Japanese Walking Method: I tried the new style of walking to see if it works

Hiker Lee Furness tried the 'Japanese walking method' here's what he found.

Transcript

00:00Konnichiwa! I think I'm turning Japanese. I think I'm turning Japanese. I really think so.

00:09No, I haven't gone mad. That happened a long time ago. What I'm doing is practicing this

00:18sort of new Japanese walking technique. It's not an ancient technique, it's a modern technique

00:25which they've studied and created which is sort of taking off around the world and it's really simple

00:34because all it is is to go for a walk, sorry ladies, four times a week for 30 minutes.

00:43The thing that makes it different is that you're meant to walk for three minutes really fast,

00:51about as fast as you can and then really slow for three minutes and then really fast for three minutes

01:01and really slow for three minutes. I think you get the point. Just for half an hour, four times a week

01:10and this is my third day of doing it and actually I can feel a difference. I mean

01:19I'm not new to walking, I like hiking and things like that, but I normally go at a steady pace

01:26but I can feel already my legs. I don't know, I can't say they're getting stronger already,

01:33but I can feel something is happening and you know the first day when I did it

01:41I can't say that I enjoyed it so much. My body was saying, hey Apple, what's going on here?

01:52Don't like this. Second day, already it was easier and now

01:56it doesn't seem to be that much of a problem. One of the things that they were trying to create

02:04in this study was an exercise that people would continue to do because lack of motivation

02:12seemed to always kick in with many of the traditional exercise regimes

02:20and they found that by doing this it kept people motivated because it's not so difficult to do

02:2930 minutes four times a week, two hours a week.