Want to be safe during the cold winter storms this year? Walk like a penguin while on the ice.
I know that probably wasn’t what you were expecting to read today, but I wasn’t expecting to slip and fall on the icy sidewalk in front of my crush in my sophomore year of high school, so here we are.
Ohio State University , Iowa State University and others have reported that the safest way to get to where you need to go even in the iciest of conditions is to walk like a penguin.
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How do you walk like a penguin on ice?
Changing your typical stride used in non-icy conditions is key to being able to walk like a penguin.
“It’s called penguin walking because you do kind of look like a penguin while you’re doing this type of walk,” Monica Leach, a physical therapist and board-certified clinical specialist in geriatric physical therapy at the Cleveland Clinic, said .
OSF HealthCare reported that the technique to walk like a penguin includes the following: