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Walking will help your heart and is a good way to improve base fitness, but generally speaking not a way to lose weight. Fundamentally, walking burns very few c
by ogre_codes 5y ago
Walking will help your heart and is a good way to improve base fitness, but generally speaking not a way to lose weight. Fundamentally, walking burns very few calories. To lose 50 pounds walking, you need to walk hours per day which isn't very practical.
That said, it can still work because ritualizing fitness also brings more awareness to other aspects of your life. When you are regularly working out (walking or otherwise), it can make you conscious of mealtime choices. You also are fundamentally not eating when you are out walking.
If you want to lose weight, you either need much more intense exercise or to figure out how to stop eating. Walking or other activity is still important, but it's not a "Weight loss" solution.
- bagacrap 5y agowhy is walking 90 minutes a day for a year impractical?
- ogre_codes 5y agoYou sleep for 8 hours. Another 2 hours is spent showering, prepping for sleep and waking up and using the bathroom during the day. So you have 14 hours left. If you work, you only have 6 hours left. Commute to work? 4-5 hours. Dishes, mowing the lawn, prepping and eating meals, studying for your next job advancement, housekeeping, laundry, etc etc... by the time you are done there isn’t a ton of free time in the day. Spending half of that free time on such a mundane and boring way to pass the time sounds truly impractical to me.