Our bodies were made to move.
But that doesn’t mean you need to grind through high intensity interval workouts to experience the benefits of movement.
The simple act of walking is powerful medicine.
A number of recent studies have proven the link between walking and health and longevity.
In one of these studies, published in 2020 in the Journal of Sports Sciences, regular walkers were found to have longer telomeres and slower biological aging than more sedentary people. Specifically, adults who walked at least 150 minutes per week — an average of just 21.4 minutes per day — had longer telomeres and appeared to be 6.5–7.6 years younger than non-walkers, according to biological clock measurements.
Another study published last year — this one in the Journal of the American Medical Association — showed that taking at least 8,000 steps per day was associated with a 51% lower risk of dying from all causes compared with taking 4,000 steps or less. Going up to 12,000 steps per day was associated with a 65% lower risk of dying compared with taking 4,000 steps.
If a little walking is good, more appears to be better.
This is consistent with a compelling 2017 study published in the International Journey of Obesity, which found that postal workers who walked more…
