Re[2]: [at-l] training

[tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us (Thomas McGinnis)]

     This is a really great post, too, though!
     But one "whoops" I have to correct is in the "calorie burning" 
     department. When you move -- to breath, walk, pick up a small car and 
     move it between two light posts, whatever -- you burn energy -- 
     calories. If you move SLOW enough (like walking), you burn fat. If you 
     require QUICK!!! energy, you burn glycogen (stored on muscles or in 
     your liver), either aerobically (running) or anaerobically (all-out 
     sprinting). The more efficient your fatburning system is, the longer 
     you can reserve muscle glycogen for harder efforts (like the end of a 
     marathon). And if you want to burn fat, you MUST go SLOWWWWWWWWWW.
     
     Sloetoe
     (who owes himself a couple of fatburners (slow runs).)


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Subject: Re: [at-l] training
Author:  Delita Wright <delita@mindspring.com> at ima
Date:    7/26/99 6:59 PM


>Between the miserable weather and a round of Doxycyclene, I've done more 
>walking than running lately. I usually go with hand weights or my hiking 
>poles. Should I add ankle weights to up the workout? If so, what will I 
>achieve?
>
>Thanks-
>Give Me Chocolate
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Oddly, I just this minute finished reading the chapter "Will Walking Make 
Me Fit" in Covert Bailery's _Smart Exercise_ and put it down to read your 
email...   (wooOOOooo....)
     
To summarize:  Yes, going with hand weights or your poles could make the 
difference.  Put on your backpack with some weight in it to really do it.
     
The idea is that normal walking pace is barely aerobic for most folks, but 
if you add in weight, or poles, you are using more muscles so you get more 
of a workout - and it can move you are enough up the aerobic scale to do 
some good.
     
Walking does work (any way you do it) but the milder it is, the more you 
have to do to get the effect.  So adding poles/weights gets your more for 
your minutes.
     
I have read also that wrist and ankle weights can (in some people) throw 
their body enough out of balance enough that they do damage rather than 
good.  I would assume this doesn't apply to you - but for me, I think I 
will stick with the backpack and poles.
     
Also, pushing you up a notch aerobically will cause you to burn fat, not 
just calories (calories burned are about the same either way).  Which of 
course I need, but judging from how you look in your emails, you don't. ;-) 
But maybe someone else wanted to know.....
     
Wonder what kind of geek a look like walking around Chapel Hill with my 
backpack and soon-coming poles?
     
Delita
     
     
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