Found out today how to burn more calories while walking.
br3adman
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Simg]http://i.imgur.com/NigzTVM.jpg[/img] I was walking today like I normally do and found an old golf ball. I dropped it so had to bend over to pick it up. After that something clicked so I started throwing it 5 or 10 feet having to walk in the ditch to pick it back up. Bending down burnes a few calories and you're focusing on the ball so the walk goes by more pleasant. I usually walk that route in 25-30 mins and it took 43 mins today. Next time you walk try it out 
you can use any ball or anything really.
you can use any ball or anything really.0
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Great idea.0
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So basically, you played fetch with yourself?0
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Hi fellow Imgurian (im a lurker). Glad you found a way to burn a few extra cals.
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"DopeItUp", you are hilarious!
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You can also carry weights in a backpack, or some hand weights. I play fetch while walking, as well...but my dog is usually there to go fetch it for me
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I wear a Fitbit and when I first started wearing it I would find ways to get extra steps from doing normal tasks. So that idea is right in line with increasing the activity in our lives.
Nothing wrong with playing fetch with yourself, I have some of my better workouts alone
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br3adman - how would you track the calorie burn with that?? Good idea... 0
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Sounds like me playing golf.0
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Good because the reality is that walking is not particularly good for getting fit. Great to get over being sedentary, but you need to get your heart rate up to get fitness benefits.0
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It's so hilly where I live that if I dropped a golf ball, I'd spend the next 15 minutes running all the way down to the beach after it. 0
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47Jacqueline wrote: »Good because the reality is that walking is not particularly good for getting fit. Great to get over being sedentary, but you need to get your heart rate up to get fitness benefits.
You must a) walk slowly or b) live in a flat part of the world.
My walks always incorporate a steep climb. They have to. I can't get where I'm going without some sort of climbing.
Which, incidentally, comes back to the topic of this thread ... if you want to burn more calories while walking:
a) walk as briskly as you can
b) walk up hill or up stairs as part of your walk
Most of the time I also carry a heavy backpack, as Saryia suggested.
I'm up to 400 km so far this year.
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I'm guessing you crossfit...0
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Lateral walking (side shuffling) will also work glutes and hips. Do it sporatically on both sides for like 20 feet or so.
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Lateral walking (side shuffling) will also work glutes and hips. Do it sporatically on both sides for like 20 feet or so.
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I think the people driving down the street would look at me weird.
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Lateral walking (side shuffling) will also work glutes and hips. Do it sporatically on both sides for like 20 feet or so.
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I think the people driving down the street would look at me weird.
yup!! My neighbours already think I'm weird doing umpteen laps up and around my street all day everyday. I ain't shuffling, let a lone throwing a ball for myself to fetch :laugh:
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I'm saddened to see someone saying walking is not good exercise. It's great exercise!! I walk at a 3.5 mph rate on a very varied route at home or on an uphill on the treadmill. It does not burn calories as quickly as running. But, it vastly improved my cardio fitness. I aim to maintain my pace and worked to be able to that without my heart rate going above 150. Now it averages 140! Exercise is exercise!0
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Aww. I thought for sure that you discovered prancercise.0
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mccanns725 wrote: »I'm saddened to see someone saying walking is not good exercise. It's great exercise!! I walk at a 3.5 mph rate on a very varied route at home or on an uphill on the treadmill. It does not burn calories as quickly as running. But, it vastly improved my cardio fitness. I aim to maintain my pace and worked to be able to that without my heart rate going above 150. Now it averages 140! Exercise is exercise!
I am with you mccanns, walking is sometimes the only exercise someone can do, whether it be for physical reasons or monetary. For someone to say that you can't get fit by walking is crazy, I have personally done it as have many, many people on this site. Keep on walkin! 0 -
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47Jacqueline wrote: »Good because the reality is that walking is not particularly good for getting fit.
That is just nonsense. Walking is a great exercise and yes you can raise your HR while walking as there;s these big bumps called hills0 -
I have found walking to be an extremely good alternative to my "normal" workouts. And in fact, I have been combining that with mowing my 2 acres with a push mower instead of my normal workouts on the elliptical and it's been very successful for me so far. I typically walk about 4 miles on days when I don't mow, but on days when I do mow, such as today, I typically get in about 16,000 steps from just mowing which takes me about 2 hours of straight mowing and burns (according to my Fitbit Charge HR) about 1500 calories!0
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47Jacqueline wrote: »Good because the reality is that walking is not particularly good for getting fit. Great to get over being sedentary, but you need to get your heart rate up to get fitness benefits.
Umm.... BS. Walking is very beneficial. My heart rate gets up just fine via walking at a 14:30 pace.. up hills. You can get as much of out of walking as you want.
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47Jacqueline wrote: »Good because the reality is that walking is not particularly good for getting fit. Great to get over being sedentary, but you need to get your heart rate up to get fitness benefits.
I disagree with you totally. After I miscarried in 2009 I turned to eating and gained a lot of weight, over 3 stone. Then I got a job working in a catalogue company located right beside the train station. I would walk to the furthest train station every day with my husband, which took 40 mins, see him off and then walk to the other train station five minutes away to catch my own. Once at the train station I would take the stairs and go to work. Then after work, walk downstairs to the train station, get the train, wait for my husband and walk back. We did this hail, rain, snow or sunshine and I lost all the weight I gained and then some. Swinging your arms actually increases the number of calories burned and increases the cardio too.0 -
Yea I agree completely. I find it very easy to keep my HR in fat burn or even push it to cardio when I want to by just walking.
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47Jacqueline wrote: »Good because the reality is that walking is not particularly good for getting fit. Great to get over being sedentary, but you need to get your heart rate up to get fitness benefits.
I completely disagree. I started out in early March 50 pounds overweight and unable to run 100 yards without gasping for breath.
I bought a Fitbit, started walking and two months later I was able to RUN my first 5k. I went with the intention of walking it, but my friend talked me into running it. I had done no running in the two months prior, only walking.
Since then I've run at least 5k every other day and Monday I completed another 5k in 31 minutes. I would not have been to do that if walking was not a good exercise for getting fit.
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mccanns725 wrote: »I'm saddened to see someone saying walking is not good exercise. It's great exercise!! I walk at a 3.5 mph rate on a very varied route at home or on an uphill on the treadmill. It does not burn calories as quickly as running. But, it vastly improved my cardio fitness. I aim to maintain my pace and worked to be able to that without my heart rate going above 150. Now it averages 140! Exercise is exercise!
I am with you mccanns, walking is sometimes the only exercise someone can do, whether it be for physical reasons or monetary. For someone to say that you can't get fit by walking is crazy, I have personally done it as have many, many people on this site. Keep on walkin!
Yup, I'm a walker. Really bad knees prevent me from running. So I walk 8 to 10 miles a day. Every day. I have lost over 30 lbs in 3 1/2 months, am 60, post menopausal with a messed up thyroid (Hashimoto's). If it wasn't for the walking I would have a *very* hard time losing weight because I'd pretty much have to starve myself to compensate for these factors that are conspiring against me.
So although I get that walking may not be *the best* cardio workout on the planet, for some of us the option is either walk or just sit on the couch getting more obese by the day.
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