Man of Honour
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Obese. Obese with gains
The best kind of obesity
What is your BMI?
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The best kind of obesity
10 miles isn't that far though, you just need time to do it which most people don't unless on Holiday.
Soldato
Having a decent pair of shoes/trainers is a massive help. After a few miles in crap shoes your feet will probably be in bits already.
100%, also socks. I've met people hiking in good shoes or boots and cheapo socks and they suffer for it!
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Its about 3.5 hours, if you don't work or are on holiday as you mentioned its doable i guess.
It will do, the biggest shift is going from sedentary to like doing that... but the standard (perhaps slightly arbitrary) advice is 10,000 steps which is like 5 miles a day (though that does include walking around the house, office etc. which can always add a chunk to it which you can see if you carry your phone everywhere).
You can just throw in additional little changes, like if in London get off at an earlier station and walk a bit further to work, walk to the shops instead of taking your car (which perhaps means more trips), could even get one of those old-lady bags on wheels things.
Also look at doing squats, if you're heavy and you've not walked much then you do want to build up the leg muscles a bit/try to avoid strains/injuries etc. so just gradually increase the distance you walk and build strength. Random things like taking the stairs instead of the lift in say an office block or apartment block if you're only a few floors up, or indeed walking up escalators instead of standing can help there to.
Essentially anywhere where there is an opportunity to get in a little bit of exercise even if it's just for a minute can be helpful.
Quite doable in 2.5 hours even, especially if not carrying any weight, but it doesn't need be all at once. A dog owner walking a dog 2 or 3 times a day + adding in all the other steps they take could well end up doing 20,000 steps or approximately 10 miles.
Man of Honour
Uther is retired so not a problem.
Soldato
Like somebody said in the weight loss thread, 'walking is an underrated exercise'. I'm walking between 20 & 30km a day, and for quite a bit of that I'm pushing heavy hospital beds around too. The weight is dropping off me.
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I also do 30 mins walk every lunch break to get out the house and build the steps up. 10k most days. Clears the head too.
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Mine says, 'Unexpected item in the bagging area.'
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Surprised noones gone with the old 'no coach parties'
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Soldato
10 miles is easy. Being retired helps! I split it up into several 1-2 mile walks thoughout the day.
Commissario
Once you get into the habit of walking, it’s easy. When I worked in Ipswich, I’d get in nice and early and walk all the way up and down the waterfront three times, then walk up and along the high street before going into the office. That was pretty much my full five miles. If I didn’t do it, I got very restless.
Once you get out of the routine, it’s very difficult to get back into it.
Once you get out of the routine, it’s very difficult to get back into it.