{"id":38895,"date":"2025-09-23T15:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38895\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T15:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:47:08","slug":"everyones-talking-about-japanese-interval-walking-what-is-it-and-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/38895\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone\u2019s talking about: Japanese interval walking \u2013 what is it and does it work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Interval walking \u2013 varying your walking speed \u2013 is nothing new, but it\u2019s taken off among social media users looking to boost their fitness\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Studies indicate that interval walking is a good way to boost your heart health. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3086e305-7963-47f2-b862-83e83ff2cb86.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Studies indicate that interval walking is a good way to boost your heart health. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Exercising and keeping fit has become a global obsession. Lifting weights, squat challenges, Hyrox races, personal best runs. And now a new trend has emerged from Japan \u2013 interval walking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Interval walking or Japanese walking has been growing legs on TikTok. Users are hailing it as a way to \u201cboost your steps\u201d or a way to \u201cburn more calories while getting your steps in\u201d. People are changing up their daily walks (even on their treadmill or walking pads) \u2013 mixing it up by varying their pace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interval walking \u2013 varying your walking speed \u2013 is nothing new, but it\u2019s taken off among social media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[499,103,61,60,898,29782],"class_list":{"0":"post-38895","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-latest-news-ticker","13":"tag-service-journalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}