Bad Walking Habits You Should Stop Immediately, Say Walking Experts Bad Walking Habits You Should Stop Immediately, Say Walking Experts Fun fact: There's no such thing as a "perfect" walker, as our gaits never follow a robot-like consistency. One study, conducted by the Movement Lab at Ohio State University and published in the Biology Letters, found that for every step we take, our bodies continually work to correct errors in our kinetic chains. If we tip forward in one direction, for instance, our steps will correct by moving farther in that direction. "We are constantly making little corrections to be stable," observed one graduate student who worked on the study.