Scientists have evaluated the benefits in achieving daily physical activity goals generated by walking less efficiently – yes, that’s right you read it.
As curious as it may seem, walking in unusual, more elaborate and difficult ways, that is, with less efficiency, it can help you stay in shape if you practice a little bit every day??
Published in the scientific journal BMJthe study shows that physical activity rates have not changed in the last 20 years, even with campaigns showing benefits for cardiovascular and body health in adults.
Thinking about efficiency, an idea came up: what if they tried to reproduce unusual floors? Investigators immediately remembered the Ministry of the Goofy WalkO sketch british group humor Monty Python, 1971, and tried to reproduce the ways of walking in the laboratory.
The Ministry of Effective Testing
To check the energy expenditure of each way of walking, the scientists observed 13 healthy adults – six women and seven men aged 22 to 71 years, average of 34 – with no history of lung or heart disease and no known problems that affected walking.
The height and weight of the participants was also measured, and, finally, everyone attended the Ministry of Palermas Floors before starting the tests, which lasted five minutes each, in an internal circuit of 30 meters.
First, the volunteers walked normally, as they always did, at the pace they wanted. In the next two tests, they had to reproduce as best they could the floors of the Mr. Teabag It’s from Mr. puteycharacters from sketch??
The distance covered during the five minutes was used to calculate average speed, oxygen uptake and energy expenditure. The intensity of the exercises in METs was also evaluated, that is, the amount of calories spent per minute of physical activity.
Just the floor of Mr. Teabag showed significantly greater energy expenditure, about 2.5 times that of a normal floor?? Combining the data for both sexes, oxygen inhalation on a normal floor was 11.3 mL/kg/min, or 3.2 METs, very close to Mr. Putey, which generated 12.3 mL/kg/min, or 3.5 METs?? The Teabag floor, the most famous, generated 27.9 mL/kg/min, or 8 METsalready qualifying as vigorous physical exercise.
Swapping just one minute of normal walking for Teabag walking already increases energy expenditure by eight kcal/min for men and five kcal/min for women??
If you switch from your regular walk to the Teabag for 11 minutes a day, that’s 75 minutes of vigorous exercise a week — do the same for 12 to 19 minutes a day increase your energy expenditure by about 100 kcal.
