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03-11-2020, 03:28 PM
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walking question

I was wondering that if your walking up a steep hill on a pavement, is it better to take long strides which means each leg needs more muscle power to lift the body, or short steps means less muscle leg power but more often.
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03-11-2020, 04:23 PM
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Re: walking question

It's always difficult to say what others should do because we're all different. Don't want to say 'do this' or 'do that' and then hear the person has had a heart attack, strained a muscle or something.

If I'm walking for exercise, I do the stride that comes naturally on any upward gradient but fast enough to make the lungs work and the heart speed up.

If doing that, I think muscle tone follows as a subsequence.
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03-11-2020, 04:49 PM
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Re: walking question

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It's always difficult to say what others should do because we're all different. Don't want to say 'do this' or 'do that' and then hear the person has had a heart attack, strained a muscle or something.

If I'm walking for exercise, I do the stride that comes naturally on any upward gradient but fast enough to make the lungs work and the heart speed up.

If doing that, I think muscle tone follows as a subsequence.

I walk regularly, almost everyday for two miles. I keep my speed about the same, not meandering, but I do let my body decide my pace on inclines. I can feel the exercise was brisk, as it takes my body several minutes to get back to normal when I am finished.
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03-11-2020, 05:23 PM
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Re: walking question

Personally I stride out a bit more on hills...
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03-11-2020, 08:45 PM
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Re: walking question

Get the bus.
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03-11-2020, 09:28 PM
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Re: walking question

I know someone who used to live at the top of a very steep hill, she used to walk backwards up the hill, she said it somehow seemed easier to get up the hill . I'm not joking either
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03-11-2020, 09:29 PM
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Re: walking question

Originally Posted by longdogs ->
get the bus.
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03-11-2020, 10:28 PM
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Re: walking question

Personally I would take shorter steps but more of them Realspeed, if you were driving up a steep hill in your car you would change down the gears and get the revs up. More torque and less speed.....
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03-11-2020, 10:41 PM
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Re: walking question

Can't say, I take reasonably short steps anyway (compared to how I used to walk) I also live in a very flat area so hills are not an option.

I try to walk 5 to 8km each day though the recent wet weather put the kibosh on that.

If anybody is interested there is a phone app called "Simply Walking" which doesn't share your walk data unlike most of these apps. It records your walk on a map as well as graphically and can use kilometres or the more archaic measurements.




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Re: walking question

Originally Posted by Lion Queen ->
I know someone who used to live at the top of a very steep hill, she used to walk backwards up the hill, she said it somehow seemed easier to get up the hill . I'm not joking either

 
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