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Stephen wrote:
> I might just do it. Thanks for the advice.
Sure. It was tremendously helpful for me. I got a cortizone shot too, but it
really was so bad that walking to the mailbox was painful, so YMMV. :-)
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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Insanity is a small city on the western
border of the State of Mind.
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>>>> Insert your conclusions here.
>>> Excellent that is about 5 miles a day.
>> How do you figure that?
>
> Arithmetic? o_O
Presumably for that you'd need to know my mean step length and an
estimate of the standard deviation, at least...
>> I find that when I walk, my calves hurt down the front.
>
> Your shin?
Yeah. Or rather, the muscles down either side of the bone.
I wasn't aware I had muscles there...
> Crikey Andrew it is exercising muscles that are not used to it. :-)
...indeed.
8 hours of dancing: The tendons at the back of my legs knee hurt.
8 minutes of walking: The muscles on either side of my shin bones hurt.
8 minutes of skiing: EVERY FREAKING MUSCLE IN MY LEGS HURTS!!
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On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:47:53 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
>>>> Excellent that is about 5 miles a day.
>>> How do you figure that?
>>
>> Arithmetic? o_O
>
>Presumably for that you'd need to know my mean step length and an
>estimate of the standard deviation, at least...
No, 10,000 steps is about 5 miles.
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Stephen
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> 8 hours of dancing: The tendons at the back of my legs knee hurt.
>
> 8 minutes of walking: The muscles on either side of my shin bones hurt.
Nothing really wrong there.
With each step you take, you're using your feet together with your lower leg
muscles not only to push yourself forward and upward, but also to dampen your
steps, to reduce the impact forces acting on your joints and spine each time
you put a foot down.
When dancing, you usually do this by putting down your feet toes first,
providing a good lever for the muscles at the back of your legs to catch your
weight softly and elegantly as a feather (ideally :P).
The same approach, however, would be atypical for walking (probably because it
wastes more energy), and you'll instead put down your feet heel first (unless
you're wearing high heels :P). The drawback is that this not only gives you a
shorter lever, but also requires different muscles to become active. Guess
which ones...
So it's perfectly normal that it's *them* that hurt. If you're walking a good
deal more than usual, that is.
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clipka wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> 8 hours of dancing: The tendons at the back of my legs knee hurt.
>>
>> 8 minutes of walking: The muscles on either side of my shin bones hurt.
>
> Nothing really wrong there.
>
> With each step you take, you're using your feet together with your lower leg
> muscles not only to push yourself forward and upward, but also to dampen your
> steps, to reduce the impact forces acting on your joints and spine each time
> you put a foot down.
>
> When dancing, you usually do this by putting down your feet toes first,
> providing a good lever for the muscles at the back of your legs to catch your
> weight softly and elegantly as a feather (ideally :P).
>
> The same approach, however, would be atypical for walking (probably because it
> wastes more energy), and you'll instead put down your feet heel first (unless
> you're wearing high heels :P). The drawback is that this not only gives you a
> shorter lever, but also requires different muscles to become active. Guess
> which ones...
>
> So it's perfectly normal that it's *them* that hurt. If you're walking a good
> deal more than usual, that is.
Heh. And here I was thinking that maybe I just walk too rigidly or
something... ;-)
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OK, so another few weeks have passed. Glancing at the chart, the big
peaks stand out. But if you visually ignore a few outliers, you'll see
the numbers are all actually quite low. Especially this week [green];
only last night did my trip counter exceed 2,000 steps.
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My pedometer is currently inoperable, but it seems that on a typical day
at work, I take about 300 - 600 steps.
If a make a lap of the park in my lunch break, that seems to be about
1,000 steps.
And if I go dancing, I typically get through roughly 2,000 steps per hour.
However, my record number of steps for a single day is 9,050. And that
was the day I stayed up until gone midnight dancing. I danced for hours
on end! And that *still* didn't take me past 10,000 steps.
As far as I can determine, the 10,000 step challenge is impossible.
There aren't enough hours in the day available for walking to actually
take that many steps...
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Le 31/07/2009 11:14, Invisible nous fit lire :
> As far as I can determine, the 10,000 step challenge is impossible.
> There aren't enough hours in the day available for walking to actually
> take that many steps...
A step being between 60 to 80 cm, a 10,000 step a day just means: walk a
150% marathon at least (60 km), everyday.
that's about 10 to 15 hours at 4 to 6 km/h.
That's plain silly challenge. Even marathonians do not make one marathon
everyday (and that's only 42+ km).
Of course, if you are away from food 10 to 15 hours a day, you will not
spend that time eating!
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Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> Le 31/07/2009 11:14, Invisible nous fit lire :
>
> > As far as I can determine, the 10,000 step challenge is impossible.
> > There aren't enough hours in the day available for walking to actually
> > take that many steps...
>
> A step being between 60 to 80 cm, a 10,000 step a day just means: walk a
> 150% marathon at least (60 km), everyday.
6 km, surely?
I've just counted 100 steps getting myself a cup of tea. I reckon I'm on 1500
(ish) a day at work, and my job is highly sedentary. An hour's decent walk on
top of regular moving about would get me to 10,000.
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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> As far as I can determine, the 10,000 step challenge is impossible.
> There aren't enough hours in the day available for walking to actually
> take that many steps...
Assuming you're going for a 12-hour day, that would be 4.32 seconds per step on
average. Not a particularly deadly pace. (Top marathon runners do roughly the
same number of steps in just a single hour!)
Then again, if your day is actually full of *office work* with much sitting
around to do, then this becomes a challenge indeed...
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