Power Walking

[stewart38]

Anyone done this ?

I went for my first ‘Power walk’ yesterday with work colleague back and forth over a few bridges over the Thames in London

It wasn’t a ‘Power walk’ ( I assume that’s walking fast or faster then you would normally walk and ‘stretches you’ ?) . I was walking at normal pace (about 3 miles)

Of again today with a work colleague to walk 1.5 miles there and back to where I got fancy dress costume from, ive got the added burden of carrying said costume, will see how it goes

Anyone do this to help them get fitter ?

[LMC]

I walk 2-3 miles most weekdays - to and from the station/office rather than taking the tube.

It definitely makes a difference to my fitness - although not to my pocket as I've broken my New Year's Resolution and spend the tube fare on a cappucino most mornings

I like the thinking time too

[Daisy Chain]

Has anyone got a picture in their mind of an Olympic athlete in very short shorts wiggling his bum in an exaggerated manner?

Daisy

(A Traumatised Little FLower)


.............oh. Just me then.

[whitetiger1518]

I prefer climbing the 8 flights to my office - I generally attempt 10 mins as a maximum for an aim time, this gives me knackered knees but an incredible sense of achievement (also doesn't leave me gasping for breath when the FireAlarm goes off )

Alternatively Intensive Shopping [3 times round the centre of Glasgow or more] (weekends only ) - this gives my bank card a dose of shock therapy at the same time

Cheers
Witetiger

[JonD]

I'm not a fitness trainer but I did a lot of "tabbing" in the Army - it's good fitness training. I also understand that you tend to stay in the "fat burning zone" so it's good for controlling weight (not that I was concerned with that in the "good old days"). Of course, we used to carry a lot of weight which made it a bit different from a walk to the office.

I think "power walking" has a lot going for it. If you don't push too hard you don't get all sweaty and horrible on the way into work but you still get your pulse rate up to a useful level for a decent amount of time. You can always stretch it out a bit on the way home; that'll improve fitness more and help to get rid of any frustrations from work.

[Beowulf]

I used to be a very fast walker. Would walk miles and miles and as such I was trim and lean.

I stopped walking quite so much and I put the weight on.. which made excessive walking difficult.. which meant I walked less.. which put the weight on.. Eventually I balanced out.

Then "recently" I damaged my shin muscles I can walk but at a ponderously slow pace (at least to how I USED to walk) needless to say.. the weight is coming on again.

Walking is a great low impact exercise and requires no reall planning or forethought.. Just get off the bus/train etc one stop earlier etc.

Just be careful not to over exert yourself. take it from me .. you don't want shin splints

[under par]

Anyone done this ?

Out of London this is done in green fields and is called GOLF.

[dave the scaffolder]

Out of London this is done in green fields and is called GOLF.

Do you play golf then?????????????????

I thought you spent all of your time making costumes

XXX XX DTS Dave

[Nessiemonster]

I walk 2-3 miles every day (round trip to/from work). I find it helps maintain my fitness. I haven't been able to do it much for a while, for a number of reasons, and feel my general sense of health and wellbeing has suffered as a result. Keep it up!

[Chicklet]

Try walking in MBT Trainers, I did a wee thread on them a few months ago but am too numpty to link.
After extended test I can report that I still wear mine three or four times a week, they are by far my favourite and most comfortable footwear and my calves no longer actually wobble

[Beowulf]

my calves no longer actually wobble

Oh My calves , thighs and shins no longer wobble either.. they're rock hard. That's the problem!

Power walking 3 miles twice a day , 5 days a week and then doing the occasional 10+ mile Tour de Aberdeen on a weekend, probably overdid things on the leg front.

You can have too much of a good thing you know

[Gojive]

Power walking 3 miles twice a day , 5 days a week

I tried that, but after day three I was 18 miles from home! I thought sod this for a game of marching soldiers, and caught the next bus back

[Beowulf]

I tried that, but after day three I was 18 miles from home! I thought sod this for a game of marching soldiers, and caught the next bus back

Thanks for making me inhale my coffee and nearly snort it out my nose again! Can't rep you.. seems I've repped you enough already

[Daisy Chain]

Out of London this is done in green fields and is called GOLF.

Golf. A good walk spoiled.

Daisy

(A Philistinic Little FLower)