Volume 9 - Avon Walk for Breast Cancer Training Tips

Hello Ladies!

I hope your training is going well! Here is some motivation:

Most of us, while excited about the walk and the breast cancer cause, also hope that we personally benefit from the walk, by loosing some weight!

Walking will definitely help with that! In a nutshell, 1 pound of body fat is equal to 3,500 calories. A healthy rate of weight loss is approximately 1 -2 pounds per week. To lose 1 pound per week you would have to burn an additional 500 calories per day. (7 days a week X 500 calories per day = 3500 calories.)

Below are some simple formulas (from ezinearticles.com) you can use to determine how many calories you are burning when you walk:

If you walk a pace of (note that per Avon, we only need to walk 2.75 miles/hour to complete the walk):

3.0 miles/hour (20-minute miles) = You burn .027 calories per pound that you weigh per minute.
3.5 miles/hour (17 minute miles) = You burn .033 calories/pound/minute.
4.0 miles/hour (15 minute miles) = You burn .042 calories/pound/minute.
4.5 miles/hour (13 minute miles) = You burn .047 calories/pound/minute.

Take the number of calories/pound/minute you burn and multiply it by your weight and then by the number of minutes you walk.

For example, if you weigh 150 pounds and walk a 20-minute mile for 60 minutes, you multiply 150 by .027, then multiple the result (4.5) by 60. You burn 270 calories!

Now that is motivation!

Until my next post,

Jen