Japanese walking: Experts say wellness trend can boost strength, fitness, and heart health

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Japanese walking: Experts say wellness trend can boost strength, fitness, and heart health  "Japanese walking" is blowing up online – but what is it and does the science back it up? Spoiler: it does.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/30/japanese-walking-experts-say-wellness-trend-can-boost-strength-fitness-and-heart-health  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00What we find is we have to remember that one's sort of fitness and one's health

00:28is affected by both how healthy the muscles are in terms of their metabolism, the way

00:36they use energy, how fit they are, as well as how well your heart and your lungs and

00:41your circulation.

00:42So in order to get those organs to adapt, we have to push them.

00:48And typically, the heart and the lungs are probably not able to withstand long periods

00:58of high-intensity work.

01:00So rather than taking a traditional approach where you just do a long, steady, you go for

01:04a jog or you go for a walk at a steady pace by inducing these little zaps of hard exercise,

01:13we are pushing the muscles and the heart and the lungs into a region where they then have

01:18to adapt a bit more.

01:20Our sort of public health recommendations fit into this.

01:27You know, for the public, we talk about them getting 150 minutes per week of moderate activity

01:33or 75 minutes per week of more vigorous activity or some combination of the two.

01:38So this Japanese walking fits in perfectly into that.

01:43We can have more vigorous activity and we can have more moderate activity all at once.

01:50One of the benefits mentally, if you have to up the intensity, is you then have to be much

02:00more focused on the activity itself, almost like a similar way to mindfulness.

02:07You have to focus in on what you're doing and that seems to have a benefit.

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