Found out today how to burn more calories while walking.
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br3adman
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Simg]http://i.imgur.com/NigzTVM.jpg[/img] I was walking today like I normally do and found an old golf ball. I dropped it so had to bend over to pick it up. After that something clicked so I started throwing it 5 or 10 feet having to walk in the ditch to pick it back up. Bending down burnes a few calories and you're focusing on the ball so the walk goes by more pleasant. I usually walk that route in 25-30 mins and it took 43 mins today. Next time you walk try it out you can use any ball or anything really.
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Great idea.0
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So basically, you played fetch with yourself?0
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Hi fellow Imgurian (im a lurker). Glad you found a way to burn a few extra cals.
>°-°< (mobile cat tax, since I can't use android emoji cat on here)0 -
"DopeItUp", you are hilarious!0
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You can also carry weights in a backpack, or some hand weights. I play fetch while walking, as well...but my dog is usually there to go fetch it for me0
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I wear a Fitbit and when I first started wearing it I would find ways to get extra steps from doing normal tasks. So that idea is right in line with increasing the activity in our lives.
Nothing wrong with playing fetch with yourself, I have some of my better workouts alone0 -
br3adman - how would you track the calorie burn with that?? Good idea...0
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Sounds like me playing golf.0
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Good because the reality is that walking is not particularly good for getting fit. Great to get over being sedentary, but you need to get your heart rate up to get fitness benefits.0
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It's so hilly where I live that if I dropped a golf ball, I'd spend the next 15 minutes running all the way down to the beach after it.0
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47Jacqueline wrote: »Good because the reality is that walking is not particularly good for getting fit. Great to get over being sedentary, but you need to get your heart rate up to get fitness benefits.
You must a) walk slowly or b) live in a flat part of the world.
My walks always incorporate a steep climb. They have to. I can't get where I'm going without some sort of climbing.
Which, incidentally, comes back to the topic of this thread ... if you want to burn more calories while walking:
a) walk as briskly as you can
b) walk up hill or up stairs as part of your walk
Most of the time I also carry a heavy backpack, as Saryia suggested.
I'm up to 400 km so far this year.
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I'm guessing you crossfit...0
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I think the people driving down the street would look at me weird.0 -
I think the people driving down the street would look at me weird.
yup!! My neighbours already think I'm weird doing umpteen laps up and around my street all day everyday. I ain't shuffling, let a lone throwing a ball for myself to fetch :laugh:
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I'm saddened to see someone saying walking is not good exercise. It's great exercise!! I walk at a 3.5 mph rate on a very varied route at home or on an uphill on the treadmill. It does not burn calories as quickly as running. But, it vastly improved my cardio fitness. I aim to maintain my pace and worked to be able to that without my heart rate going above 150. Now it averages 140! Exercise is exercise!0
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Aww. I thought for sure that you discovered prancercise.0
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