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Walk To Get Fit - Calculate Your Pace

 

Distance Calorie Calculator

Use this calculator to show how many calories you are burning on your walk, depending on your weight, distance and pace.
If you know how many minutes you have walked, but not the distance, this calculator can estimate your distance and calories burned.
These calculator scripts were written by Wendy Bumgardner and Will Glessner. The calculator of calories burned per mile is based on MET research - metabolic equivalents of various activities.

Walking Calculator

how to train

Walk To Get Fit - Training

 

Training Methods

Form: It doesn't matter whether someone is swinging his or her shoulders or walking straight from the hip, as long as they're comfortable and have the right intensity. Hoffmann, however, says it's best to have elbows bent at a 90 degree angle, the arms swinging freely so that they come up to about chest level, the fingers curled into a loose fist, and the feet moving forward at a brisk pace. "If your hands are just dangling at the sides, you're probably not walking fast enough to get any heart rate increase," says Hoffmann, who notes that the extremely sedentary and overweight can begin an exercise plan with a stroll and work up to a quicker pace.

Mileage: Many guidelines give recommendations on time and intensity, so distance may not necessarily be a factor. On the other hand, some walking events and campaigns with specific distance requirements have been known to be very motivating. For example, Corbin says children have loved digital pedometer programs, which have enabled them to keep track of steps during the day. Students who take a certain number of steps a day for at least five days a week for several weeks receive a President's Council Activity Award. Volkssporting groups have also given honors to walkers of all ages that have achieved particular distances.

Walking training schedules:

It is important to begin each walk at an easy comfortable pace and only increase effort once the body and muscles have warmed-up. Difficult terrain or travelling uphill and downhill also affects your overall speed.
Beginners' training schedule:It is really beneficial to incorporate other exercises and activities into your training, choose from below a training schedule to suit your ability. And don't forget to check you have the equipment and kit you need for your challenge.

routes

Walk To Get Fit - Routes

 

Walking route: Tyne Riverside country park, Newcastle

A wet and wild hike through a glorious country park that's guaranteed to put the colour back in your cheeks.

Directions
1. Take the bridleway marked to Throckley from just north of the first car park reached as you enter the park. Continue on the gravelled path which passes under a very large pylon.
2. At the junction turn left on to the lane and walk down to the row of cottages. Turn right on to the road behind the cottages and follow it as it bends left.
3. Turn on to the Wylam Waggonway and follow it for about 1.5km. You will pass a golf course on your right.
4. At the end of the golf course you will find Stephenson's Cottage on your right. Immediately opposite the cottage go through a gate into a picnic area by the river. Head towards the river.
5. Turn left into the Northumberland Wildlife Trust nature reserve. Follow the path alongside the river. At the end of the reserve follow a path by the river if you can, but if it is slippery or overgrown rejoin the Waggonway, turning right on to it and following it for a short distance until you have passed the golf course.
6. Turn right on to the riverside footpath and follow the river downstream. Continue alongside the river back towards the walk start.
7. Turn away from the river to go behind the visitor centre and then through the car park of the Keelman's pub to find the start point.

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Walk To Get Fit - UK Walking Maps

 

walk-fit routes across the UK

Around 67% of the British population take just 5,000 steps a day or less. This amount is defined as sedentary. To help get you out of this bracket, we've found 20 routes across the UK and divided them into four distances: 5,000 steps, 7,500 steps, 10,000 steps and 7km. As you get fitter and faster, even the 10,000 step routes should take you just over an hour.

Walking route: Hyde Park, London

Escape London's heaving streets by heading for the banks of the Serpentine in leafy Hyde Park. You'll be accompanied by the warbling of wildfowl, the restful lapping of the lake and the splash of Italianate fountains.

Walking route: Oxford University Parks

Pound the pavements of the old quarter before exploring the peace and quiet of Oxford's University Parks.