Odd question, if you do a lot of walking everyday do you include it in your training hours or schedule? I walk to and from work everyday which is 2.5 miles each way and I tend to walk at a moderate to fast pace. Some days I walk to the grocery store, dinner, etc as well which adds anywhere from anther 1-5 miles a day. I typically have not been counting it unless I go right into a workout after it and then I usually only count a mile of it. I ask because some of my runs late in the week I feel tired and I am guessing the 25+ miles of walking might come into play. Thoughts?
No. But I do walk a lot at work, so I can try and avoid sitting down all the time.
I would say standing in one spot is significantly more difficult than walking, people who have to stand around should count that as training.
Not unless you are walking 15 miles a day.
Even then I would probably only look at it for the calorie burn.
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Only fast paced hiking, which has some actual training benefits. Other walking is just bonus calorie burn. Sounds like you do enough to at least account for it. Realize that walking burns close to the same calories per mile that running does (but obviously is not equivalent to running). So brisk walking for 25 miles per week is another 2,500-3,000 calories – ballpark figure.
Why would you? So you can be like everyone else on ST and say you train 20+ hours a week?
No, not trying to say I train 20+ hours a week. Trying not to over train esp running training b/c I’m dealing with an IT Band issue caused from an ankle break and don’t want to over do it.
You should always factor things like that into how much training you can do. For me, I like to go out dancing a lot. But for training hours, I only count actual swim bike and run time. No weight training, stretching, massage, or sitting on the wall between a swim set. These are indirectly related to my purpose of counting my training hours. The recovery they might require is factored in separately.
I walk 'round about 1mi to/from the office every day and chalk it up to active recovery for the legs.
Your body will tell you if you are over training. Not some random number in your training log.
No. But I hear CapitanCanada counts WANKING as part of his training regiment,
I don’t count weekly training hours. It’s irrelevant.
I do a lot of dog walking but would not count that as exercise. My greyhound is so slow it is more like trudging.
You should always factor things like that into how much training you can do. For me, I like to go out dancing a lot. But for training hours, I only count actual swim bike and run time. No weight training, stretching, massage, or sitting on the wall between a swim set. These are indirectly related to my purpose of counting my training hours. The recovery they might require is factored in separately.
So you’re saying that, if you do 10 x 200m swimming on 3:00 coming in at 2:30, you only count it as 25:00 not 30:00??? Or if you do 8 x 400m running in 1:30/400 with 2:00 rest between each 400, then you only count it as 12:00??? That just does not seem right to me since no way you’d have gone that fast w/o the rest between repeats. Also, all top college swim and track programs count their training time in broad terms, e.g. 2 hrs AM and 2 hrs PM, which absolutely include the rest. Do whatever you want but I’m just saying this is what the top programs do:)
To the OP: No, I don’t count walking as a “workout” but do count it in my daily total of calories burned.
I only count walking for my IM training. I KNOW I’m gunna be walking at some point in an IM so it counts when I do it in training. For shorter races I don’t count it because I shouldn’t be walking in those races (but usually do walk anyway. Yes sports fans, Tridork is a useless old fat fk when it comes to tri…but at least I’m addicted to it!)
If I were planning on walking during a “race” I would count some of my walking.
Occasionally I have included specific walking in my schedule. Just for the fun of it try putting a treadmill at 15 degrees and getting up to about 4 mph (or better) . Your heart rate will get up there pretty quick. It won’t make you a better runner but it must be doing something.
My greyhound is so slow it is more like trudging.
Your dog is fucking with you.
if you schedule a walk then it is a workout
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This guy walks a 6 min/mile pace…
