How Much Walking Per Day

[wdwjmp239]

You do walk a lot at WDW, but not really enough to justify anything you eat.

The trouble with walking is that it's too easy. To properly burn calories, you need your heart rate to be significantly elevated.

You can see from the graph posted above that despite taking over 14,000 steps, only 800 calories were burned. That's barely your ice cream sunday and churro for the day.

My suggestion is just eat whatever you want and go back to good habits when you return home. Walking isn't going to be the needle mover you need to offset the food eaten at WDW. It takes a lot of work to burn calories, but not a lot of food to take in calories. Frankly, that's why a lot of people who are overweight don't understand why they keep gaining weight. They think walking around the office or to check the mail should burn off the 4 donuts they had for breakfast.

Weight loss for 99% of the people is calories in minus calories out. You eat more than you burn, you will gain weight. Simple.

I agree with this. The people who are going to lose the weight are the ones that go jogging/running early in the morning to get their calorie burn and metabolism up. That way, when they are eating in the parks, they can consume pretty much what they want (within reason, though) and not have to worry about the weight gain. As for me, in our trip to Disney this past weekend, I walked about 75,000 steps (approx 14 miles) and burned a total of 1,000 calories (give or take a few hundred). I think I consumed 1,000 calories in the first five minutes of the first day at Disney!

 

[Chef Mickey]

I agree with this. The people who are going to lose the weight are the ones that go jogging/running early in the morning to get their calorie burn and metabolism up. That way, when they are eating in the parks, they can consume pretty much what they want (within reason, though) and not have to worry about the weight gain. As for me, in our trip to Disney this past weekend, I walked about 75,000 steps (approx 14 miles) and burned a total of 1,000 calories (give or take a few hundred). I think I consumed 1,000 calories in the first five minutes of the first day at Disney!

That's exactly where I was going with this. It's soooo much easier and quicker to eat calories than burn them.

Often, people think they are getting "so much exercise" because they are walking a lot and will tend to eat more. Then they are surprised they gained weight on their trip.

I absolutely destroy myself working out at the gym and will only burn about 850 calories in 45 minutes of cardio. That's anaerobic at 160 bpm heart rate exercise.

 

[BJones82]

using fitbits the last time we visited we did around 10-13 miles a day being at the parks from 11am to close which was around midnight most nights. We are very leisurely at the parks in that we will walk from one end to another end of the park to do something and then walk back to the other end. So we don't plan out our day according the the least amount of walking. We love walking through the Disney parks and just seeing everything and everyone.

So in conclusion I think on a 10-12 hour day based off my experience you can plan for walking 10-13 miles a day though you could do a lot more if you walk faster than us or if the parks are open longer than they were when we were there.

I'll be going again in a few weeks when the parks are open till 1am (MK at least) and I can give you an update then if you would like...

Edit: Just realized this post is years old... yay I guess lol... so nm to everyone lol...

 

[wdwjmp239]

That's exactly where I was going with this. It's soooo much easier and quicker to eat calories than burn them.

Often, people think they are getting "so much exercise" because they are walking a lot and will tend to eat more. Then they are surprised they gained weight on their trip.

I absolutely destroy myself working out at the gym and will only burn about 850 calories in 45 minutes of cardio. That's anaerobic at 160 bpm heart rate exercise.

I'm a road cyclist and if I'm four hours on a bike about 60 miles or so, I'm looking at about 4000 calories. If I sprint, then that number is going to go well into the 5000-6000 calorie zone. To burn that many calories by walking.....good luck with that.

 

[melmel89]

we usually clock up between 10-15 miles per day, we always try to do some walking in the weeks before we go so its not too much of a shock to the system! I think our all time record was 17.5 Miles. its all worth it though!

 

[Fizban]

So the average adult male consumes between 70 and 90 calories per hour for just sleeping (I seem to be stuck at the lower end thanks to metabolism). The average person will burn between 80 to 140 calories per mile (source:http://caloriesburnedhq.com/calories-burned-walking/) . On a rowing machine I burn 740 calories per hour, but im not gonna pretend I do an hour.

 

[zero creativity]

Forgot about this post. I just got a fitbit a couple months ago so I'll see first hand when I visit next. As an FYI I usually get about 6000 steps in the neighborhood of 3 miles walking around a classroom all day

 

[zero creativity]

Not to bump a two year old thread again, but someone wrote a buzzfeed article about walking at disneyland. http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/how-many-miles-do-you-walk-during-a-day-at-disneyl

 

[BJones82]

Just got back, in 3 days with 8 hours of walking each day we did 35 miles and 20-23k steps a day. One day we only did about 14k (our 4th day) but that was the day of our wedding planning session at Disney so I took it out of the calculations and only did the other 3 days... This was 1 day at Epcot, 1 day at Magic Kingdom, and 1 day in Disney Springs or Downtown Disney or whatever it is called currently lol...

Edit: Sorry didn't look to see this was so old lol...

 

[JohnHangen]

We ranged from 14 miles at the bigger parks like MK (where we are admittedly not always efficient at planning our movements) and EPCOT, to a little over 10 miles at DHS.

 

[bjlc57]

we have averaged about the same 13 -18 miles per day.. there is a ton of walking to and from the busess and then on the rides themselves.. how deep do you think Soarin' is? it ain't just to the back door.. test track is the same.. and if you are following a "plan'.. sometimes.. you have to back track.. especially before going to the world showcase..

 

[Susan Savia]

I average 5 to 12 miles a day depending on which park I'm in. I did 10 miles during the MNSSHP last year.

 

[tem325]

In Sept and February when I went, my pedometer measured about 9-12 miles a day.

 

[betty rose]

I usually walk about 13 miles on a morning-to-night day. The total's higher when EPCOT's involved, lower with DHS.

We have done the same for many years, not going out of our way to do anything...the distances can be surprising. I now quit at noon, as it's just to much for me and my husband.

 

[Zippity-do-DAD]

OK, according to our little techno doo hickie that we wear in the parks while we vacation, on a weeks worth of Disney, we walked 96.63 miles. So if you ask me, eat what you want and you should at least break even! (Or atleast that's what I tell myself) Bon appetite!

 

[bjlc57]

Well I call it going to boot camp.. although its starting to get harder and harder to get into a full day's worth of shape at age 58..

 

[betty rose]

Well I call it going to boot camp.. although its starting to get harder and harder to get into a full day's worth of shape at age 58..

Yup, I'm soon to be 67 and can only do half days...if only my body would go along with my wants.

 

[Minnie1976]

Never checked it out, but it is a LOT. Really worried that on our next trip my legs won't be able to do it. Husband uses a scooter, but I don't think I could or would want to handle one of those things. Life may have to be slower or shorter days.

 

[Minnie1976]

Yup, I'm soon to be 67 and can only do half days...if only my body would go along with my wants.

I totally understand what you are saying. I'm 64.

 

[bjlc57]

Yup, I'm soon to be 67 and can only do half days...if only my body would go along with my wants.

the next time we go,, I firmly believe that we will go back to the hotel at noon.. but.. knowing my wife , I could be, and have been wrong many times..