Found out today how to burn more calories while walking.

br3adman
br3adman Posts: 284 Member
edited November 18 in Fitness and Exercise
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.
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  • IILikeToMoveItMoveIt
    IILikeToMoveItMoveIt Posts: 1,172 Member
    Great idea.
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    So basically, you played fetch with yourself?
  • kbsangel1986
    kbsangel1986 Posts: 153 Member
    edited May 2015
    Hi fellow Imgurian (im a lurker). Glad you found a way to burn a few extra cals.

    >°-°< (mobile cat tax, since I can't use android emoji cat on here)
  • Nati1787
    Nati1787 Posts: 3 Member
    edited May 2015
    "DopeItUp", you are hilarious! =)
  • Saryia
    Saryia Posts: 38 Member
    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 :/
  • Adc7225
    Adc7225 Posts: 1,318 Member
    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 :)
  • Nati1787
    Nati1787 Posts: 3 Member
    br3adman - how would you track the calorie burn with that?? Good idea... =)
  • SueInAz
    SueInAz Posts: 6,592 Member
    Sounds like me playing golf.
  • Cherimoose
    Cherimoose Posts: 5,208 Member
    br3adman wrote: »
    Next time you walk try it out ;) you can use any ball or anything really.

    Don't use a boomerang. B)
  • 47Jacqueline
    47Jacqueline Posts: 6,993 Member
    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.
  • br3adman
    br3adman Posts: 284 Member
    Nati1787 wrote: »
    br3adman - how would you track the calorie burn with that?? Good idea... =)

    I used a calorie calculator for "touching toes" its close enough I guess lol.
  • br3adman
    br3adman Posts: 284 Member
    DopeItUp wrote: »
    So basically, you played fetch with yourself?

    Basically yes haha
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,681 Member
    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. :smiley:
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 25,681 Member
    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. :smiley:

  • Chieflrg
    Chieflrg Posts: 9,097 Member
    I'm guessing you crossfit...
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 49,021 Member
    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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  • maidentl
    maidentl Posts: 3,203 Member
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    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. :worried:
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    maidentl wrote: »
    ninerbuff wrote: »
    Lateral walking (side shuffling) will also work glutes and hips. Do it sporatically on both sides for like 20 feet or so.

    A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
    IDEA Fitness member
    Kickboxing Certified Instructor
    Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
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    I think the people driving down the street would look at me weird. :worried:

    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:

  • mccanns725
    mccanns725 Posts: 36 Member
    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!
  • AbsoluteTara79
    AbsoluteTara79 Posts: 266 Member
    Aww. I thought for sure that you discovered prancercise.
  • CricketClover
    CricketClover Posts: 388 Member
    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! :)
  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    SueInAz wrote: »
    Sounds like me playing golf.

    LMAO!

  • isulo_kura
    isulo_kura Posts: 818 Member
    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 hills
  • joelschneider45066
    joelschneider45066 Posts: 76 Member
    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!
  • JohnBarth
    JohnBarth Posts: 672 Member
    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.

  • jorinya
    jorinya Posts: 933 Member
    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.
  • joelschneider45066
    joelschneider45066 Posts: 76 Member
    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. cua9ucoqqkx8.jpg
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  • 7lenny7
    7lenny7 Posts: 3,498 Member
    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.
  • joelschneider45066
    joelschneider45066 Posts: 76 Member
    Should have posted this pic - even a better view....

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  • snickerscharlie
    snickerscharlie Posts: 8,578 Member
    mkwrose wrote: »
    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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