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Practice proper walking technique by swinging your arms, tightening your stomach muscles and tucking your pelvis in. Keep your feet at about shoulder-width apart and look ahead of you about 15 to 20 feet. How long you need to walk to burn 500 calories depends on your body weight and your intensity level. According to the Physical Activity Calorie Counter on the American Council of Exercise website, a 180-pound person needs to walk at a moderate, 3 mile-per-hour pace for one hour and 50 minutes to burn nearly 500 calories.
In fact, I had read years ago that fast walking burns more calories than running at the same speed. Now was the time to test this hypothesis. Wearing a heart-rate monitor, I ran on a treadmill for two minutes at 3.0 mph (20 minutes per mile), and at 3.5, 4.0, 4.5, 5.0, and 5.5 mph (10:55 per mile).ost runners have heard that running burns about 100 calories a mile. And since walking a mile requires you to move the same body weight over the same distance, walking should also burn about 100 calories a mile. Sir Isaac Newton said so.