“you’ve gotta learn to crawl before you learn to walk…”
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(most babies learn to crawl between the ages of 7 months and 10 months)
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(an average human child achieves ‘independent walking ability; at around ’11 months old’*)
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Your baby may opt for another method of locomotion around this time, though – like bottom shuffling (scooting around on her bottom, using a hand behind and a foot in front to propel herself), slithering on her stomach, or rolling across the room.
Most babies first pull themselves up to a standing position between about eight months and 10 months. At this stage your baby will need to hang on to you or a solid piece of furniture. By 11 months she may be able to stand on her own. Standing usually comes after crawling.
(bike?)
(reading?)
(i am often forced to walk)
(with no car)
(no bike)
(no money for public transportation)
(i often think of my best song lyrics while walking)
(as arv watched a documentary on those who walk for the clarity it provides)
(“walking” (also known as ambulation) is one of the main gaits of locomotion among legged animals, and is typically slower than running and other gaits)
(walking is defined by an ‘inverted pendulum’ gait in which the body vaults over the stiff limb or limbs with each step)
(this applies regardless of the number of limbs – even arthropods, with six, eight or more limbs, walk)
(the preferred walking speed is the speed at which humans or animals choose to walk)
(many people tend to walk at about 1.4 m/s (5.0 km/h; 3.1 mph))
(“google maps” assumes walking speed of ~2.76mph)
(assume that it takes 20 minutes to walk a mile)
Although many people are capable of walking at speeds upwards of 2.5 m/s (9.0 km/h; 5.6 mph), especially for short distances, they typically choose not to. Individuals find slower or faster speeds uncomfortable.
Horses have also demonstrated normal, narrow distributions of preferred walking speed within a given gait, which suggests that the process of speed selection may follow similar patterns across species.
Preferred walking speed has important clinical applications as an indicator of mobility and independence. For example, elderly people or people suffering from osteoarthritis must walk more slowly. Improving (increasing) people’s preferred walking speed is a significant clinical goal in these populations.
People have suggested mechanical, energetic, physiological and psychological factors as contributors to speed selection. Probably, individuals face a trade-off between the numerous costs associated with different walking speeds, and select a speed which minimizes these costs. For example, they may trade off time to destination, which is minimized at fast walking speeds, and metabolic rate, muscle force or joint stress.
These are minimized at slower walking speeds.
(broadly, increasing value of ‘time’, ‘motivation’, or ‘metabolic efficiency’ may cause people to walk more ‘quickly’)
(conversely, ‘aging’, joint pain, instability, incline, metabolic rate and visual decline cause people to walk more ‘slowly’)
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