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Health
Sam Rider

The 3x3 interval walking workout is the perfect cardio-boosting, muscle-preserving practice and you can easily add it to your daily routine

Two women power walking in a park in winter.

Walking is good for you, but if you want to get more health benefits from the time you spend doing it, try the little-known interval walking training method. IWT, as it's known in research circles, is a straightforward training routine that alternates between fast and slow walking intervals.

Like high-intensity interval training (HIIT) and its lesser-known sibling low-intensity steady state (LISS), it's a well-researched workout protocol shown to deliver a raft of health benefits such as reducing high blood pressure.

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