Posted on 08/08/2025 4:19:56 AM PDT by dennisw
Japanese walking is becoming the latest fitness craze - taking over trendy workouts like Pilates, yoga and spin classes.
The exercise consists of bursts of slow and fast walking which increases your heart rate. Also known as the '3-3 walking workout', you walk with intensity for three minutes, then slow down for the next three.
This is repeated five times, totalling 30 minutes.
It was developed by Professor Hiroshi Nose and Associate Professor Shizue Masuki at Shinshu University in Matsumoto, Japan, to help elderly people get the health benefits experienced by athletes undertaking high-intensity interval training.
The three minute benchmark is when the researchers found most of the older citizens tended to get tired.
It is advised to take longer strides in the fast intervals while bending the elbows and swinging he arms to help maintain the correct form.
Participants of the study found that those walking at varying speeds experienced a host of healthbeneits, including weight loss and lower blood pressure. Thigh strength and physical fitness also improved.
A later 2018 study by the same researchers found that over a ten-year period, those who did interval walking reported greater to age-related injuries and illnesses.
The Japanese walking method has also been hailed for helping to regulate blood pressure and boost your VO2 max - a numeric measure of your aerobic capacity which reflects how well your heart, lungs, and muscles work together to deliver and use oxygen for physical activity.
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This makes sense. This is a low key version of HIIT.
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“High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is a form of cardiovascular exercise that alternates short bursts of intense activity with brief recovery periods.”
It’s basically how you’re supposed to train as a runner. You start off alternating between 1-1 minutes and then build up to 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, etc.
For most and especially seniors walking is the best exercise, a slight variation on this one.
I do that. I started it because I was only good for three minutes of power-walking at a time.
A weighted vest can help too. Even an 8-10lb one as seen on Amazon.
“ A later 2018 study by the same researchers found that over a ten-year period, those who did interval walking reported greater to age-related injuries and illnesses.” so, those who do this “interval” walking experienced “greater “ or more injuries and illnesses? So the Japanese interval walking is not what they are talking about at this point in the write up ?
Or get out your kitty carrier backpack, and take your cat with you! 😺
They should install wasp nests every 1000 yards along hiking trails.
That’ll do it.
I have a vest that I wear while fishing. When I start out, it’s weighted down with a six-pack.
I follow the Susanna Hoffs method....walk like an Egyptian.
I carry about 10-12 pounds of water, camera gear, food, pocket knife, whistle, Garmin, blister aid, and hiking poles. I usually get 400-600 feet of hill work in, but go to 1,200 feet now and then.
But I’m not consistent enough.
Pick an exercise you like...if you don’t, you won’t stick with it.....trust me.
(Japanese walking)
Comedian Jerry Seinfeld practices
Japanese Waking by taking an ax 🪓
to Cosmo Kramer’s Bed and Breakfast 🥞🍳
Again with the oranges? 🍊🍊🍊🍊🍊
I think we see this same article every six months for the last ten years. What the heck…?
Japanese walking. Walking Like an Egyptian is so 80’s
That’s a helluva big whistle.
You should see how far the sound carries!
So is anything some American academic makes up “American” whatever?
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