KunoichiEmi
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Does this club still exist?? Last post was Oct... i would love to join... all i'm suppose to do is walk!!! 
Walking Club
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mikitta
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I'm in for a walking club. I live out in the country, on a little one lane road a mile from the main road. I walk from my house to the main road and back.
For a while, I was doing this in 40 minutes (20 minute mile) then I stopped walking for a couple of months over the winter and lost endurance. I picked it back up yesterday and today and I'm doing a 24 minute mile.
Walking is such good exercise, and it doesn't cost anything beyond the price of a decent pair of shoes.
God Bless,
mik
For a while, I was doing this in 40 minutes (20 minute mile) then I stopped walking for a couple of months over the winter and lost endurance. I picked it back up yesterday and today and I'm doing a 24 minute mile.
Walking is such good exercise, and it doesn't cost anything beyond the price of a decent pair of shoes.
God Bless,
mik
Omega
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Hi Mik
It is my main form of exercise. I do quite a lot of walking every day and it really does make a difference to the effectiveness of my weightloss project.
As you say - it costs nothing except the price of a good pair of shoes. Unfortunately I keep wearing holes through my shoes! Still if I had paid for gym membership near here for the past 14 months I would have paid a fortune. And if I had then gone on the treadmill I would have worn out the shoes just the same.
Some more of my recent data (I record every step of the day so this is exercise walks plus steps incurred in day to day living).
07/04/2008 28,869 steps, 11.16 miles
08/04/2008 28,612 steps, 11.06 miles
09/04/2008 32,422 steps, 12.53 miles
10/04/2008 27,729 steps, 10.72 miles
11/04/2008 29,718 steps, 11.49 miles
It is my main form of exercise. I do quite a lot of walking every day and it really does make a difference to the effectiveness of my weightloss project.
As you say - it costs nothing except the price of a good pair of shoes. Unfortunately I keep wearing holes through my shoes! Still if I had paid for gym membership near here for the past 14 months I would have paid a fortune. And if I had then gone on the treadmill I would have worn out the shoes just the same.
Some more of my recent data (I record every step of the day so this is exercise walks plus steps incurred in day to day living).
07/04/2008 28,869 steps, 11.16 miles
08/04/2008 28,612 steps, 11.06 miles
09/04/2008 32,422 steps, 12.53 miles
10/04/2008 27,729 steps, 10.72 miles
11/04/2008 29,718 steps, 11.49 miles
mikitta
New member
Wow, you are a walking MASTER! I bow to you
I walked my usual 2 miles yesterday in the rain. I didn't walk today, but I did spend four hours cleaning out one of my flower beds, planting some flowers and getting some blueberry bushes planted too. The flower bed was entirely overgrown with crab grass. It was a struggle to get it all cleared out. But it was enjoyable and sparkpeople's exercise tracker says I burned around 1100 calories, so no complaints from me except from my aching muscles
I'll get in a walk tomorrow though, since I don't have any more flowers I can plant right now
God Bless,
mik
I walked my usual 2 miles yesterday in the rain. I didn't walk today, but I did spend four hours cleaning out one of my flower beds, planting some flowers and getting some blueberry bushes planted too. The flower bed was entirely overgrown with crab grass. It was a struggle to get it all cleared out. But it was enjoyable and sparkpeople's exercise tracker says I burned around 1100 calories, so no complaints from me except from my aching muscles
I'll get in a walk tomorrow though, since I don't have any more flowers I can plant right now
God Bless,
mik
Hey can I still join?
I have to pick up my cousin from the bus stop from now on, so thats a .25 mile walk...but I walk about 3 miles around the blocks in my neighborhood after school, and about a 1.5 miles after dinner
so thats almost 5 miles a day
I have to pick up my cousin from the bus stop from now on, so thats a .25 mile walk...but I walk about 3 miles around the blocks in my neighborhood after school, and about a 1.5 miles after dinner
so thats almost 5 miles a day
Omega
Moderator
We definitely want lots of new members. The more the merrier!
Mik - you will be pleased that you did the planting instead of walking when the flowers come out. We normally plant vegetables - but I must admit that I neglected our vegetables a bit last summer (I only watered them once a day in the dry weather instead of twice) as I was too busy walking. I have told my husband that we are planting less vegetables this year.
I do walk quite a lot. I find that I need to in order to get a normal rate of weight loss. I am lucky in that I am not currently working so I am able to spend quite a long time walking every day. I found it quite surprising how far I could walk by just building my distance up a bit at a time.
More pedometer readings:
12/04/2008 25,960 steps, 10.03 miles
13/04/2008 29,182 steps, 11.28 miles
Mik - you will be pleased that you did the planting instead of walking when the flowers come out. We normally plant vegetables - but I must admit that I neglected our vegetables a bit last summer (I only watered them once a day in the dry weather instead of twice) as I was too busy walking. I have told my husband that we are planting less vegetables this year.
I do walk quite a lot. I find that I need to in order to get a normal rate of weight loss. I am lucky in that I am not currently working so I am able to spend quite a long time walking every day. I found it quite surprising how far I could walk by just building my distance up a bit at a time.
More pedometer readings:
12/04/2008 25,960 steps, 10.03 miles
13/04/2008 29,182 steps, 11.28 miles