{"id":214473,"date":"2016-03-24T12:51:03","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/?p=214473"},"modified":"2016-03-24T12:51:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T15:51:03","slug":"variable-gait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/variable-gait\/","title":{"rendered":"Variable gait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walking as fast as possible may not be the best way to exercise.\u00a0 Walking at changing speeds may burn 20% more calories, according to experiments conducted at the Ohio State University, in the United States (<em><i>Biology Letters<\/i><\/em>, September 2015).\u00a0 On a constant-speed treadmill, volunteers were instructed to walk at variable speeds: pick up the pace to move forward along the treadmill frame, then fall back by walking more slowly than the moving belt.\u00a0 \u201cMeasuring the metabolic cost of changing speed is important because people do not live on treadmills or walk at a constant pace,\u201d says Manoj Srinivasan, coordinator of the laboratory.\u00a0 The study showed that 8% of the energy we spend daily on walking gets burned when starting and stopping.\u00a0 As an additional finding, the authors confirmed that people walk more slowly when their destination is close by, and faster when they have a long distance to cover.\u00a0 So here&#8217;s a tip for burning extra calories: walk in a way that seems a bit unnatural, changing your speed and direction often.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Walking at changing speeds may burn 20% more calories","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[247],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-214473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-medicine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214473"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=214473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}