Walk for more than an hour | Research into Walking

 Current research  into walking suggest that walking in a green space for more than 90 minutes will improve your mental health and provide a moderate intensity aerobic activity if you are walking 8km in the 90 minutes (5km in an hour).  

Wellness and Longevity focused walking is easy to add into your daily commuting routine. If you are taking the subway, exit the station before your normal station and walk from that location to your work or your errand. For a sixty minute commute, walk thirty minutes (two stations away) from your destination at a pace that raises your heart rate but does not make you sweat.

NOTE: The total amount of walking time between subway stations on the central London underground lines are less than fifteen minutes apart. (This is one each line not between underground lines.). The farthest distance between stations is 3.9 miles and the shortest distance is 300M so check the distance to make sure you are getting in a 30 minute walk each way.

Because of our POC over the last five years, we suggest walking 60 minutes in the morning by exiting at an earlier stop, getting a coffee and then heading into work.  Because of the UK weather and work commitments, you may find afternoon interference sabotaging your wellness routine.

Although walking green has been proving to make people feel better, a commuting walk is easier to implement into a daily routine.