Cool. I'm doing the 100km Thames Path Challenge on Saturday/Sunday this week. I'd rather be on my bike!
I have started doing a lot more walking recently, in the past month and a half I have done just under 150 miles and I have lost a lot of body fat and a bit of weight. I am finding that walking is toning my body much more than cycling has, I have lost more body fat / weight in the last month and a half than I ever have in the past 8 years of cycling so I shall be trying to keep it up.
How far do you walk at any one time?
Fantastic photos here, some of you are very lucky to live where you do, very envious.
I do a little walking and always enjoy it and I do find it helps with weight loss as I think you can plateau if only doing one activity. I walk in either the Peak district or North Wales but often just round where I live. I like looking for interesting spots on maps and digging them out, I found a motte and bailey castle recently about three miles from where I live which I knew nothing about.
I am beginning to think about organising another forum walk after reading these posts!
I went for a 6-miler yesterday and can feel that it activated muscles that 190 miles of cycling in Scotland last week didn't do much for.
A physio told me the primary muscle for cycling is your Quads his reasoning was a bit iffy as I always think it is your hamstring. Either way you are working one muscle more than the other. When I got a bit of arthritis in one knee years ago I decided to increase the cycling to keep fit for rugby but when I broke from the scrum I struggled to the next breakdown. My legs felt burnt out for a few minutes so I bought a strider type machine which I thought mimicked running it did the trick. Although I was still shoot at rugby at least I could be shoot close to the action!!I am beginning to think about organising another forum walk after reading these posts!
I went for a 6-miler yesterday and can feel that it activated muscles that 190 miles of cycling in Scotland last week didn't do much for.
I know some people say that being walking fit does not necessarily mean you will be better on a bike, but I do think they can go hand in hand with each other and compliment each other and so aid in better fitness and lower weight
I seem to get fitter from cycling i.e. I recover much quicker now after climbing up a big hill but I just dont seem to get any thinner.