Using Monty Python To Keep Your New Year’s Resolution?

Hate jogging? A study at Arizona State found John Cleese’s “silly walk” from “Monty Python” burns just as many calories as jogging!

They had 13 healthy adults copy the walk, and hooked them up to a gadget that calculates how many calories they burned. They found it required two-and-a-half times more energy than non-silly walking, and burned as many calories as JOGGING at five to six miles an hour. It was enough to count as “vigorous exercise.”

Which means 11 minutes of silly walking a day would put you over the 75 minutes of vigorous activity per week doctors recommend. Your walk really has to be silly though.  The less-silly ones from the sketch didn’t do much.