a few steps to see. I generally place the whole foot down, and only put my weight onto the ball and toes of the foot as I'm lifting it. I believe this is a fairly normal way of walking...

Wearing shoes I place my feet fairly the normal way, except that I walk more softly and quietly than others (I tend to freak out people with this). Up the stairs I always step on my toes, mostly by double. Down the stairs I use only my toes similarly. My arch is so elevated that I rarely leave watermark of it on the pavement when wet. At home, bare-feet I tend to toe-walk, especially when I suddenly feel excited about something (or nothing at all). Sometimes I run back an forth the apartment leaping on my toes. Quite childish...

When I sit, I tend to hold my heels up above the ground for quite long.

You should land on the ball of your foot when running, less risk of injury that way.

I occasionally step on my heel when walking on level ground, but the rest of the time it's the ball.

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I always preferred walking on the ball of my foot. I'll either walk just on the ball, or I will place both the ball and the heel down at the same time, or just on the sides of my feet.

Putting weight on the heel in a step is jarring and painful, as well as it hurts me knees when I do it too much, so when I run I run on the balls of my feet.

Does/Has anyone else noticed a clicking sound/feeling in their head when they run by landing on their heels? Or was that just me since I had bad posture for a while?

I can't stand walking on my heels when on carpets. Or even standing on them, really.

My parents tried to get me to walk on my heels so I started to stamp the whole foot down. I've tried to start with my heel but it feels weird and I have to concentrate really hard to make sure I don't fall back into habit.

Mostly I walk on the balls of my feet.

That doesn't even seem possible to me. How can you walk on the ball of your foot? Stepping on the ball first and then transferring your weight over to your heel breaks the circular motion of your whole leg, it seems incredibly unnatural and inefficient. I do have an odd gait, but that's more related to most of the weight being put around the outsides of my feet.

I've observed that I use the balls of my feet when climbing the stairs (Can't use balls of my feet when coming downstairs I trip a lot that way ) or walking on cold surfaces. I also jump on the balls of my feet . I sort of feel that I can jump higher than most people my height (because of which my school basketball team used me as a dunker though I am not very tall).

I tend to walk on the balls of my feet when I'm barefoot, my mom used to always try to get me to stop. I think I walk more heal-toe in shoes except when running. When running my left foot always ends up contacting my right ankle and by the end of a couple miles my ankle is bleeding... never notice that I'm doing this until after I'm doing running though (unless I think about it).

I walk on the balls of my feet sometimes. When I first learned to walk, I constantly walked on the balls of my feet, enough that in my right foot the achilles tendon is too short.

When I walk on the balls of my feet in sneakers on a hard floor, my feet tend to get caught up and I trip.

I run on the balls of my feet because running and landing on my heel is amazingly painful - always has been.

I walk heel to toe but I do walk on the outside edges of my feet. Most people walk on the inside edges of their feet. Just look at where your callouses are... I blame that on my clumsiness and random losses of balance (even though tinnitus might also have some implication now).

i have always walked on the front halves of my feet, it just feels more natural, animalistic to me. i do it around the house in my socks. plus, i grew up in an atmosphere where i felt i had to be really quiet, so this tiptoeing helped. i am so good at hardly transferring weight, i could run and no one would hear me.
my mother however, has this annoying way of stomping her feet heel-first on the ground that ALWAYS sounds loud and angry to me. i guess she didn't have to grow up being quiet.