Feets don't fail me now!

[mikailborg]

Hey there! I need opinions from the wise folk of LiveJournal.

So, I'm getting about a mile of walking in per day, but after a week, I'm still a bit winded and overheated when I finish.

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Comments

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

According to my A&P class, the slow-twitch muscle fibers are the ones that are for endurance. If I recall correctly speed or greater effort won't help you, but making the distance longer will work on getting those kind of fibers more involved. If I had my textbook I could explain this better.

http://www.shapefit.com/muscle-fiber-types.html

[snidegrrl.livejournal.com]

another better link:

http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/martinidemo/chapter10/medialib/CH10/html/ch10_5_3.html

Give it time

[thatwhichisgene.livejournal.com]

A very long time ago, I went to work for the campus dorm security program. We had to do walking tours of the dormitory areas. We had a van to get from the office to one side of campus or the other, but we still walked everything between van rides. I still vividly remember how exhausted I was after that first 4 hour shift. Fast forward to that summer, I was pulling double shifts and didn't even breathe hard afterwards. A few years later, we lost the van and moved our office closer to the dorms and I walked the whole thing. 7 miles (we measured it with a pedometer) for a full tour of all the dorms. When I made management, I pulled two shifts a night (14 miles) five nights a week. Nowadays, two hours a week on the elliptical is hard to squeeze in, but I'm trying.

[rattrap.livejournal.com]

In my experience, stick with where you are until you're fairly comfortable with that. Then tack on an extra quarter-mile or so, depending on how much that winds you, lather, rinse, repeat. The idea is just about when you get comfortable, move it up till it's more of a challenge.

[(Anonymous)]

If you change the pace of your walk at times you should notice the weight leaves faster and the stamina comes faster.

So slow down for periods and then speed walk for a few minutes (2-5) and you'll see some real differences quickly. Otherwise your body will find a new plateau but then just relax into that one. So you can keep a plateau from ever really forming by changing pace.

Kitten