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Quantifying the benefits of inefficient walking [pdf]
- jillesvangurp 4y agoMonty Python inspired laboratory based experimental study
- pxeger1 4y agoThis is presumably the BMJ's annual silly article
- walnutclosefarm 4y agoIgnoble Prize candidate, for sure.
- lynguist 4y agoSee also: The famous 1999 Christmas paper on MR imaging of a coitus. (Which won an Ignobel prize.) https://youtu.be/OVAdCKaU3vY https://youtu.be/OVAdCKaU3vY
- bobsmooth 4y ago>Conclusions: For adults with no known gait disorder who average approximately 5000 steps/day, exchanging about 22%-34% of their daily steps with higher energy, low efficiency walking in Teabag style—requiring around 12-19 min—could increase daily EE by 100 kcal. I love science.
- Arrath 4y agoThe "teabag walk" as presented here is not what online shooters have brought me to believe it is.
- smcin 4y agoWell there's a phrase that's definitely been lost to a new generation... ;-)
- bitwize 4y agoI was going to comment "This research was commissioned by the Ministry of Silly Walks", but Monty Python and that sketch are specifically mentioned in the paper as inspiration! I have a slightly silly walk I use. I call it the ASIMO walk. It's a deliberate walk with the knees very slightly bent in the manner of an ASIMO robot, with an eye to taking the load off my knee joints (which bear the brunt of it if I lock out as normal) and strengthening the stabilizer muscles around my knees, to better preserve the joints as I age. Recovery from knee replacement is a stone cold bitch and I'd rather not endure that if I can avoid it.
- smcin 4y agoThat's interesting, my friend with hip (and maybe knee) transplants walks like that, not straightening the joints fully.
- bitwize 4y agoHe may have been advised to do so by his PT to prolong the lives of his joints and to strengthen his muscles during recovery. Artificial hips and knees are durable but they don't last forever and are subject to wear.
- cs702 4y ago"And now for something completely different:" Picture a group of people attending "Silly Walks" classes to get in better shape.
- eternalban 4y agoYou mean like Tai Chi? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Tai_Chi1.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Tai_Chi1... https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-7014 https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-7014
- cs702 4y agoYes, but much sillier. It takes a lot more effort to walk with a silly walk as silly as John Cleese's. It's like a real workout! ;-)
- notlukesky 4y agoThe silly walk is a pure crazy workout. They were in so many ridiculous things against ahead of the curve. It always amuses me how many of their absurd skits turned into reality.
- sph 4y agoSome crazy HN reader is going to get in decent shape with a strict potato diet and silly-walking to work every day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32058674 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32058674
- sph 4y ago> Adults could achieve 75 minutes of vigorous intensity physical activity per week by walking inefficiently for about 11 min/day Ha, not so silly now, is it?
- D-Coder 4y agoThis story has also hit Ars Technica and the Washington Post (at least).
- lisper 4y agoThis isn't April 1, so: I'm sorry, but this is just ... silly. Our normal walking gait evolved to be efficient for our anatomy. Of course any variation is going to be less efficient and therefore better exercise. The whole point of exercise is to move inefficiently so that your muscles have to work harder in a given span of time than they otherwise would. There is nothing special about silly walks in this regard. You can be inefficient without being silly, it's just hard to be silly without being inefficient.