How many calories can be burned when walking?

How many calories can be burned when walking?

There is a lot of people and often goes on foot. The road for work, in school, in shop and back borrows sometimes till several hours a day. About advantage of foot walks for health the doctors say long ago, as well as that the certain number of calories is spent for them.

Together with food of people receives calories — the power equivalent of vital force. On them all food consumed during the day rashcheplyatsya. Then energy leaves on necessary affairs. Everyone, even the simplest action, forces the organism to spend from 10 kcal/hour. When the person sleeps, he spends energy too: 50-60 kcal/hour. It leaves for work of the brain and internals.

The most intensive expense of calories occurs when the person does hard manual work and active sports. Walking belongs to moderate loads of the organism therefore doctors recommend it to all those who for various reasons can't maintain difficult trainings.

Gradual loss of kilograms begins when the person passes not less than 10,000 steps a day. Also the pedestrian's weight is important, than it is more, that stronger burns calories and the person grows thin.

For improving effect it is necessary to pass on foot 6-8 km a day and to do it constantly.

At simple walk by the quiet step it is possible to spend from 50 kcal within 2 hours. If to be engaged in sports walking, 2000 kcal in 30 minutes are burned. If walk is followed by loadings: rises and descents from hills and hillocks, the game with animals or just active holiday, you will spend from 200 to 250 kcal/hour. Rise and descent on steps in case of refusal from use of the elevator will allow to burn up to 800 kcal/hour to you. If to make such loading daily, but natural, it is possible to lose in the month in weight and to support cardiovascular and respiratory systems. It is excessive to be zealous at such trainings isn't necessary, it is possible to put seriously, it is necessary to observe moderation. Also walk with pets is useful, it takes away from 280 kcal/hour. Simple homework, efforts in kitchen, for example, burn from 50 kcal for the hour. Washing of ware, cooking and cleaning with the vacuum cleaner promote loss of calories at women. It is easiest way to leave excess weight without visits of gym.

In total working on the house, it is possible to burn up to 500 kcal a day.

Also the sports connected with intensive, various walking and run are very useful. Skating and skis, it is possible to lose up to 800 kcal an hour, and jogging will take away up to 600 kcal/hour. The good effect of improvement gives swimming in the pool. It though doesn't belong to walking or run, but promotes continuous burning of calories and strengthening of all organism. For swimming it is spent from 500 kcal/hour. Walking is useful at many diseases as loading at it can be regulated independently. If you want to get used to foot walks, it is necessary to begin step by step, from 15-30 minutes a day. It is better to walk in the fresh air, in the park or just in the distance from roads. It is gradually necessary to increase amount of time for walking on foot up to 30-40 minutes. And then, when you will begin to enjoy, to finish till 1 o'clock daily. At first legs will ache a bit, but in the week - another everything will rise on the places and walking will begin to give you pleasure. Muscles will be tightened, more intensive metabolism and saturation of fabrics oxygen will bring new, healthier feeling of life. The main thing to make walking daily, then the advantage will be increased and will become obvious.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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