Can you work out your whole body through power walking?

[jennifer_bloom]

I can’t find the gym at my vacation hotel so I’ve tried to lose weight through arm work outs and water aerobics and walking instead. Arm work outs can be done without weights, or you can just grab a heavy knapsack in one of your hands.

[IslaTheWitch]

Better would be nordic walking, but if you have no accessories with you, power walking with proper work of your arms should do.

If you have a sport watch (like garmin or something similar), you can set up the pace, and the watch will notify you when you slow down too much.

[KittygosMeoWW]

It’s a good way to start working out and build endurance without damaging your joints. Keep in mind you will have to walk a lot of miles and add diet changes to see real weight come off.

[KittygosMeoWW]

If you’re up for it jumping or hula hooping is a good way to get your heart rate up.

[jennifer_bloom]

I’m interested more in muscle contouring than cardio cause a fitness trainer told me muscles burn weight faster than cardio work outs. He said for every pound of muscle you gain, you burn an extra 100 calories at rest so 5 pounds of muscle makes you lose a pound a week without exercise.

[KittygosMeoWW]

That is correct! Building muscle helps so much. If that’s the case girl do a lot of body weight exercises. Use your own weight to help stimulate your muscles. Lunges, pushups, planks, and burpees are your best friends.

[CalmUntilAbused]

What do You mean by power walking? Walking itself is a good (most of the muscles in the body except arms take part in it), but relatively light exercise. However, You could significantly improve Your endurance with long walk at moderate to high walking speeds, and I think it might involve some weight loss if You do not overcompensate for the energy loss after these walks, but I think it's pretty inexact science. If You want bodybuilding (and I somewhat hope You don't), walking would be unlikely to help, but if You just want to keep fit (or slightly reduce Your weight) and boost Your endurance, long and somewhat exhausting walks will likely help.

[pascal_climbs]

Anything helps working out your whole body. Depending on what you do, you will put more focus on certain parts and less on others. For whole body on vacation, do walking and squatting for lower body, do core in your room and do arms an back (with some luck you fond some pull-up bar in your bathroom or in a park.

[exitseven]

There are lots of bodyweight exercises you can do. Set up two chairs and do dips to work your triceps. Push-ups and crunches for upper body. Maybe find something you can use as a chin bar. Squats with no weights are good. Use a broom instead of a bar.

[DryGermanGuy]

No. But if you have a pool available, try power swimming (two hours+). You will understand the next day how effective that was.

[Anonymous]

It's definitely better than doing nothing

[AnusNdaPainus]

Life is motion

[KittygosMeoWW]

I don't know why this made me giggle

[Opinion Owner]

@kitty I'm accidentally hilarious all of the time lol glad I'm good for something

[KittygosMeoWW]

Omg 😳