The text discusses how load-bearing impacts body posture and movement, particularly focusing on the hips and shoulders. Heavier loads cause the hip to sway more, providing less support to the shoulder and influencing how one steps. The balancing act while walking or working with a load is critical to maintaining stability and control.
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Observation about the carrying figures marked with E, more turned to the side; nonetheless, this does not prevent one from clearly seeing that here the left hip is swaying out, and that the fist or reversed hand upon it, at this moment, has more support than when it is bent in like the right.
And since a load-carrying person has a greater tendency to sway the hip more than an unloaded walker, therefore, it happens that a heavily loaded person steps or treads, the hip leans towards the unloaded side, bends slightly, or bows differently, than when stepping on the foot of the loaded side.
The reason appears to be that the hip sinks in, offering less support to the shoulder; Since the arm on that side cannot so easily be set; And therefore finds its assistance with a little of its weight to send more onto the foot that has been set down, although in the following step it does so.
One sees in some workers that in the carrying or bearing, some involve more than usual weight in their movements.
When a person goes strongly or walks very quickly, they carefully balance on the foot that supports them as well in an easy step. Because whenever they venture forward beyond their line of balance, it leads or by the air,