joggging/running/walking only please!

blobby10

The biggest tip I ever had was not to beat yourself up (feel bad) if you don't run as well one day. It's OK to walk! You burn as many calories doing a 4 mile walk as you do on a 4 mile run - it just takes longer. Funnily enough once I got that into my head and accepted it, I didn't need to walk anymore and can now comfortably do a 4 mile run most days!

fteale

on average for a 20 min interval run i burn between 300/400 calories which is about the same as what i get if i was to do a 30 mninute steady jog. I think alternating between the two is good as you said as interval running if done properly is not something to be done more than 2/3 times a week!! but the interval sprints keep you burning calories after you've stopped working out i heard due to the effect on ur metabolism. I just find it more exciting than one long steady run!

Thanks. I never know what to put for calories. I average about 700 cals per hour running steadily, so half an hour of intervals would be around 400, I guess.

jessbennett1986

Thanks for the advice!
I live toward the cities so unfortunately its all pavement for me. But I do have family that I get to visit at least once a month that live out in the country, and I just LOVE LOVE running through the countryside! The scenery is amazing and if I could live back there right now I would!

jessbennett1986

So for all you avid runners out there, in your opinion does your diet help with your running or does it not really make a difference? I would like to experiment a little with how diet may affect my running capabilities. I am a vegetarian, so you'd think I would be eating "clean" right? Wrong. Although I've made a step into the right direction for me, I have not been able to kick the processed bad food for me. Honestly, since I've made the switch 6 months ago, I eat MORE processed packaged food than I did before! As alot of meat substitutes are highly processed and most are unable to replicate at home. So I want to hear your intake on this! What kind of food do you eat and does eating 3 or 6 meals really make a difference for you? Is it better to eat before or after you are done running?

johnwhitent

The biggest tip I ever had was not to beat yourself up (feel bad) if you don't run as well one day. It's OK to walk! You burn as many calories doing a 4 mile walk as you do on a 4 mile run - it just takes longer. Funnily enough once I got that into my head and accepted it, I didn't need to walk anymore and can now comfortably do a 4 mile run most days!

Hate to be a “corrector” but the idea that walking burns as many calories as running the same distance is a widespread and popular fable. It is often repeated by misinformed trainers and in blogs so many people believe it, but several published scientific studies have thoroughly disproven it. I was just reading about this last night in “Smart Exercise” by Covert Bailey. Running/jogging recruits far more muscle than walking and burns significantly higher calories and has far greater systemic health benefits over walking. Check the MFP database: a 3 mile walk at 3 mph (one hour walking) at my weight burns 266 cal. Running at a 6 mph pace for 30 minutes would cover the same 3 miles but would burn 402 calories. Don't get me wrong, walking is great and I enjoy it as a recovery exercise weekly, but it does not deliver the systemic benefits or calorie burn of running. I am a run-walker myself and advocate adding walk breaks to running for everyone except professional competitive runners. Sorry to be a stickler, but this is one bit if misinformation that needs to be corrected for the benefit of anyone interested in running.
I do agree with the poster on not beating yourself up if you don't run well on a given day. Certainly walk as needed. Just don't imagine that the health benefits are the same.

npatel160

Hi I started running a couple of months ago and I love it!!! I run on the track they built over the lake I live near - which is 1.7 miles one way....it is great exercise, keep it up!!!

Sauchie

I live in NEPA in the winter I use my wii & HmR for power walking/jogging and in the summer I'll tread water for 2 hours in my pool. For me riunning is out as I had joints removed from my one ankle. Good luck

jessbennett1986

on average for a 20 min interval run i burn between 300/400 calories which is about the same as what i get if i was to do a 30 mninute steady jog. I think alternating between the two is good as you said as interval running if done properly is not something to be done more than 2/3 times a week!! but the interval sprints keep you burning calories after you've stopped working out i heard due to the effect on ur metabolism. I just find it more exciting than one long steady run!

That's a great incentive! Maybe I will look into that!

jessbennett1986

I live in NEPA in the winter I use my wii & HmR for power walking/jogging and in the summer I'll tread water for 2 hours in my pool. For me riunning is out as I had joints removed from my one ankle. Good luck

Thanks! Great pictures by the way! You're doing great!

jessbennett1986

Hi I started running a couple of months ago and I love it!!! I run on the track they built over the lake I live near - which is 1.7 miles one way....it is great exercise, keep it up!!!

I bet that's pretty and amazing to run over huh? I go home about once a month which is by Hinckley MN and if I drive another 45 min north I would beable to run on the North Shore. It's so pretty there with all the rock and water and nature that I think I will do that the next time I am home!