[HN Gopher] Quantifying the benefits of inefficient walking [pdf]
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Quantifying the benefits of inefficient walking [pdf]
Author : jillesvangurp
Score : 38 points
Date : 2022-12-22 07:55 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bmj.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bmj.com)
| lynguist wrote:
| See also: The famous 1999 Christmas paper on MR imaging of a
| coitus. (Which won an Ignobel prize.)
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| https://youtu.be/OVAdCKaU3vY
| Arrath wrote:
| The "teabag walk" as presented here is not what online shooters
| have brought me to believe it is.
| jillesvangurp wrote:
| Monty Python inspired laboratory based experimental study
| bobsmooth wrote:
| >Conclusions: For adults with no known gait disorder who average
| approximately 5000 steps/day, exchanging about 22%-34% of their
| daily steps with higher energy, low efficiency walking in Teabag
| style--requiring around 12-19 min--could increase daily EE by 100
| kcal.
|
| I love science.
| walnutclosefarm wrote:
| Ignoble Prize candidate, for sure.
| bitwize wrote:
| I was going to comment "This research was commissioned by the
| Ministry of Silly Walks", but Monty Python and that sketch are
| specifically mentioned in the paper as inspiration!
|
| I have a slightly silly walk I use. I call it the ASIMO walk.
| It's a deliberate walk with the knees very slightly bent in the
| manner of an ASIMO robot, with an eye to taking the load off my
| knee joints (which bear the brunt of it if I lock out as normal)
| and strengthening the stabilizer muscles around my knees, to
| better preserve the joints as I age. Recovery from knee
| replacement is a stone cold bitch and I'd rather not endure that
| if I can avoid it.
| pxeger1 wrote:
| This is presumably the BMJ's annual silly article
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