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You walk at 5 miles per hour? That's a beginners running speed.0
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amusedmonkey wrote: »
I usually don't trust treadmills, but If you actually are doing 5 miles an hour at 12 incline, 700 calories an hour (depending on your weight) is not that unrealistic. If you mean 5kph on the other hand, that's closer to 500 calories burned, depending on your weight. Whichever it is, that requires an amazing cardio capacity... kudos to you.
5 miles an hour is a running pace for many. I would imagine it would be very difficult to maintain that pace and that incline without holding on.
I could easily run 5 miles in an hour. I could not walk at that incline.0 -
Calorie burn is based entirely on the intensity of the activity, NOT the activity itself.
To say "walking at an incline burns more calories than running" is nonsensical. It is meaningless without knowing the actual workloads being compared.
In terms of intensity, your fitness level will determine the intensity you can sustain. If you can work at a certain intensity doing one cardio activity, you can theoretically work at the same intensity (and burn the same calories) with any cardio activity. (Not exactly true in real life, but physiologically true).
So if you can walk at a certain speed/incline combo, you can also run at a speed that would be the same intensity, and thus calorie burn would be the same.
Some people PREFER incline walking because the lower impact allows them to sustain the exercise for a longer duration, but that has nothing to do with the physiological comparison of the two activities.0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »
I usually don't trust treadmills, but If you actually are doing 5 miles an hour at 12 incline, 700 calories an hour (depending on your weight) is not that unrealistic. If you mean 5kph on the other hand, that's closer to 500 calories burned, depending on your weight. Whichever it is, that requires an amazing cardio capacity... kudos to you.
5 miles an hour is a running pace for many. I would imagine it would be very difficult to maintain that pace and that incline without holding on.
I could easily run 5 miles in an hour. I could not walk at that incline.
The combination of 5 mph and 12% is the equivalent of running about a 6:30 mile pace. So...color me skeptical.
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3dogsrunning wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »
I usually don't trust treadmills, but If you actually are doing 5 miles an hour at 12 incline, 700 calories an hour (depending on your weight) is not that unrealistic. If you mean 5kph on the other hand, that's closer to 500 calories burned, depending on your weight. Whichever it is, that requires an amazing cardio capacity... kudos to you.
5 miles an hour is a running pace for many. I would imagine it would be very difficult to maintain that pace and that incline without holding on.
I could easily run 5 miles in an hour. I could not walk at that incline.
The combination of 5 mph and 12% is the equivalent of running about a 6:30 mile pace. So...color me skeptical.
I've ran 6:30mi pace and ran 6mph (10:00/mi) pace at 10-15% incline. 6:30/mi is harder.0 -
Well... It does...Evening/morning (depending where you are) ... Anybody had any success with walking on a high incline rather than running a low one .. I read this uses more calories . I've burnt off 700 today doing this but would like to tone too so any feedback would be great xxxx
Walking up an incline is easier than running. Ask anyone that's out of shape. Why would something that's easier to do burn more calories?
I could have got this wrong but i think it's to do with the fact your using more muscles to walk up an incline and using muscles burns more calories ... Running is more cardio .. Anybody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong X
Similar to how I hear people say that cold water will boil faster than warm, it's highly unlikely that an easier activity burns more than the harder activity. Walking, incline or not, is a perfectly fine activity, just don't fool yourself into thinking it's something that it's not.
Well that settles that.
You know, except for facts, science, and reality.0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »amusedmonkey wrote: »
I usually don't trust treadmills, but If you actually are doing 5 miles an hour at 12 incline, 700 calories an hour (depending on your weight) is not that unrealistic. If you mean 5kph on the other hand, that's closer to 500 calories burned, depending on your weight. Whichever it is, that requires an amazing cardio capacity... kudos to you.
5 miles an hour is a running pace for many. I would imagine it would be very difficult to maintain that pace and that incline without holding on.
I could easily run 5 miles in an hour. I could not walk at that incline.
The combination of 5 mph and 12% is the equivalent of running about a 6:30 mile pace. So...color me skeptical.
I've ran 6:30mi pace and ran 6mph (10:00/mi) pace at 10-15% incline. 6:30/mi is harder.
Funny thing about walking vs running, running a 6mph incline is actually easier (and burns fewer calories) than walking a 5mph same incline. Walking starts out more efficient than running calorie-wise, but as speed and incline go up running becomes more efficient, so a fast walk on a high incline burns more calories than a slow run on the same incline. So in your case to rival walking 5mph on 12 incline you would have to run at about 6.5 mph on the same incline.
Even ignoring the above, what @Azdak said is correct from a calorie burn perspective and in theory, but in practice there are many other variables that affect perceived exertion other than the pure aerobic capacity and calorie burn.
I do suspect OP used the wrong unit though. 5 kph = 3.1 mph (which is still pretty impressive on that incline)0 -
I'm 5'8 and have to start to jog at 5mph
I'm pretty sure this must be km/h0 -
Evening/morning (depending where you are) ... Anybody had any success with walking on a high incline rather than running a low one .. I read this uses more calories . I've burnt off 700 today doing this but would like to tone too so any feedback would be great xxxx
Walking up an incline is easier than running. Ask anyone that's out of shape. Why would something that's easier to do burn more calories?
I could have got this wrong but i think it's to do with the fact your using more muscles to walk up an incline and using muscles burns more calories ... Running is more cardio .. Anybody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong X
Similar to how I hear people say that cold water will boil faster than warm, it's highly unlikely that an easier activity burns more than the harder activity. Walking, incline or not, is a perfectly fine activity, just don't fool yourself into thinking it's something that it's not.
Water is about pure numbers, physical activity is not. There are other factors that affect how hard you find the activity, it's not all about calories. For example, an avid cyclist who can put in impressive cycling burns will likely struggle to produce the same calorie burn running if they haven't done it before, simply due to muscle conditioning. Almost everyone is conditioned to walk, but not everyone is conditioned to run. Even a good runner may find keeping up the same performance in hot weather or when tired harder than cool weather or when rested and fueled. Heck, even mentally, all variables equal, some runs may feel harder than others for no reason at all other than head space. Humans are complicated systems that can't be reduced to a single set of statistics like boiling water.0 -
It's got to be km/h, so 5k an hour being about 3 miles an hour pace.
Always found this helpful when converting. http://therunningbug.co.uk/Emails/treadmill-cheatsheet.pdf0 -
singingflutelady wrote: »You walk at 5 miles per hour? That's a beginners running speed.
That's what I was thinking too 5 mph is slow jog0 -
I can't run. So I walk\power walk full incline. What you also got to look at is that incline will be pushing for a higher heart rate. So you'll be burning more by that. Then going 5 days of 30 minutes, say for a month, of high incline and it will really tone the legs.
An easier walk is at 3.0. But if you wanna go heavy, switch up between 3.3-3.5.0 -
If I walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes at a speed of between 3 and 3.5 mph (varies during workout) at an incline of 3... it tells me about 360 calories. But, i do hold on for alot of it0
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Well... It does...Evening/morning (depending where you are) ... Anybody had any success with walking on a high incline rather than running a low one .. I read this uses more calories . I've burnt off 700 today doing this but would like to tone too so any feedback would be great xxxx
Walking up an incline is easier than running. Ask anyone that's out of shape. Why would something that's easier to do burn more calories?
I could have got this wrong but i think it's to do with the fact your using more muscles to walk up an incline and using muscles burns more calories ... Running is more cardio .. Anybody feel free to correct me if I'm wrong X
Similar to how I hear people say that cold water will boil faster than warm, it's highly unlikely that an easier activity burns more than the harder activity. Walking, incline or not, is a perfectly fine activity, just don't fool yourself into thinking it's something that it's not.
Sorry, not true:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-true-that-hot-water/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/health/18real.html?_r=0
http://kitchen-myths.com/2011/04/04/cold-water-boils-faster-than-warm-water/
https://www.quora.com/When-does-cold-water-boil-faster-than-warm-water0
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