Hives are pretty great. Good call.
do you even work out, and making fun of those, who are not as great as you think you are, does not count.
I walk/run/hike 30-40 miles a week depending on weather.
is walking, working out?
Are you under the impression the difference between total energy burned between walking a mile and running a mile is significant? Work = force * distance, bro.
you're forgetting intensity, bro. running a mile definitely burns more calories than walking it. tell me you can figure that part out.
in case you can't:
- http://www.active.com/walking/articles/running-versus-walking-which-burns-more-calories
- http://www.runnersworld.com/peak-performance/running-v-walking-how-many-calories-will-you-burn
- http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/expert.q.a/09/23/run.walk.mile.jampolis/
- etc...
Well, your very first article falls into the biggest fallacy in this discussion which is false equivalencies. Yes, running for 20 minutes burns more calories than walking for 20 minutes. Obviously. That is also not what I said: I'm talking about the same distance, not the same amount of time. Running for 20 minutes covers a further distance than walking for 20 minutes.
You also are missing the word "significant" in my statement. I acknowledge running 1 mile at 6mph, for example, burns slightly more calories than walking 1 mile at 3.5mph. By my fitness wrist thing, personally it puts a difference of about 15 calories between the two activities,
for me. Not a huge difference.
We also get into the discussion of how many of those calories in each activity are burned in each AS A RESULT OF THE PHYSICAL ACTIVITY and how many are burned as a result of simply being alive, awake, breathing, etc for the period of time in question. We also border on discussions of how each person's fitness level is different (a jaded level runner's body doing a 4 mile run 6mph is going to respond very differently than someone who never runs and does the same thing and is probably huffing for air the entire way which actually in a perverse way require more calories to operate the lungs in that situation) and calorie counts are going to be estimates at best outside of a lab.
So, yes, I stand by the idea that the calorie reduction between running and walking is not so significant that walking does not constitute exercise as a result.
