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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you so fixated on how other people get their exercise?  [/quote]

I had an injury/surgery and had to become a walker for a few months. I've gained weight! Still in better shape than all the walkers I see[/quote]

I see we are still struggling with the idea that weight gain comes [b]from a calorie surplus
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And that generally speaking you have no idea how in shape somebody is based on their physical appearance. [/quote]

Op here, yes controlling this is the best way to keep weight down. Thinking your getting any caloric burn benefit from walking is marginal at best.  [b]There is no cardio vascular benefit either.[/b] Women- Like my lovely wife :lol: who doesn't even need to lose 1 pound need to seek out a cardiovascular workout. ( 20 minutes daily of 80% /max heart rate) Whats the number 1 killer of women?? Heart disease!  My rehab from surgery has mostly been done near the bike/walk trail some fit bikers out here, almost 0 fit walkers.

Walking works if your old, have other physical ailments, or maybe if you speed walk..other than that I will save my walking shoes for when I am well over 80 but only after I try swimming :P [/quote]

The [b]things you believe are not true[/b].[/quote]

Like I said in my open "the way most people walk" as in 20 minute mile pace on flat trails doing 2/3 miles or even more.  This does not have any impactful calorie burn or cardio benefit.  Sure fresh air helps but do something more challenging to have a caloric burn ( if that is a goal) and all of us need some cardio.  The walking that I see people doing absolutely provides 0 cardio benefit.  I may wear my heart rate monitor on my next walk just to see how hard I would need to work to get to 100.[/quote]

You're still incorrect.  You're adamant, but you're wrong.  Being more adamant doesn't make you right.  Walking absolutely has cardiovascular benefit.  It improves circulation, it elevates the heart rate, and it is exercise.

You have some bug up your butt about high-impact exercise being the only "real" exercise, but you're wrong (and it's not hard to understand why you're recovering from an injury).  A person who walks a 20 minute mile pace on flat trails doing 2/3 of a mile is getting cardiovascular benefits from the exercise vs a sedentary person.  [/quote

[b]you have your own version of cardiovascular exercise. Circulation? [/b] I go by the American Heart Association.  its 20 minutes daily while maintaining 80% of your maximum heart rate. 
 Walkers do not get to this level.  Even speed walkers are probably in better shape so their heart rate stays lower. Maybe for some people walking qualifies as exercise but nobody should be banking on even getting the slightest cardiovascular benefits its nowhere near challenging enough.  Don't believe me? wear a smartwatch and get your heart rate up for 20 minutes[/quote]

You should google "vascular" before you demonstrate your ignorance saying that improved circulation is not a cardiovascular benefit.  You're just embarrassing yourself with every post.

Your poor wife.[/quote]

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