Has anyone tried Japanese Walking?

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I keep seeing Japanese Walking being recommended. It's interval walking, you do 3 min fast and then 3 min slow for 30 min. Supposedly it is better for you than getting 10,000 steps per day. If true that would be a lot less time spent walking! Has anyone tried it?

I think possibly I have?

Basically, after a spinal injury, I had to find something I could do and build up before going back to the gym (which I’m afraid I never did, although I’m thinking about it again). So for awhile after I got used to just walking outside, I did interval walks because I did originally plan to go back to the gym and be on the cardio machines.

I can’t see how it would help you lose weight unless you were very sedentary in the first place. But I have to walk everywhere as I can no longer drive and I can’t say that that’s been helpful for losing weight

I have lost some weight, there’s a lot more to go. But it’s all about diet, unfortunately. In really busy periods where I clock up more steps or more exercise, it doesn’t have any effect on my weight.

By all means go ahead and do it because it’s healthy, I’m not knocking exercise, I just find walking isn’t up to much