gatorbait
Level 5 Valued Member
Due to the nature of my training environment for the forseeable future (rocks, rocks and more rocks), I am using tactical knee pads when baby crawling and cannot crawl dragging the tops of my feet across the ground. (I am working toward more advanced crawling where my knees will be off the ground and this will not be an issue, but for now...) When loading baby crawling as described above with weight and/or time would there be any detriment from using the knee pads? And I noticed the hamstrings got a lot of extra attention from crawling with the ball of my foot down as one would in leopard or spiderman crawling. But the little bit of spiderman/ and leopard crawling I have done, the effort seems a lot more quad dominated. Is it ok that hamstrings seem to dominate this movement? I am just curious if its just a matter of "good, better, best" as described in OS Perfromance or if either of these two issues would have a negative effect on my body or gait patterns. Thanks.