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08-23-2007, 02:31 PM
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Burning calories walking vs. running
A friend of mine told me that you would burn the SAME amount of calories walking 3 miles as you would jogging 3 miles.
Assume walk is at 16min/mile pace and jog is at 9min/mile, or whatever. My friend cannot be right, can he? If not, what is a good estimate of the ratio? 
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08-23-2007, 02:49 PM
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Re: Burning calories walking vs. running
Googled: Walking vs. Running
Here's the answer from Dr. Dean Ornish, a clinical professor of medicine at UC San Francisco: "All things being equal, you will burn more calories by running an hour than walking an hour. It is true that walking a mile will burn more calories then running a mile -- although it takes longer to do so. When you run a mile, you're burning mostly sugar, or carbohydrates, which is how your body gives you fast energy in bursts. When you walk a mile, it gives your metabolism time to switch from burning carbohydrates to burning fat." I don't feel like searching for it but if you google V02 max and calories burned you can probably find the formula you are looking for.
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08-23-2007, 03:47 PM
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Re: Burning calories walking vs. running
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They're almost the exact same. [/ QUOTE ] Does this depress anyone else?
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#5
08-23-2007, 03:58 PM
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Re: Burning calories walking vs. running
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[ QUOTE ] They're almost the exact same. [/ QUOTE ] Does this depress anyone else? [/ QUOTE ] It doesn't seem very strange to me. Low intensity, longer time = high intensity, shorter time.
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08-23-2007, 04:43 PM
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Re: Burning calories walking vs. running
It's depressing because after you run you think you've worked so hard, yet you have burned as many calories as the 80 year olds walking around the track at the local gym. :-(
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#8
08-25-2007, 05:19 PM
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Corroborative evidence
FWIW,
When I do my cardio i wear a heart monitor which, among other things, estimates the number of calories burned during the session. It takes into account weight, avg heart rate, and time. When I jog, I run an approx 3.5mi loop. Sometimes when it's hot or I'm hungover, I wind up jogging half and walking half. Sometimes I jog three min, walk three min, and repeat. At any rate (no pun intended), my total calories expended seem to be very similar whether I jog the whole distance or do some combination of walking and jogging.
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08-26-2007, 09:58 AM
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Re: Corroborative evidence
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FWIW, When I do my cardio i wear a heart monitor which, among other things, estimates the number of calories burned during the session. It takes into account weight, avg heart rate, and time. When I jog, I run an approx 3.5mi loop. Sometimes when it's hot or I'm hungover, I wind up jogging half and walking half. Sometimes I jog three min, walk three min, and repeat. At any rate (no pun intended), my total calories expended seem to be very similar whether I jog the whole distance or do some combination of walking and jogging. [/ QUOTE ] Your heart rate doesn't drop the second you stop jogging. If you are tired or it is hot out your recovery time is going to be slowed down and if you are really tired or overtrained it may not come down at all while you are moving. Those HRM are better off showing how much effort you expanded for a similar workout over time than in a strick count of calories. IE 2 months ago your normal route burned x calories, now it only burns x-y calories.
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