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When Covid hit, I started walking 20k steps a day. It's changed my life
- 1996 6y agoMore evidence is needed, as walking 20k steps will take more time than HIIT for insufficiently proven health benefits.
- anoncake 6y agoYou need evidence that being active is healthy?
- dkdk8283 6y agoI believe the question is around time efficiency not effectiveness. HIIT is proven to reliably increase cardiovascular health with less of a time commitment.
- 1996 6y agoMy time is limited. If 1h of HIIT can give more health benefits than 2h of walking, I may not spend 2h to get a lesser result...
- jeddy3 6y agoMaybe it's not about minimizing time spent, but doing something you enjoy.
- pmiller2 6y agoExactly. No amount of physical activity, regardless of how time efficient it would be, does any good if people don't do it. By making it enjoyable (e.g. walking with a dog), that makes it more likely one is going to do the activity. It doesn't matter if you can get the benefits of 2.5 hours of walking by doing 15-30 minutes of HIIT if one simply doesn't like HIIT.
- djmips 6y agoThis what I was wondering too. 20k steps might take around 2.5 hours every day which is a lot.
- rurban 6y agoWhen Covid hit, I stopped doing regular sports, because everything shut down, even tabletennis, which is an individual sport and safe. So I gained 10 kilo, and it's not getting better because now I have to do my own cooking, which tastes so much better than the previous food I just got somewhere. It changed my life, and my table tennis is getting worse and worse. I won't be able to go pro for sure.
- phendrenad2 6y agoIn other words, about 10 miles, or 16km. With conditioning, you could probably do that in 2-3 hours.