Silly walk

Intervention

1 paper2 findings

  • 1 lab in 1 country
  • Funders: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and 2 more
  • Human trial1

Outcomes

2

Cost per distance

upin humans1

1 study
  1. Silly walk increases cost per distance in humans.

    “both Cleese and Palin SWs evinced greater cost per distance”

    Human trialn = 13

    Silly walks: An urgent practical solution to the inactivity and obesity pandemics

    Experimental physiology22 Nov 2025

Energy expenditure

upin humans1

1 study
  1. Silly walk increases energy expenditure in humans (+8.0 ± 2.3 kcal/min).

    “EE, +8.0 ± 2.3 and +5.2 ± 0.8 kcal/min in males and females, respectively”

    Human trialcompared with normal walkingmalesn = 7

    Silly walks: An urgent practical solution to the inactivity and obesity pandemics

    Experimental physiology22 Nov 2025

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