Benefits of Walking?
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OP, can you do 30 minutes of Jillian Michaels while the baby is asleep or otherwise occupied in addition to 30 minutes of walking outdoors?0
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I thought of this thread a couple of hours ago when I was out walking. A father was out exercise walking with his little one (maybe 3 months old) in a front carrier. Loved it! He was so cute carrying that baby.0
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I love walking! Get yourself a babysling if your little one doesn't like the stroller.0
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Walking is great exercise. Strap the baby on!0
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Walking 10 miles most days gives me roughly 1000 extra calories. Best thing ever!
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Put that baby in a pack and take off. Most cranky babies are soothed that way and the extra weight will make you strong. I love to walk. I listen to audiobooks on my phone and take my dog. It reduces so much stress.0
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Do a net search for, " How to Get Fit Solely By a Baby Stroller " Walking is good, I do it everyday, usually for 40 min.0
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dwozniak16 wrote: »I usually only have about 30 minutes that I can get away from baby to exercise. In that time I'll usually go for a walk at a brisk pace. I usually only burn about 150 calories though. I'm curious if this is enough to see a difference. The walking has been paired with good nutrition. What has walking done for you?
To be completely honest I think walking was the best exercise I've ever done for myself.
I essentially walked off most of my weight that I lost. I think my first 3 months of eating right and just walking daily i lost 45 pounds. Right now I'm at 85 lost with weights included.
Oh wow! I long would you walk for? I walk at a quick lace and work up a sweat but for some reason I don't think it's enough. I'm not giving up though!
I'm so sorry I'm just seeing this now,
I would walk anywhere from 30 minutes to an hour a day.
I think the big help was using an incline though.
I'd walk at a 3.5 pace at a 15.0 incline on the treadmill.
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I see plent of people walking around my neighborhood with baby strollers.0
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christinev297 wrote: »Walking 10 miles most days gives me roughly 1000 extra calories. Best thing ever!
10 miles is so insanely worth the 1000 calories... so I'm gonna go walk 10 miles now. Its pasta night and I'm hungry!0 -
christinev297 wrote: »Walking 10 miles most days gives me roughly 1000 extra calories. Best thing ever!
10 miles is so insanely worth the 1000 calories... so I'm gonna go walk 10 miles now. Its pasta night and I'm hungry!
That's for my particular stats though, yours may vary.
I'm 5"8, 143lbs age 43
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lthames0810 wrote: »Personally, based on how little difference it makes to my weight loss, I burn up very few calories with exercise, no matter how strenuous it is. If walking is convenient and you like it, there seems to me to be no reason to change it.
However...
Just today in my local newspaper there was an article about a number of people who lost significant weight since they began to use the relatively new commuter rail. The community where I live got a commuter train up and running about a year ago. If people's commutes run along a roughly north/south path, then this works for them somewhat, but bus transportation from the train stations to other destinations east or west can be sketchy. These train riders now bike (they say 200 bikes a day are taken on the trains now) or walk to and from the train stations and have unexpectedly lost weight and I mean something like 40 or 50 pounds over the past year. The article doesn't say whether these riders made any changes to their food intake.
This seems, at least on the surface, to fly in the face of the conventional wisdom that one's diet matters far more than one's activity for weight loss. Either way, I think walking is respectable exercise, no matter why you do it.
Ya, a friend of the family stays fit by biking to the train and then to work.
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My grandmother told me years ago that walking helped improve your bowels.0
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I usually only have about 30 minutes that I can get away from baby to exercise. In that time I'll usually go for a walk at a brisk pace. I usually only burn about 150 calories though. I'm curious if this is enough to see a difference. The walking has been paired with good nutrition. What has walking done for you?
You can sneak in plenty more walking - march in place! Jog in place! I do this while cooking at the stove, waiting for my washing machine to finish, brushing my teeth, while watching tv-get up and high knee jog in place during commercial breaks. Basically, you can find many times to 'walk' besides the actual outdoor walk.0 -
Try taking the baby for a walk after some water play. They tend to not get so crabby about sitting still and sometimes even sleep after they've had water play. That way, maybe you can walk for longer periods. Any time I need babies or toddlers to calm the heck down, I stick them in some water.
Walking helps you lose weight, tone up, work your heart a bit and get fresh air. Any kind of exercise helps you sleep better.
It's just an easy way to get a little exercise into your day. If you google it, you'll see many top hospitals listing the many benefits of walking. 0 -
atypicalsmith wrote: »My grandmother told me years ago that walking helped improve your bowels.
She's not wrong! Exercise is the best way to keep things moving in there!!
Did she call it her "daily constitutional"? All the old people said that when I was a kid. "I'm going out for my daily constitutional." Now, we walk. 0 -
Walking is great exercise. It's also a great destresser. I know you said the idea of running is scary but start small, really small. When I first started I couldn't run even a block without breaking out in a cold sweat and puffing like a steam train. Now I can manage to run three miles. It's surprising how fast your endurance builds and when you only have thirty minutes running will give you a stronger workout. Walking is definitely worth doing though.0
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@annetaryn you could also work in the 28 Day Squat Challenge around your baby's needs.0
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This is what it has done for me
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My first two were stroller babies. The little ones are so spoiled the expect to be carried everywhere. I blame myself...
If baby doesn't care to be in a stroller, get a backpack that fits well and take baby for longer walks or even hikes. I don't remember age cutoffs, but little babies should be carried in front, and older babies in back.
Google "baby-wearing". I swear it's like a religion to some folks.0 -
I disagree with those that say exercise is for fitness, not weight loss. A calorie burned has the same weight loss benefit as a calorie not consumed.0
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I have lost 5 lbs and 1.2% body fat by walking and watching my calories. My legs and booty seem to be getting more firm, and its only been 3 weeks! Although I went into a chocolate coma today and am too tired to take the dog for a walk tonight...0
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I usually only have about 30 minutes that I can get away from baby to exercise. In that time I'll usually go for a walk at a brisk pace. I usually only burn about 150 calories though. I'm curious if this is enough to see a difference. The walking has been paired with good nutrition. What has walking done for you?
I completely understand where you are coming from. I'm am a over the road team truck driver. I'm in a moving vehicle up to 20 hours a day. D.O.T. regulations require we take a 30 min break. So that is all the time I have outside the truck most days to really get my heart going. Just doing that small amount of physical activity and cleaning up my diet has helped me in huge ways. I also have a small stair stepper thing in the truck for bad weather and scary locations. You may want to start adding small intervals of sprints into your walk slowly to get more out of your 30 min window of time.0 -
Go here: http://darebee.com/ and find yourself an interesting free workout that you can do in the comfort of your own home. Everything there will be better than a brisk walk.0
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I'm with those who said strap the baby on and go walking. Check my profile pic <--- I'm a big fan of baby wearing.0
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There's a huge nature park near where I live (so big that most of the times you don't see anyone when walking around) and I've seen a lot of people there jogging (!) with a stroller. Not that I would recommendid it for you since you said your baby isn't much of a fan of being outside for too long - or maybe that changed since quite some time has gone by?
Walking is awesome. I like to do that on the weekends while I have other workouts during the week. Especially walking in nature is great for your equilibrium. Also helps with back problems.0 -
i would try body combat on youtube awesome workout burns twice many cals as walking0
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