Strolla: Japanese Walking App

The Japanese walking coach that keeps talking when your iPhone is locked and in your pocket. 3 minutes brisk, 3 minutes easy, five times over — about 30 minutes. At every switch, a calm voice tells you the pace that's starting and your phone buzzes — once for easy, twice for brisk. Screen locked, earbuds in, your own favorite music still playing. No staring at a timer, no unlocking to check. Just walk. THE METHOD Interval Walking Training (IWT) was developed by researchers at Shinshu University in Japan and studied for over 20 years. In a Shinshu University study of adults, five months of interval walking training was associated with improvements in aerobic fitness, leg strength and blood pressure. Strolla guides you through the interval timing researchers used in Japanese walking studies — you decide your own pace. A good rule of thumb: brisk is a pace where talking gets hard; easy is…