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Summary: Learn the backwards step for exercising on a treadmill from a workout professional in this free health and fitness video.
Rotem Agame is an exercise physiologist, aquatic therapist, and a former professional swimmer; she has participated in the finals of the European swimming championship. She was also...read more
"Another thing that you can incorporate in in your warm up or even as part of your workout is walking in different directions on the treadmill. Now it's important to make sure that you're trying it after a while, after you feel comfortable enough on the treadmill. You might even try to attach the emergency cable when you're trying it first. Now another important thing is to slowly increase the speed. If you're trying to walk at the speed that you're walking forward that work may be really hard for you. So really work slowly on it and increase the speed really, really slow until you feel comfortable enough so you're not going to fall down. So I'm going to start it here again and I'm putting the speed on 1.3. Now I'm holding the treadmill like that and I'm starting to turn around. Now you see in the beginning you can hold on the sides of the treadmill when trying it so you are not going to loose your balance on the machine. Now after you feel comfortable enough you can lose it and make sure you incorporate your hands. Now all the time make sure that you're not taking your back backwards because otherwise you will fall down if you try to do that. So make sure you are even leaning a little bit forward when doing it. Now it's a great way to work on different muscles on your leg and to work on your glutes area."