Walking in a “stupid” way for 11 minutes a day would have beneficial effects on the body, according to a new scientific study.

Ridicule does not kill, quite the contrary. This is, in a way, the conclusion of a recent study published in the British Medical Journal and broadcast by the Sun. According to her, walking in a “stupid” way every day would have beneficial effects on the body. Specifically, exaggerated strides like those in the famous Monty Python sketch (video below, if you don’t have the reference) would make us burn more calories, improve physical fitness and reduce the risk of dying young.

To reach this conclusion, the researchers recruited 13 healthy adults, ages 22 to 71, with no history of heart or lung disease and no known gait disorder. They engaged in three types of walking, but only one resulted in significantly higher energy expenditure than usual walking. Called “Teabag”, it consists of advancing with slightly bent legs, interspersed with high kicks and backward jumps.

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“A Powerful Way to Improve Fitness”

“The play may have unknowingly touched on a powerful way to improve fitness,” explained the author of the study, Professor Glenn Gaesser, from the University of Arizona in the United States, while specifying that this activity should be carried out for 11 minutes a day to reduce the risk of death by 10%.

Despite multiple widespread campaigns to improve fitness and encourage people to move more, global inactivity rates have not changed in the last 20 years. As the government points out in its websiteYou should aim to gradually work up to at least 30 minutes of moderate to high-intensity physical activity per day.

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