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A recent study found that adding 111 minutes of daily walking could help you live 11 years longer. Here's experts want you to know about walking's benefits.
Walking a certain amount of time each day could add up to 11 years to your life, new study finds. Experts explain walking benefits for longevity.
If you now walk 49 minutes per day or less, walking an extra 111 minutes per day — for a total of 160 — could help you live about 11 years longer, the study found.
Power walking is the act of walking with a speed at the upper end of the natural range for walking gait, typically 7 to 9 km/h (4.3 to 5.6 mph). To qualify as power walking as opposed to jogging or running, at least one foot must be in contact with the ground at all times.
For the least active, moving up to the second group brought gains in life expectancy of 0.6 years, while going up to the third group added 3.5 years—corresponding to life expectancy at birth of ...
Length: 6,500 miles (10,500 km) Date: April 1982 – December 1983 Distance walked per month: 342 miles (550 km) Details: This peace walk of about 20 core people started from Seattle and walked across the U.S. to Washington, D.C. Members then flew to Ireland and walked through much of Europe, taking a boat from Greece to the Middle East.
5 years Distance Over 22,730 km (14,120 mi) Name Jean Beliveau Beliveau became the fifth man to be independently verified as having walked around the world. Walking for 11 years and covering 75,000 km, Beliveau's walk is the longest continuous world walk and has preliminary qualification stage for recognition under the WRA guidelines.
This particularly study found that walking at a solid pace for just 11 minutes a day (a.k.a. 75 minutes spread out over the course of seven days) can give you all of those health perks mentioned ...