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Why don't humans walk like THAT?
Why don't humans walk like THAT?
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- Why don't people walk like this?
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And instead, we have our arms swing with the opposite leg.
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I mean, why do we move our arms at all,
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using all that extra energy
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instead of just letting our legs do it on their own?
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Initially, some scientists thought
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that we just inherited this way
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of walking from our ancestors who walked on four limbs.
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But quadripeds actually swing their limbs
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in a lot of different ways.
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They can lift just one limb off the ground
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if they're walking slowly.
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Horses will have diagonal pairs swing together,
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and camels often move their same side limbs together
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and cheetahs go so fast sometimes none of their limbs
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are touching the ground.
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And for us, it seems like arm swinging
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might be one of our secrets for becoming the two-legged ape.
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When your leg does this,
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your upper body slightly rotates this way,
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so swinging your arm the other way,
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even slightly, counteracts that rotational push on your body
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and a twisting force on your foot.
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And this changes according to how fast you're walking,
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of course.
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When you stroll,
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your arms don't always need to stay in sync
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because the rotational forces aren't very big.
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But when you move faster, your arms want to sync up
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to counteract that stronger rotation.
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Now, this is a small energy benefit,
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but it can really add up.
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Weirdly, it seems like it actually takes our body
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less energy to swing our arms, not more.
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When we're going slow, our arms counteract the forces
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by just swinging free like pendulums.
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So not much effort there.
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But some scientists found that when we go fast,
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we actually use 12% less energy when we swing our arms
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versus holding them still
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because the arm swinging keeps us from wasting energy
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on balance and uses it to propel us forward instead.
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And according to that experiment,
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when people run like an idiot like me,
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they consumed about 25% more energy.
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Now this is why race walkers look like this
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and not like this.
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Why don't humans walk like THAT? - Video học tiếng Anh
