Walking tips please!

k80fox

WOW! So many great tips! Speed intervals are a popular suggestion. I'm definitely going to try that on my next walk!

Thank you for the info about the walking dvds/videos. I find it so easy to conceed to not excercising on a rainy day but a dvd that I can do with what little space I have sounds like a good alternative. I'll check it out!

My 2 mile route can get quite boring so I do try to switch up my directions from time to time. My husband will join me when I ask but he walks at a slower pace and it drives me bonkers! And he often punks out half way through (he works in a physical job so exercise is the last thing he wants to do when he gets home). I had a friend I was walking with almost everyday and it was great but then she went back to work and now our schedules conflict. All my other friends are gym rats so in the end it's just me and my trainers!

I like the idea about using a waterbottle as a weight...never thought about that! Thanks!

I enjoy being outside and looking at everyones yards and stuff too It's fun and I've actually learned a few things to remember when I finally have a house of my own!

k80fox

put one foot in front of the other.

Best tip of them all! Take notes everyone, lol!

songofserenity81

When I started wakling I would walk 8 miles in about 2 1/2 hours, that was too long to be away from looking after my MIL so I tried to build my speed up while still walking, I can now walk a 15 minute mile, but am starting to turn it up by interspersing my walking with jogging (nothing major, but defo faster than the walking) will jog between 3 to 4 lamp posts walk between 2 jog walk rince repeat. The other day doing that I managed to get 4 miles done in 55 minutes. I was really pleased with myself and fully intend trying to repeat the process until i can consistently jog the whole 4 miles.

yevasdottir

I said in an earlier post that, when I'm out walking, I sing - but I also sing in the rest of my life, too.

I lost the greater part of yesterday with concert rehearsals and then an evening performance, so I could only fit in 30 minutes' walking. But I checked on a different site for calories burned SINGING - and at my weight, I burn 136/hour, standing singing (properly).

The site is: http://www.caloriesperhour.com

So: start singing as you go! Who cares? Your neighbours think you're nuts anyway :-)

An additional idea: if you walk off-road (in the park/woodland or similar) using walking poles - again, properly, not too long but like Nordic-walking poles should be - you will burn more calories because it uses the muscles of your upper body as well as your legs.

k80fox

I said in an earlier post that, when I'm out walking, I sing - but I also sing in the rest of my life, too.

I lost the greater part of yesterday with concert rehearsals and then an evening performance, so I could only fit in 30 minutes' walking. But I checked on a different site for calories burned SINGING - and at my weight, I burn 136/hour, standing singing (properly).

The site is: http://www.caloriesperhour.com

So: start singing as you go! Who cares? Your neighbours think you're nuts anyway :-)

An additional idea: if you walk off-road (in the park/woodland or similar) using walking poles - again, properly, not too long but like Nordic-walking poles should be - you will burn more calories because it uses the muscles of your upper body as well as your legs.

Singing burns calories? Really? COOL! Let me warm up! DO RE MI FA SO LA TI DOOOOOOOO!!! LOL! Thanks for the tip though...I do sing actually, just not very loud. I find myself wanting to dance too and that's when I really have to restrain myself, lol.