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Walking as main exercise

felblossom
felblossom Posts: 132 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
Currently, my main form of exercise is walking. Whenever I'm going somewhere, I try to walk instead of taking the bus &c.

Every day, I usually get at least 3 miles down just by walking back and forth from classes, usually around 45-60 minutes depending on how late I'm running. I get my heart going, and keep it pretty brisk.

MFP tells me that I've burnt 296 calories today from 60 minutes walk at 3.5mph, but I swear it was logging a lower number last week. Should I trust these numbers? I plan on adding some more exercise like running shortly, but I don't want to reach false calorie goals until then...

(PS: Hi, I'm new here. ^^)

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  • dawndw
    dawndw Posts: 203
    If you really want to get close purchase yourself a good quality pedometer. You can set it to steps or calories on most. They have some good ones that are pretty accurate.
  • The_Dude
    The_Dude Posts: 171 Member
    I've been using a pedometer for about 3 months and trying to actively walk more. I started using MFP a little over 2 months ago.

    I just found my hear rate monitor last night so I can't speak to how close the MFP calories burned is to actual but in 2+ months of using MFP I have seen great weight loss and body fat % loss results. I do often eat part or close to all of my exercise calories back.

    My pedometer tracks "aerobic" steps and time. Whenever I walk for 10 or more minutes at a pace faster than 60 steps per minute it counts those steps and time separately. That was the only time I would enter into MFP. I used google maps on my regular routes to figure out the distance and my true MPH pace.
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