anybody ever take a fuckin’ walk anymore?
I live in Southern California in a pretty quiet suburb (well, quiet now that the end of the street has been blocked off due to last years sink holes that still haven’t been fixed) I usually take strolls around the neighborhood around midnight during the summer. Anybody else stroll for no reason during nice weather?
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grmpysmrf
Eh… I used to take jogs at night. I got hurt at work and pretty much ceased any kind of exercise possible, that being on of them. I’m on vacation this week and meant to actually go for a bike ride, but that doesn’t seem like it’s happening. My cat’s playing Anne Frank right now, literially. So while I hide her and everything related to her from the landlord, I can do a single thing, or go anywhere. Sign maybe.
I walk or ride my bike often.
Not so much this past month, since it’s been so hot every damn day, but often.
Love hiking, too.
Funny you should mention walking.
I’ve been wearing a pedometer for the last couple of weeks and monitoring the number of steps I take everyday as part of a fitness program that my employer is sponsoring. I average about 8000 steps per day, which is about 4 miles.
I don’t walk much around my suburban neighborhood too much, but I do walk in the Chicago Loop quite a bit. It’s about a mile from the train station to my office and I usually walk it both ways… taking various routes so I don’t get bored.
I do 20-30 minutes on an elliptical machine a couple of times a week while cranking up music that’s between 100-120 bpm. Not much of a view, but great Card-Vas workout.
There is a park about a mile from my house with a track that is a mile, so I’ve been trying to walk that a couple of times a week. I’ve been having to do it after sunset though as it has been too hot here during the day.
Sometimes I’ll go walk the trails around Stone Mountain, which is roughly 5 miles.
What neighborhood do you live in Chem, if you don’t mind me prying?
The Greenway up in Alpharetta/Roswell is awesome for walking and biking.
I’m in the Mountain Park/Lilburn area where Rockbridge Rd meets Hwy 78 behind the infernal Wal-mart. It is actually nice for the 4th of July as we can watch the fireworks from Stone Mountain wthout having to drive somewhere or fight with the crowds.
I used to walk a lot up until about the last year or so, when I became much more desk bound due to study. I never walked for exercise, more so for fresh air and thinking. Walking is crap for fitness, you need to run the bollocks off yourself to get fit. I’ve had sporadic fitness during college, largely down to playing (or not playing as the case might have been) indoor or astro turf footie. This past year while doing a Masters my contemporaries were somewhat boring and I could never find more than 3 or 4 peeps who were up for a game at any one time. My fitness is not great at all at present but I still have sufficient strength (though inside I’m probably crap). Whatever I end up doing next year I need to ensure I will know enough people who can be available for some regular footie. Yeah, why don’t I just join a team. Well I was on teams before but I got pissed off with all of them, especially with coaches who were not up to the job. It’s also better to have the option to not have to play for a while (for whatever reason) and there not be major repurcussions.
Sorry grmp, I nearly derailed your walking thread and stuck on it on the football field instead!
I’m in the Mountain Park/Lilburn area where Rockbridge Rd meets Hwy 78 behind the infernal Wal-mart. It is actually nice for the 4th of July as we can watch the fireworks from Stone Mountain wthout having to drive somewhere or fight with the crowds.
Ah, well much too far from Alpharetta and Roswell to take my suggestion.
i go for a walk every day. i also do tai chi and once/twice a week i do yoga. it sounds silly, but it makes me feel really good. working all the muscles and just feeling blood flow around me.
i like to walk to somber music. maybe its because of the way Washington State looks all the time haha. but Celtic Frost or really any Tom G project is nice walking music.
I walk more than a mile to work in the morning and after the gym, back to home, even in winter, and on good days, tend to walk after dinner. Every week day, however, I go for a run for about 45 minutes, in the gym.
After “Trash Humpers” I have no car so I ride my bike everywhere. I just moved yesterday so now it’s a 5-10 minute ride to work rather than a half hour (I was riding a minimum of 10 hours a week, that should be cut to 5 now). I walk pretty regularly too and look forward to walking around my new neighborhood (in glamorous Westminster, CA).
My day job is teaching yoga so I get quite a lot of that in too. My new roommate goes rock climbing so we’re making plans to hit that up together. Sounds like fun. Surfing is also next up in my queue to try.
Wow, I’m shocked, I thought this thread would get buried pretty quick! Glad so many people are digging it!
Although, I wasn’t really going for the “workout” angle just more of a “it’s a nice Night I’m gonna go soak it in!”
I go for a run for about 45 minutes, in the gym.
Oh yeah, I do this! only it’s the treadmill at home. When I get home from work I run. I only do this Mon.-Fri. though. Saturday I fall off the wagon eat garbage and be lazy!
For the last year or so I’ve been hitting the treadmill. Not really seeing the results I’m looking for anymore though so I’m trying to change it up. I started out at 12 minute miles for a half hour then a brisk 10 minute walk, and I Have worked my way up to a little under 10 minute miles with the same cool down walk.
the first 7-8 months I lost 40 pounds (6’2 240 lbs down to 6’2 200 pounds )but I now I’ve put back 15 of it. I can not break past the 200 pound mark. [pirate] My BMI index tells me I’ve got to be around 177lbs for me to be right smack in the middle of the healthy BMI. Right now I’m barely overweight according to the BMI.
So the last month or so I’ve been looking more at trying to maintain my target heart rate rather than go for speed. So Now I’m going an hour at 150-168 beats per minute. (start out at a 10 minute mile pace and get my heart going and then drop it down to a 12 minute mile and decrease the speed as my heart rate begins to beat harder than the Target heart rate) But I think this is the reason I’m putting weight back on so it looks like I’m gonna have to go back to 30 minute fast pace.
My caloric intake is right around 2,000 calories a day Mon.-Fri. and probably around 3,000-3,500 (mostly sugar and fast foods)on the weekends(I don’t work out on the weekends)
Read on the internet last night that the Target Heart Rate zone is a myth and I’m starting to believe it, because even though I go an hour it doesn’t seem to be all that hard of a workout plus I’m gaining weight back.
I’ve been wearing a pedometer
How do those these things work?
Sorry grmp, I nearly derailed your walking thread and stuck on it on the football field instead!
No problem, I’m guilty of derailing many a thread and I encourage others to do so that way I’m not the only one…plus it just feels like more of a natural conversation to me.
Late,
grmpysmrf
I have a gym in my house so I usually use a treadmill and listen to my iPod.
But I often walk the neighbourhood late at night - there is a great walking track along the railway in Brighton that goes through some public parks which look quite stunning at night.
I particularly like to go out and walk at about 10:30 on a Monday or Tuesday night when the streets are deserted. And if it’s misty and foggy (which it often is as I live near the beach) then that makes it even better.
There’s a neighborhood behind my house. The street behind me is a circle. Good for jogging. And there’s a middle school pretty close with a track. Haven’t been there in ages though.