The latest walking trend that could help burn more calories and lower blood pressure
Want to improve your heart health? Try interval walking
- Interval walking, a new fitness trend from Japan, involves alternating between high and low-intensity walking.
- This high-intensity interval training (HIIT) method can burn more calories than normal walking and improve cardiovascular health.
- Interval training may also lower blood pressure, improve heart rate, and reverse age-related muscle loss.
- The method suggests walking at a low intensity for three minutes, then a high intensity for three minutes, and alternating between those intensities for 30 minutes or more.
- Just 9,000 steps a day can lower cancer risk. Adults should aim for at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise weekly.
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