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KaylaSavage15

so usually I walk for 60 minutes at a 7.0 incline at 3.5 mph.. I burn about 620 calories. My doctor told me that's bad and I need to alternate every 10 minutes to fluctuate my heart rate. Is this true? I feel like lowering the incline would lower the amount of calories I I would burn

IsaackGMOON

No. Your doctor doesn't know much by the sound of it; unless you have some heart condition which deters you from raising your heart rate* then I don't see what's bad about it.

aysonj24

try intervals if you want to burn that amount of calories in a span of 30 min instead of 60. Try walking incline for 5mins the increase speed to jog for 3 min and then back again to walking. Repeat steps. You will burn calories and fat faster

BradW99

You're just doing steady state cardio. Can't imagine why a doctor would say that's bad.

mwyvr

KaylaSavage15 wrote: »

so usually I walk for 60 minutes at a 7.0 incline at 3.5 mph.. I burn about 620 calories. My doctor told me that's bad and I need to alternate every 10 minutes to fluctuate my heart rate.

Steady state cardio is one of the main training tools of distance endurance runners / endurance athletes period. I very specifically run at a heart rate level +/- only a few beats, whether on the flats or in the mountains.

In this respect, it is sad to say, your doctor does not know what she/he is talking about. If your doctor can't tell you specifically why "that's bad", you have your answer - you can safely ignore that piece of advice.

Psychgrrl

Did he elaborate on why it was bad or what the goal was in asking you to change what you're doing? If not, ask him. You have a right to know why he's asking you to do anything and what you should expect out of it.

indyrunning

I once had a doctor tell me that I did too many sit ups, my stomach was too flat, and that what was causing the radiating pain in my stomach. Yeah, turned out I had acute pancreatitis. Not too many of those dangerous sit ups I was doing...