{"id":115704,"date":"2024-10-18T21:45:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115704"},"modified":"2024-10-18T21:45:18","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:45:18","slug":"walking-with-breaks-might-use-more-energy-but-dogs-cant-stand-it-fitness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115704","title":{"rendered":"Walking with breaks might use more energy, but dogs can\u2019t stand it | Fitness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-11uwh1i\"><span style=\"color:var(--drop-cap);font-weight:700;\" class=\"dcr-15rw6c2\">L<\/span>et me start by saying that I am not looking for ways to be more tired. I\u2019m tired enough. However, a study suggesting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2024\/oct\/16\/strolls-with-stops-use-more-energy-than-continuous-walking-scientists-show\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">exercise punctuated by frequent breaks requires more energy<\/a> than \u201csteady-state\u201d exertion has a certain counterintuitive attraction: I can exercise better by resting more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-11uwh1i\">The results of the study, <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rspb.2024.1220\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/a>, are striking. Volunteers on treadmills and stair climbers used 20-60% more oxygen when walking in bursts of 10-30 seconds than they did covering the same distance without stopping. This apparently has something to do with the sheer inefficiency of stop-start activity. \u201cWe found that when starting from rest, a significant amount of oxygen is consumed to start walking,\u201d said the study\u2019s author, Francesco Luciano. \u201cWe incur this cost regardless of whether we then walk for 10 or 30 seconds, so it proportionally weighs more for shorter rather than longer bouts.\u201d Would this strategy, I wondered, work for me?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-11uwh1i\">I began my investigation with an everyday journey: a walk to the nearest post office, just over half a mile away. On the way there, I walked at a brisk, unbroken pace, but on the return journey I covered the same distance in bursts of 30 seconds, with rests in between. Or at least I tried to \u2013 even at a near jog, 30 seconds doesn\u2019t take you very far. It\u2019s about 75 steps, which won\u2019t get you from corner to corner, or from one park bench to the next.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"e2aeed5b-4321-41ea-a712-3aff57e639a4\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1fujct4\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Tim Dowling and Jean take a rest.<\/span> Photograph: David Levene\/The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-11uwh1i\">And it looks stupid: you\u2019re never far enough from your previous rest spot to have a plausible reason for stopping again. You can halt mid-stride to read an email, but not every 75 steps. You can pretend your shoe is untied, but not more than once or twice. On my walk home, the people I overtook kept overtaking me, while I kept pausing as if I\u2019d forgotten something, and then realising I hadn\u2019t, all the way across the park. You can\u2019t help but arouse suspicion. The outbound journey took 12 minutes; the return, more than half an hour. I don\u2019t know which came at a greater metabolic cost, but I know which one I preferred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-11uwh1i\">I\u2019ll tell you who really isn\u2019t keen on this approach to exercise: dogs. My afternoon study only had a sample of one animal, but the findings were clear: a dog simply will not tolerate a rest break every 30 seconds, much less every 10. As I sat on the first bench, the dog looked at me with a certain wary concern, as if I might be experiencing a cardiac event. Thereafter it just strained at the end of the lead, trying to pull me into a standing position.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-11uwh1i\">\u201cWe\u2019re actually using more energy this way,\u201d I said. The dog whined. There is a lot a dog doesn\u2019t understand \u2013 for example, why it can\u2019t take home a surgical glove it found in a hedge \u2013 but continual, unexplained halting is, from its point of view, a punishment, plain and simple.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"bdf11df6-9e9d-4913-9d85-7207cec85bac\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\"><figcaption data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" class=\"dcr-1fujct4\"><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><svg width=\"18\" height=\"13\" viewbox=\"0 0 18 13\"><path d=\"M18 3.5v8l-1.5 1.5h-15l-1.5-1.5v-8l1.5-1.5h3.5l2-2h4l2 2h3.5l1.5 1.5zm-9 7.5c1.9 0 3.5-1.6 3.5-3.5s-1.6-3.5-3.5-3.5-3.5 1.6-3.5 3.5 1.6 3.5 3.5 3.5z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Jean the dog loses patience with the break method.<\/span> Photograph: David Levene\/The Guardian<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-11uwh1i\">If this study serves a rebuke to the sort of people who jog in place while waiting at a level crossing \u2013 you\u2019d be better off standing there with your arms folded, like the rest of us \u2013 it\u2019s also a vote of confidence for anyone who counts leaping up from the sofa to answer the door as circuit training. There is clearly value in bursts of exercise of even the shortest duration, but enforced inefficiency is a little heartbreaking. It\u2019s like being terrible at skipping a rope \u2013 you obviously get more exercise than someone who is good at it, but you don\u2019t feel better about yourself when you\u2019re done.<\/p>\n<figure data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.NewsletterSignupBlockElement\" class=\" dcr-173mewl\"><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-9\" class=\"dcr-jzxpee\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a><\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"newsletter promotion\" class=\"dcr-av5vqf\">\n<p class=\"dcr-1xjndtj\">Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what\u2019s happening and why it matters<\/p>\n<p><gu-island name=\"SecureSignup\" priority=\"feature\" deferuntil=\"visible\" props=\"{&quot;newsletterId&quot;:&quot;morning-briefing&quot;,&quot;successDescription&quot;:&quot;Our morning email breaks down the key stories of the day, telling you what\u2019s happening and why it matters&quot;}\"\/><span class=\"dcr-1eusqlu\"><strong>Privacy Notice: <\/strong>Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. 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