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Walking with stroller

Kiyalynn
Kiyalynn Posts: 128 Member
edited February 20 in Fitness and Exercise
So I am a new mother trying to loose weight and one of the ways i hope to do that is by pushing my baby in the stroller on my normal walk. I currently put in that my walk is at a 2.5m and burn 73 calories for my 15 min walk (I use to do a 30 min walk at 2m as well). I looked at changing the walk to the ONLY pushing stroller option on the list but says my 15 min walk would burn only 60 calories. Now maybe I'm wrong but I just think that if I'm walking at my normal pace that I should be burning more calories if I'm doing it while pushing a 35lb jogging stroller + 15lb car seat (attached to stroller to allow it to work with a newborn) + infant. Because honestly while my route is fairly flat I sure feel the burn in my calves while pushing the stroller. The question is how many more calories would it be?

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  • knra_grl
    knra_grl Posts: 1,566 Member
    I would just use the regular walk amount if it's fairly flat. When I had my son (augh almost 24 yrs ago) I lost all the baby weight walking with the stroller, the walks were a minimum of 45 mins and included lots of hills (pushing a stroller up a hill is a great workout). I also used to pick up a few bags worth of groceries (the stroller had a rack on the bottom to carry things) which added to the weight. Walking pushing a stroller is a great way to get your exercise in. You could figure out the distance of your walk to accurately be able to calculate the pace.
  • jenmom2myboys
    jenmom2myboys Posts: 311 Member
    I walk my 3 year old in a jogging stroller for 1/2 hour and burn 90 some calories.
  • Llamapants86
    Llamapants86 Posts: 1,221 Member
    I would just go with the regular walking. Remember that MFP is really bad for over estimating calorie burns so that is kind of a wash. I use a HRM for my runs with and without my 9 month old. The difference is a whole 50 calories on 4km run, so while it might feel harder, the increase calorie burn is pretty tiny.
  • Kiyalynn
    Kiyalynn Posts: 128 Member
    OK! Thanks everyone, its interesting that with the HRM it the stroller only adds 50 calories. I expected it to be more than that. I'll just keep using the regular exercise.
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