Can you manage an 11 minute walk each day?

Doesn’t sound much does it?

According to a report from Cambridge University, just ten minutes per day engaged in brisk walking can reduce the risk of early death from cardio-vascular disease and certain cancers by as much as 10%. 

A brisk walk is defined as one which raises your heart rate and makes you breathe faster, but still allows you to speak at the same time. Other activities which meet these criteria are identified as dancing, riding a bike, hiking and playing tennis.

The research underpinning this finding is an aggregation of 94 different studies covering over 30 million people, which sounds like a pretty robust sample.

You can read the Cambridge report here:-

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/daily-11-minute-brisk-walk-enough-to-reduce-risk-of-early-death

The report highlights examples of moderate-intensity physical activity as:- 

• Brisk walking 
• Dancing 
• Riding a bike 
• Playing tennis 
• Hiking

The NHS actually recommends twice this amount of moderately intensive exercise, 150 minutes over seven days. So if you cannot manage this, even aiming lower brings benefits.

The NHS actually recommends twice this amount of moderately intensive exercise, 150 minutes over seven days. So if you cannot manage this, even aiming lower brings benefits. 

What did you think when you read this article? ’10 minutes, not much’. Or ‘I haven’t got an hour a week to go walking’ 

Let us know.