Yesterday I got out walking on the street for the first time since I got to go to Florida in January. It has been way to cold here until now. It was a hard walk since it has been so long. When I walk I have a very quick, somewhat strange looking gate. It’s like a run walk. The tendon in the back of my right leg started to tighten up, so I jogged for a while. It got me thinking, which one was most efficient from a cardio stand point. I feel like whatever gets your heart rate up (here is where a cardio heart rate monitor comes in handy) is going to burn the most calories. Plus, I can go a lot further doing my speed walk, then I can jog. I looked on line for a clinical point of view and found a quote from Dr. Tim Church, Director of the Laboratory of Preventative Medicine at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center:
“If you weigh 150 pounds and walk 2 miles in 30 minutes you will burn 170 calories. If you jog 2 miles in 20 minutes then you will burn 230 calories. It’s really about speed. Most people don’t jog faster than they speed walk.”
I came away from this information feeling like I’m doing the best cardio I can with my speed walk. It really works my core and keeps my back limber because my hips are really rotating. It definitely gets my heart rate up, and I can go for 60 minutes without running out of gas..plus, I got some great vitamin D and a smile on my face just to be outside!
02/14/11 - Monday Workout:
Yoga- 90 minutes
02/14/11- Monday Food Diary:
Breakfast-
1 cup egg whites (120 cal)
2 pieces Ezekial brd with 2 tbl organic almond butter (260 cal)
1/4 cup mixed berries (30 cal)
Lunch-
Salad- 1 cup organic spinach, brocolli slaw, 1/4 sweet yellow pepper (35 cal)
1/2 turkey sandwich (2 oz) on whole wheat thin bun,low fat blue bell cheese (179 cal)
P.M. Snack-
8 oz fat free cottage cheese (90 cal)
16 no-salt roasted almonds ( 120 cal)
Dinner- Valentine Dinner at home
5.5 oz filet mignon (370 cal)
zuchinni, mushrooms, yellow squash ( 50 cal)
sweet potato, sprinkle of cinnamon, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter spray(90 cal)
Dessert-
low sugar chocolate mousse (150 cal)
TOTAL CALORIES- 1574
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