Walking for health

Bitstring <[email hidden]>, from the wonderful person
Adrian Tupper <[email hidden]> said

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I'm sure that a while back there was a figure
being bandied around that 20 minutes brisk walking
per day was enough to keep you fit.

I now read that 10,000 paces per day is what is needed.

I wondered how much 10,000 paces was and so I counted the
number of steps from my house to my work. Well, I lost
count a few times but I guess it was 2,400 and it took almost
24 minutes. The maths is simple, I walk 100 paces per
minute.

Sooooo.... 10,000 paces will take 100 minutes. That's five
times the old estimate. There really can't be many people
who walk for 100 minutes per (working) day. Are there?

10k paces = 5 miles (Mile - from Latin for thousand (mille), because
they counted two steps (left, right) to a pace).

Yes, I walk 5 miles a day (on average). I used to do it around the
office/factory, now I do it around Shropshire. However medical opinion
still seems to be that 20 minutes is enough, as long as you get your
heart rate up. I do my 8km (I'm actually metricated) because I enjoy it.

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Adrian Tupper said:

I'm sure that a while back there was a figure
being bandied around that 20 minutes brisk walking
per day was enough to keep you fit.

I now read that 10,000 paces per day is what is needed.

I wondered how much 10,000 paces was and so I counted the
number of steps from my house to my work. Well, I lost
count a few times but I guess it was 2,400 and it took almost
24 minutes. The maths is simple, I walk 100 paces per
minute.

Sooooo.... 10,000 paces will take 100 minutes. That's five
times the old estimate. There really can't be many people
who walk for 100 minutes per (working) day. Are there?

Do you have unusually long legs? <g>

Is that figure for 10000 paces meant to be just "formal" walking, or
to include all paces taken during the day? I could quite easily
believe that someone who was generally quite active during the day -
at work, at home, round the supermarket etc. - could make up 100
minutes worth of walking in combination with a morning or evening
stroll.

I reckon I probably do a good few hundred steps up and down the stairs
every day with the number of things I forget...

Adrian Tupper said:

I'm sure that a while back there was a figure
being bandied around that 20 minutes brisk walking
per day was enough to keep you fit.

I now read that 10,000 paces per day is what is needed.

I wondered how much 10,000 paces was and so I counted the
number of steps from my house to my work. Well, I lost
count a few times but I guess it was 2,400 and it took almost
24 minutes. The maths is simple, I walk 100 paces per
minute.

Sooooo.... 10,000 paces will take 100 minutes. That's five
times the old estimate. There really can't be many people
who walk for 100 minutes per (working) day. Are there?

I think the 20 minutes a day is accurate if you're, say, walking to
work or walking the dog. I believe the 10k paces is for those who walk
a lot in their work but only from this point in the office/factory to
that point and back again many times - those who don't walk far enough
to raise their heart rate.

Justin.

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from Jim Millen contained the following:

Quoted message said:

Is that figure for 10000 paces meant to be just "formal" walking, or
to include all paces taken during the day? I could quite easily
believe that someone who was generally quite active during the day -
at work, at home, round the supermarket etc. - could make up 100
minutes worth of walking in combination with a morning or evening
stroll.

It's quite easy. You can do 4-6 k without even thinking about it. So
you just need around 2-3 miles in the evening.

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Adrian Tupper said:

I wondered how much 10,000 paces was

A leaflet I saw recently, describing some of these "healthy walks"
equated 1 mile to 2400 paces. So one pace = about 26 inches (or 67
cms), obviously a single pace, not the double paces which many of us
learned when practising micro-navigation in the mist.

--
Pete Bland

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Quoted message said:

I'm sure that a while back there was a figure
being bandied around that 20 minutes brisk walking
per day was enough to keep you fit.

I now read that 10,000 paces per day is what is needed.

Adrian

Could it be a bit like the advice to eat "5 a day" portions of fruit, veg
etc.

--
M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm

"Jim Millen" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

Is that figure for 10000 paces meant to be just "formal" walking, or
to include all paces taken during the day? I could quite easily
believe that someone who was generally quite active during the day -
at work, at home, round the supermarket etc. - could make up 100
minutes worth of walking in combination with a morning or evening
stroll.

They gave out free pedometers to everyone where I work a while ago but
most people found they didn't work too well at recording paces if you
were say walking a few paces backwards and forwards to move things from
one place to another. You need to be walking along properly for them to
be accurate. You can rack up a fair number of steps just by sitting
down and shaking them though. (Or if that's too much like hard work get
someone to shake it for you).

Following up to Adrian Tupper

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Sooooo.... 10,000 paces will take 100 minutes. That's five
times the old estimate. There really can't be many people
who walk for 100 minutes per (working) day. Are there?

the postman?

I don't think 20 minutes walking a day will get anyone that fit.
Running for a hour, maybe.
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The Reids said:

I don't think 20 minutes walking a day will get anyone that fit.

Not /that/ fit, no, but all things are relative and if you normally only
walk between the bedroom, bathroom, garage, car, car park, desk, car
park, car, garage, kitchen, TV, bathroom, bedroom then it's about 15
minutes more than you're used to, and that'll be a (relatively) good thing.

Pete.
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In message <[email hidden]>, GSV Three Minds in a Can
<[email hidden]> writes

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However medical opinion still seems to be that 20 minutes is enough, as
long as you get your heart rate up.

I think that's the key issue. I need to walk very fast on the flat to
have any effect but going up a hill soon gets things moving.

--
Goalie of the Century

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Clinch) said:

The Reids said:

I don't think 20 minutes walking a day will get anyone that fit.

Not /that/ fit, no, but all things are relative and if you normally
only walk between the bedroom, bathroom, garage, car, car park, desk,
car park, car, garage, kitchen, TV, bathroom, bedroom then it's about
15 minutes more than you're used to, and that'll be a (relatively) good
thing.

It'll be a bit good for you in the sense that if you walk for 20
minutes then you'll be working off excess calories etc; but if you are
just strolling and don't get your pulse up and your circulation going,
then it will have no significant benefit to the cardiovascular system. You
need to do _strenuous_ exercise (enough to leave you a little out of
breath) for about twenty minutes to get fit in that sense.

--
Vince

The Reids said:

Following up to Adrian Tupper

Quoted message said:

Sooooo.... 10,000 paces will take 100 minutes. That's five
times the old estimate. There really can't be many people
who walk for 100 minutes per (working) day. Are there?

the postman?

Ha! On a rural round no chance, they drive anywhere that is further
than ten feet! However in a big urban office like mine it is dead easy
to get the miles in, both inside and out on delivery.

Quoted message said:

I don't think 20 minutes walking a day will get anyone that fit.
Running for a hour, maybe.

The old advice used to be to do excersise that elevated your heart
rate for twenty minutes a day so *brisk* walk was OK for that. Running
for an hour every day will get you bloody fit for running for an hour.
But you don't need to be *that* fit for it to have health benefits.
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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AndyP contained the following:

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You can rack up a fair number of steps just by sitting
down and shaking them though.

So, wear them on your wrist? ;-)

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Following up to Phil Cook

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Running
for an hour every day will get you bloody fit for running for an hour.

It got my not quite bloody fit for running for a hour
e.g well down the field and never breaking the hour for 10 miles
(61 minute "P.B."😉 :-(
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In message <[email hidden]>, Adrian Tupper
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

I'm sure that a while back there was a figure
being bandied around that 20 minutes brisk walking
per day was enough to keep you fit.

I now read that 10,000 paces per day is what is needed.

I wondered how much 10,000 paces was and so I counted the
number of steps from my house to my work. Well, I lost
count a few times but I guess it was 2,400 and it took almost
24 minutes. The maths is simple, I walk 100 paces per
minute.

Sooooo.... 10,000 paces will take 100 minutes. That's five
times the old estimate. There really can't be many people
who walk for 100 minutes per (working) day. Are there?

At a yard, or nearly so, per pace, 10,000 paces is 5 to 6 miles. 100
minutes is not too far off for this.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

Adrian Tupper said:

I'm sure that a while back there was a figure
being bandied around that 20 minutes brisk walking
per day was enough to keep you fit.

I now read that 10,000 paces per day is what is needed.

Treat it the same as any "public health" information coming from the
government, like that 5 vegetable per day nonsense, and ignore it.

S.

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Stewart Robert Hinsley said:

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At a yard, or nearly so, per pace, 10,000 paces is 5 to 6 miles. 100
minutes is not too far off for this.

or in Roger's case, about an hour ;-)

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The Reids said:

Following up to Phil Cook

Quoted message said:

Running
for an hour every day will get you bloody fit for running for an hour.

It got my not quite bloody fit for running for a hour
e.g well down the field and never breaking the hour for 10 miles
(61 minute "P.B."😉 :-(

Precisely: it got you fit for running for an hour. To get fit for
running longer distances or running the distance you cover in an hour
more quickly you have to do other knds of training. Endurance and
Fartlek. My PB for 10 miles was 23:10.....

.......on a bike :-)
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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"Adrian Tupper" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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I'm sure that a while back there was a figure
being bandied around that 20 minutes brisk walking
per day was enough to keep you fit.

I now read that 10,000 paces per day is what is needed.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if it amounts to much the same thing.
The 20 minutes a day guideline is a perfectly good one, provided the
walk is aerobically challenging. To be aerobically challenging you need
to be slightly puffing rather than strolling along easily. This helps
to strengthen the cardiovascular (heart and lungs) system and will
strengthen leg muscles as a sideline. For upper body strength invest in
a couple of tins of baked beans or similar and use them as weights.
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