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While limited research has been conducted to define a continuous walking event that accounts for interruptions, no method has considered the intensity change caused by these interruptions, which is crucial for achieving the associated health outcomes. A sample of 24 staff members at the University of Salford were recruited. The participants wore an accelerometer-based device (activPAL\u2122) for seven days continuously and completed an activity diary, to explore a novel methodological approach of combining short interruptions of time between walking events based on an average walking cadence. The definition of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) used was a minimum walking cadence of either 76, 100, or 109 steps\/min. The average daily time spent in MVPA increased from 75.2 \u00b1 32.6 min to 86.5 \u00b1 37.4 min using the 76 steps\/min, 48.3 \u00b1 29.5 min to 53.0 \u00b1 33.3 min using the 100 steps\/min threshold, and 31.4 \u00b1 20.5 min to 33.9 \u00b1 22.6 min using the 109 steps\/min threshold; the difference before grouping and after grouping was statistically significant (p &lt; 0.001). 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