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Is Walking Exercise?
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This week's episode is a little in house debate. We got the MOPs & MOEs team together to hash out a sticky topic: Is walking exercise?
We certainly get into more nuance on than that. Is walking EFFICIENT exercise? WHO is walking appropriate exercise for? What does research say about various walking PROTOCOLS? There are layers to this conversation, and we peel several of those layers back.
If you want to dive into some of the research we mention that assessed Interval Walk Training, here are a few of the papers you can look up:
Nemoto et al, 2007
Nose et al, 2009
Morikawa et al, 2011
Karstoft et al, 2013
Jakobsen et al, 2016
Kitajima et al, 2023