Does walking count as exercise!

If it's normal walking in your daily routine.. Like around the grocery store, I wouldn't count it.
If you're going out with the intention of burning some calories, totally count it! It adds up.

Another one? Really?


Ok here goes.


I walk all day every day. It counts. I workout for 80 mins at least, then walk the 7km round trip to the supermarket to grab the daily shopping. I carry it all home on my back. It counts as exercise, even though I do it daily....ALL of it is more than doing nothing. Even if it is daily.

I walk 17km to the further supermarket for a light globe, it counts. I walked 23km to get some mascara, took me 5 hours. It counts.

Walking counts, all walking does. Otherwise things like Fitbit, pedometers in general & other things like that would be redundant & useless.


ALL walking counts.

negatory.

slow walking uses the same energy systems as standing. do you count standing as exercise. How about sitting at your keyboard typing? Exact same energy systems as slow walking.

Basically you're trying to claim ANY movement at all above a coma is exercise. Because to your body, walking and sitting around are exactly the same thing.

If you want real exercise, you need to be moving hard enough to engage higher energy systems. I guess if you're so fat or out of shape you by default are able to do this at a slow walk, then good for you. but for most people, walking will NOT be exercise.

that said, fast walking for sure will be exercise as you're engaging the cardio system.

negatory.

slow walking uses the same energy systems as standing. do you count standing as exercise. How about sitting at your keyboard typing? Exact same energy systems as slow walking.

Basically you're trying to claim ANY movement at all above a coma is exercise. Because to your body, walking and sitting around are exactly the same thing.

If you want real exercise, you need to be moving hard enough to engage higher energy systems. I guess if you're so fat or out of shape you by default are able to do this at a slow walk, then good for you.

Some of these calorie estimates are way off the mark if all you're doing is casual walking. Intense power walking perhaps but definitely wrong estimates for your casual walking speed.

sandy_gee burned 857 calories doing 80 minutes of Walking Kayden with HRM

Yes. It most definitely counts.

Thats a higher burn than marathon runners and tour de france riders burn going full out..

your actual calorie burn in that time is closer to 150 calories. Maybe 200ish if you were power walking.

I don't know where you getting your information from but an 80 min casual or about 2 mph walk would burn around 400 calories whereas a 4 mph walk would be about 700ish. I also weigh over 200 lbs so I know that I get extra burn for that.

metabolic chamber data.

you're also forgetting the 2-3cal/min from BMR.

So your 80min of 400 calories is actually 160 prob once you subtract your BMR data. which is about 2cal/min as I said.

edit: actually that would still be high. 2cal would be more for the 4mph walking. Regardless, 400cal burned from exercise from a 80min 2mph walk is way too high. Simply not possible.