Walk Your Way Inefficiently to Health
WALKING INEFFICIENTLY FOR JUST A FEW MINUTES DAILY may help you to achieve your physical activity goals, according to a recent British Medical Journal article.
I should have titled this piece “Walk Teabag Style to Gain Health,” but that might have been a bit over the top. Or perhaps not, as the title of the article, we’ll review today is “Quantifying the Benefits of Inefficient Walking: Monty Python Inspired Laboratory Based Experimental Study.”
Let’s look at the Monty Python “silly walk:”
You now have some context for our topic today, the inefficient walking styles of Mr. Teabag and Mr. Putey (acted by John Cleese and Michael Palin) in the 1971 Monty Python Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.
Walking “Teabag” style
We begin with this weird research thought: Mr. Teabag’s and Mr. Putey’s inefficient walking styles are more variable than typical walking, but their energy expenditure has never been measured.
