Behold the Monty Python workout. It’s silly! It’s walky! It works, according to an important — or, at least, actual — study published today in the annual holiday edition of the BMJ, a ...

FACT: The Monty Python “silly walk” can be great exercise. By Rachel Feltman. The 2022 holiday issue of the British Medical Journal had a real Christmas cracker of a study: ...

It seems Monty Python, in an attempt to satirize government bureaucratic inefficiency with the Ministry of Silly Walks, may have touched upon something brilliant that could prove to be extremely ...

In any case, if you’re a Monty Python fan who’s always wanted an excuse to silly walk without fear of disapproving eyes, go buy yourself that bowler hat and high kick, skip, and shuffle to ...

The study was inspired by the “Ministry of Silly Walks” skit from “Monty Python.” Alamy Stock Photo You may look silly — but you’ll be all the fitter for it. Shutterstock.

Want a silly yet effective way to reach the daily physical activity targets? Try the British comedy troupe Monty Python's Teabag walk. For their study, published in the Christmas issue of The BMJ ...

The walk was made famous by John Cleese's character Mr. Teabag, and requires 2.5 times as much energy as normal walking, per a study Monty Python were pioneers in sketch comedy, but their impact ...

They found that Teabag's silly walk is much more variable than a normal human walk—6.7 times as much—while Putey's walk-in-progress is only 3.3 times more variable.

Adopting Monty Python silly walks boosts calories burnt per stroll. A new study has measured the energy expenditure of silly, irregular gaits. Depositphotos. View 1 Image 1 / 1.

The study is based on the silly walk from the British television show, "Monty Python." After all the measurements were completed, the silly walk did in fact make a difference in burning calories.

For anyone unfamiliar with Python’s Ministry of Silly Walks sketch, it’s described by The Times as “a satire on bureaucratic inefficiency” and features John Cleese as civil servant Mr ...

Monty Python's Ministry of Silly Walks was taken very seriously by researchers to find out whether inefficient walking might be good for you. Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty.