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I want to start carrying little weights in my hands ( I guess these are
called dumbbells or free weights?)when I walk in the afternoons, any suggestions on the best ones and what weight to start out with? I have some that I use here at home after I bike but they are like 6lbs each and way to heavy for carrying when walking. Suggestions on weight brand and where to shop for them please? Susan 260/219/160 --- 2weeks 2days 17:33hours of being smoke-free, 677 cigs not smoked, $125.25 saved, 2day 8:25hours of my life saved |
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:34:01 -0500, "Susan Jones-Anderson"
wrote: I want to start carrying little weights in my hands ( I guess these are called dumbbells or free weights?)when I walk in the afternoons, any suggestions on the best ones and what weight to start out with? I have some that I use here at home after I bike but they are like 6lbs each and way to heavy for carrying when walking. Suggestions on weight brand and where to shop for them please? I have heard that it isn't a good idea to carry weights when walking. I did a quick web search to see if I could see anything on this and found the following: http://www.thewalkingsite.com/walkingfaq.html -- see the second question. (This looks like a good site on walking, by the way.) I've also heard that carrying weights can either throw off the normal arm swing that accompanies vigorous walking or cause joint/ligament injuries to elbows or shoulders as a result of that motion. If your objective in this is to exercise your upper body, it might be better to just do some separate exercise with weights. The weights you could carry while walking wouldn't do much to build upper body muscle, anyway, as they'd be too light. If you want to add weight just to increase the difficulty of the walk, you might be safer considering a backpack or some pockets into which you place some weights. For this purpose, round weight plates might be more practical than dumbbells. You can find both of these at a sporting goods store or probably the sporting goods section of a store like Sears. Chris |
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:34:01 -0500, "Susan Jones-Anderson"
wrote: I want to start carrying little weights in my hands ( I guess these are called dumbbells or free weights?)when I walk in the afternoons, any suggestions on the best ones and what weight to start out with? I have some that I use here at home after I bike but they are like 6lbs each and way to heavy for carrying when walking. Suggestions on weight brand and where to shop for them please? Susan 260/219/160 --- 2weeks 2days 17:33hours of being smoke-free, 677 cigs not smoked, $125.25 saved, 2day 8:25hours of my life saved As the 2 other posters have pointed out - its really not great to walk with weights. So, the question is - for what purpose do you want to use the weights while walking? If you use little 1lb weights or even 5lb weights you are really just getting increased cardio activity. But you aren't benefiting from muscle growth like you would if you did true resistence training. Back a few years ago BF bought me some gell pack wrist weights. I believe they were weider brand little 1lb neoprene/gel filled wrist weights. They sit in a box under my desk. This past year for X-mas he bought me some 1lb gloves. I had him return those, as I didn't care to have something like that. Here's a couple things to do as alternatives. Consider investing in some 10, 15 and 20 lb dumbells (or in a set w/ interchangible weights that can get you up to 25lbs - $50 at walmart). Spend 15 mins doing upper body workouts w/ those weights, bent rows, bench press, pulldowns, flys and delts, and then go for your walk. This will anerobicly workout your upper body (weight resistence training - build muscle, burn fat). Then the walk for cardio. You only need to do that routine 2 to 3 times a week. On other days you could use the same weights to do lunges, squats, deadlifts and crunches and walk. Spend 15 mins w/ the weights and 20 - 30 mins walking and you've got a great workout. Be sure to stretch before and after. Less than 1 hr you've got a good workout. The only time I use weights with cardio now is if I'm using the recumbent bike and want to get more out of the cardio session. Since I'm in a sitting position to begin with, I can grab some light weights and pump my arms, or do overhead lifts or flys, etc - just to work out harder. But it doesn't build muscle. |
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This is not a good idea since you risk injury to joints etc. I did this
years ago until I had problems with my hip and arms. If you want to add more weight use a weighted belt. This keeps the weights to the center of gravity on your body. It adds resistance but no injury. Roxan "Susan Jones-Anderson" wrote in message ... I want to start carrying little weights in my hands ( I guess these are called dumbbells or free weights?)when I walk in the afternoons, any suggestions on the best ones and what weight to start out with? I have some that I use here at home after I bike but they are like 6lbs each and way to heavy for carrying when walking. Suggestions on weight brand and where to shop for them please? Susan 260/219/160 --- 2weeks 2days 17:33hours of being smoke-free, 677 cigs not smoked, $125.25 saved, 2day 8:25hours of my life saved |
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