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Walking or Jogging??

leaamor38
leaamor38 Posts: 1 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
What is effective jogging or walking for 1 hr? :|

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  • DrTrushna
    DrTrushna Posts: 17 Member
    If you are new to exercise (or are returning after a hiatus), I suggest you begin by walking (at your pace), then increase your pace and move over to jogging.
    Weigh in the load you are putting on your knees and be sure they can take it. I had started alternating walking and jogging but my knees started protesting which is when I realized that I needed to pull down my weight before starting to jog. So, am sticking with my walk for now.
    Hope this helped :smile:
    All the best.
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    edited January 2017
    Define effective?

    Running will burn far more calories per mile, and will help establish an aerobic base, but if you're a novice then you're unlikely to be able to run for an hour so it's a moot point.

    If you want to run then use a structured plan to get there, something that involves running and walking intervals to give you a 40 minute or so session that increases the amount of running over the plan.

    Walking is lower impact, but has much less effect on building your stamina.

    They're different, neither one is more effective than the other unless you're clear on your objectives.
  • GottaBurnEmAll
    GottaBurnEmAll Posts: 7,722 Member
    That's too nebulous a question to answer. What are you goals?

    Are you just beginning?

    How old are you?

  • NewGemini130
    NewGemini130 Posts: 219 Member
    I've found that jogging makes me sore for days and I'm less likely to do something in between…Whereas walking I do every day and very consistent. But I'm a newbie jogger so maybe that'd change. I love my daily power walks!
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    leaamor38 wrote: »
    What is effective jogging or walking for 1 hr? :|

    They're both effective depending on your goals. Also, your current state of physical fitness is an important consideration.

    Walking is a good low impact activity and a good way to go about just moving more. It's also a good place to start if you've been otherwise a pretty sedentary person and you are physically unfit. It is a good activity if you're significantly overweight as it is relatively easy on the joints.

    Walking has a relatively low ceiling from an overall aerobic fitness standpoint...that is to say, once you become a bit more fit, it's not going to do a ton in regards to increased physical fitness unless you get into speed/race walking or something. Running will provide for more energy expenditure per mile and do far more for your aerobic base. A lot of people start out walking just to get moving more and slowly add in some jogging or something else down the line.

    I started out with a focus on just moving more and walking was an easy enough way to go about things. I worked my way up to more vigorous exercise activity. I don't run or jog...I hate it...but I am an avid cycling enthusiast and I enjoy weight training.
  • dwulet130
    dwulet130 Posts: 108 Member
    Both burn about 100 calories/mile, so jogging since you're doing more MPH. But like everyone else has said, most people can't just climb off the couch and jog without working into it.
  • AnvilHead
    AnvilHead Posts: 18,343 Member
    NorthCascades wrote: »
    leaamor38 wrote: »
    What is effective jogging or walking for 1 hr? :|

    If you're being chased, jogging is more effective than walking.

    Agreed. And if you need to cover long distances without regard to time, walking is more effective than jogging because it's a more efficient movement and can be sustained longer.

    So, as many have shown in this thread already, it's all about context. "Effective" for what?
  • MeanderingMammal
    MeanderingMammal Posts: 7,866 Member
    edited January 2017
    dwulet130 wrote: »
    Both burn about 100 calories/mile

    Walking calories per mile = 0.3* bodyweight in lbs
    Running calories per mile = 0.6*bodyweight in lbs

    Running burns twice as much energy per mile, for a number of reasons.

    If you're only interested in calorie expenditure then running is better, but that assumes one can run a reasonable distance.

    Using the original question, personally running for an hour I'll burn around 600-700 calories. Walking for an hour, about 200.
  • showerbeer182
    showerbeer182 Posts: 798 Member
    I like to do the...you know...mild walk...then progress into a nice jog...sometimes when the right song is on that jog can turn into a full on sprint!!! But then...I usually slow it back down to a jog...then a walk...sometimes tie my shoe...then it's back to jogging...sometimes when I'm walking too, and like almost trip...I turn that into a jog...so it doesn't look like I was falling but in fact starting to run..you know??? I think a long as your sweating you're good!!!
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    dwulet130 wrote: »
    Both burn about 100 calories/mile, so jogging since you're doing more MPH. But like everyone else has said, most people can't just climb off the couch and jog without working into it.

    Jogging is a type of running. Running typically burns about twice as much energy as waking because it requires you to jump from one foot to the other with every step.
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