Walk Away the Pounds
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From: Proctologically Violated�� on 7 May 2008 13:56 The only thing that boggles my mind more than poker on TV (and the hoardes that apparently watch it) is Sansone's walk away the pounds. First, it's not walking. It's less than walking. And walking is already about the lowest baseline for fitness that there is--power walking, race walking and other things excepted. Not denigrating walking at all--I walk extensively, mixed with whatever running I can do at the time. Real walking is so infinitely superior to Sansone's hustle that she has done an immense disservice to the crowd who can't do high-energy workouts and who really needs to get all they can get out of their exercise time. Actually, it's not a disservice: It's a robbery. Her rubber bands make it perhaps a Class B Felony, instead of a Class A. Outside, you can walk with handweights (HeavyHands, ala Leondard Schwartz, great great book), you can vary gaits, include side stepping, backwards walking, large-step walking, swing your legs, kick, you name it. Very fast walking actually exceeds the calorie burn of running at that pace, but uses different muscles. If you can't walk outside, and for whatever reason all you can do is walk, a treadmill would be well worthwhile. The Feb 08 Consumer Reports has a review of these (and ellipticals), which I summarized in a response to the misc.fitness.misc post Where should I start on 5/3. However, if you are able to walk outside, I would not recommend a treadmill, and would also point out that walking in cold weather allows you to walk very fast very comfortably, as heat/sweat is not an issue. With layered/removeable clothing and gloves/muffs/perhaps a ski maks, walking in sub-freezing weather is quite do-able. Personally, I find 40 F the best fast walking/running weather. Sansone's walking in place is not bad for a minute or two--it does recruit different muscles. After using this as a warmup, I would turn it into progressive "knee kicks", where I try to touch my chest with my knee. Really a great calisthenic/stretching/back exercise. -- ------ Mr. P.V.'d (formerly Droll Troll), Yonkers, NY Sodomized by Congress, butt again... But, Obama at least took me to the hospital! entropic3.14decay at optonline2.718 dot net; remove pi and e to reply--ie, all d'numbuhs "Afulghum" <akfulghum(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:5d8ec2e2-1291-4f6c-a213-4b6676b73b89(a)34g2000hsh.googlegroups.com... > Has anyone tried Walk Away the Pounds by Leslie Sansone? I tried it > for the 1st time today...I really liked. I just wanted to get some > other opinions.
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