Thread: Jog vs Walk

It's not necessarily how many calories you burn during the workout that counts, but also the amount you burn afterwards. Consider weightlifting. If you do high-intensity weightlifting (cleans, jerks, snatches) or high-intensity compound movements (deadlifts, front squats, bench presses) with reasonable volume, your body will continue to burn calories after you finish lifting for up to 48 hours. The most effective way to utilize this with cardio is probably HIIT, or high intensity interval training. In HIIT training, you walk, then run, then walk, then run. You do cycles at various intensities to get the positive effects of both intensities and the lower intensity helps you recover from the higher intensity. So, to answer your question, it would probably burn the most total calories to do some combination of both.

Thanks alot for your reply. You answered my question perfectly . As for HIIT, when u mean run, is that 100% sprint or a fairly fast jog? What i'v been doing is a fairly fast pace jog until i lose my wind. Then as soon as i catch my breath again i'll do it again until my route is done.

Originally Posted by BillsFan4life

Thanks alot for your reply. You answered my question perfectly . As for HIIT, when u mean run, is that 100% sprint or a fairly fast jog? What i'v been doing is a fairly fast pace jog until i lose my wind. Then as soon as i catch my breath again i'll do it again until my route is done.

HIIT = all out, balls to the wall sprint for very short intervals accompanied by active rest. maximal energy exertion.

ie:
15 sec sprint : 30 sec active rest
30 sec sprint : 60 sec active rest

8-12 sets max

Thank you for your help, i guess i'm gonna have to go by a stop watch now.

What's up billsfan

A little off topic but who do you think the bills are gonna take with the #8 pick.
Personally, if Brick isn't there I would like to see them trade down and get an additional 2nd.

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I'm pretty sure you would burn more calories running an equivalent distance. Most of the work performed when walking or jogging occurs when you push upward. It requires very little energy to maintain the same forward speed. When you jog or run as opposed to walk, you are continually leaping off the ground, raising your calorie requirements big time. Although you are walking for longer, I'm pretty sure that the increased power output during a bout of running more than offsets this. Not to mention, the increased intensity of the sessions will lead to an elevated metabolism some time after the workout, although the effect may not be too significant in this case.