worked off lots of calories by.....
tonilizzy88
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walking on an incline on the treadmill at the gym. normally ill run for 25 min with a few minutes in between to catch my breath and burn around 200 cal. today i decided to walk on an incline of 11 and speed of 6.0 for 30 min and burnt a wopping 320 calories. ill b keeping up my running but 2-3 times a week i shall be walking up that steep hill 
my *kitten* is hurting a little now lol and i sweated loads to.
my *kitten* is hurting a little now lol and i sweated loads to. 0
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A little incline goes a long long way!0
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NIce! Inclines really make you dig deep and work hard! Hope your rear don't hurt too much tomorrow! haha0
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Way to go! I bet your butt hurts in that good, "I'm being lifted," way, right?0
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Wow. I have bad legs, but 6.0 isn't a walk for me, its sprinting as fast as I can.0
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It's all about the angle
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6 is a run for me, too. Maybe OP means kms?0
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crap you can walk at a speed of 6?!?! I start joggin at like 4 lol and no way in hell could I do that at an 11 incline! Good job!0
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I am incapable of walking slower than 4.0. The trainer at the gym is like "you need to cooldown" and I just think "How the heck do you walk this slowly without it making you feel insanely bored and impatient!!!".crap you can walk at a speed of 6?!?! I start joggin at like 4 lol and no way in hell could I do that at an 11 incline! Good job!
6 is getting fast though, and at 6.5 I have to run or sort of "hop skip jump walk" :P
I normally walk at 5 (although my walking app seems to think my max walking speed when trying to speedwalk is 9mph!!! Insane! I wonder if the accelerometer fudged out there...)0 -
I am incapable of walking slower than 4.0. The trainer at the gym is like "you need to cooldown" and I just think "How the heck do you walk this slowly without it making you feel insanely bored and impatient!!!".crap you can walk at a speed of 6?!?! I start joggin at like 4 lol and no way in hell could I do that at an 11 incline! Good job!
6 is getting fast though, and at 6.5 I have to run or sort of "hop skip jump walk" :P
I normally walk at 5 (although my walking app seems to think my max walking speed when trying to speedwalk is 9mph!!! Insane! I wonder if the accelerometer fudged out there...)
Are you freakishly tall with giraffe legs or something? lol 6.0 is almost a spring for me, at 5'2".0 -
I wish I had girraff legs
I have short stocky legs alas...
I think I am just a naturally impatient person, a slow amble feels torturous to me, if I am moving forward I want to go quickly and get where I am going (even though on a treadmill I am not actually going anywhere) just feels unnatural to me to walk slowly (although I have a tall male friend who finds my walking slow)... plus I'm pretty heavy so I have momentum on my side.0 -
Somebody told me to try this as well and I was amazed by the difference in calorie burn. Although I have to agree a 6 is crazy fast to walk. I currently walk at a 15 incline, slowly worked my way up from a 12 and walk at 3.6mph0
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I wish I had girraff legs
I have short stocky legs alas...
I think I am just a naturally impatient person, a slow amble feels torturous to me, if I am moving forward I want to go quickly and get where I am going (even though on a treadmill I am not actually going anywhere) just feels unnatural to me to walk slowly (although I have a tall male friend who finds my walking slow)... plus I'm pretty heavy so I have momentum on my side.
I'm a very very impatient, hurricane-ish person too. But 3.6 is my "fast walk" speed and 6.0 is my regular running speed and I get up to 6.8 when I'm doing speed intervals.0 -
I wish I had girraff legs
I have short stocky legs alas...
I think I am just a naturally impatient person, a slow amble feels torturous to me, if I am moving forward I want to go quickly and get where I am going (even though on a treadmill I am not actually going anywhere) just feels unnatural to me to walk slowly (although I have a tall male friend who finds my walking slow)... plus I'm pretty heavy so I have momentum on my side.
I just realized you're in the UK. Are you talking miles per hour or km per hour?0 -
Miles.
Metric is lame :P0 -
I love walking on inclines! My neighborhood is super hilly, so when I take my puppy on her walks I definitely feel the burn
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When I'm on a treadmill I always run the Hills program, it's great. To me, a steep incline burns much more efficiently than a faster speed. You start running too fast, and it stops being an aerobic workout, and starts being an anaerobic workout.0
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If you were going 6.0 mph, then you weren't walking. You can't cover a mile in 10 minutes without running. Walking a mile in 15 minutes is solid a walking pace.0
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If you were going 6.0 mph, then you weren't walking. You can't cover a mile in 10 minutes without running. Walking a mile in 15 minutes is solid a walking pace.
That's what I was thinking. I can walk faast, but when I'm over 4.2 mph, I start to trot. 6mph is a run for most humans.0 -
im doing walking at 6km and i covered just over 3 km in the 30 min i run at 9km i must admitt 6km is a fast walk but nowere near running for me however i am 5ft 8 0
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