I got this from the study:
Together, these results showed that home‐based walking exercise at a pace that does not induce ischemic leg symptoms was significantly worse than walking exercise that induces ischemic leg symptoms for outcomes of walking speed and the SPPB. Results also showed that walking for exercise at a pace without ischemic leg symptoms was significantly worse than the control group for the outcome of usual‐paced walking velocity at 12‐month follow‐up.
It appears not pushing into pain causes a steady walking speed decline after just 12 months (seemingly due to normal walkers receiving pain at their prior speeds).
True, but I guess what I’m not getting is, well, I guess walking faster would help with health overall regardless of pain, but the average is just like 13 feet per second faster, which if a person walked exactly 10 minutes, woild be just an extra 130 feet, or roughly only 40,extra yards of walking. Doesn’t seem like a huge benefit over walking without having to experience the pain.
I’m progably missing something- maybe it’s accumulative where 40,yards per day, over 10 days, that would be 400 yards extra, 100,days, 4000 and so on.
The pain is excruciating, and I’m not sure the benefit of an extra 40 yards per walk (per 10 minute walk that is), would warrant the extra pain of pushing the body to pain. I’ve tried walking through the pain, and it gets so bad it’s, ike walking on two wooden legs as the calf muscles tighten up, won’t relax, and thr burnin lactic acid like pain sets in and won’t quit till one stops.
I dunno, maybe every little extra bit, like the extra 40 yards helps overall health. I just know He pain it causes, and know how debilitating it is. I can actually walk further if I don’t walk fast enough to cause the burning pain in legs. So to,me the gain of 40 yards vs walking further without pain might offset each other benefit wise?