There’s a saying: “Go backwards to spring forward.” I never really got it until I started literally walking backwards. It all clicked when I was recovering from eye surgery and looking for ways to ...

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Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. Haupt is a health and wellness editor at TIME. I’ve spent my whole life happily walking in one direction: forward. It was, I believed, the only way to go ...

It goes by many names, such as retropedalling, retro walking, retro motion and reverse walking. Whatever you call it, backward walking is a world health trend that has been linked to a surprising ...

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How many steps have you taken today? For many people, walking is one of the easiest, low-impact forms of exercise. Every step can help increase one’s metabolism and, for some of us, help decrease our ...

Walking has been embraced as an affordable, accessible and effective form of exercise that everyone can benefit from. You likely only think of moving forward when heading out for a walk, but what if I ...