Getting that great parking spot could make you pile on the pounds

By read­ing the title of the post your prob­a­bly won­der­ing what I’m talk­ing about and why I’m being such a pes­simist, I mean we all want that per­fect park­ing spot after all so were right next to the entrance to wher­ever were going. Wether its the cin­e­mas, shop­ping cen­ter, gro­cery store or any other des­ti­na­tion we all typ­i­cally drive around look­ing for the clos­est pos­si­ble spot to wher­ever it is were going. Real­is­ti­cally though this could be con­tribut­ing to pil­ing on the pounds.

Really, this post is based around the knowl­edge of how many calo­ries you burn while walk­ing. Most likely if your going for a walk some­where then your doing it with the intent of burn­ing calo­ries and ulti­mately los­ing weight. If you can look at walk­ing in this view­point then the same should be applied to where you park your car as it to is walking.

Typ­i­cally a car park will be a good 100-200M long and about 100m wide. If you park at say the 200M mark to make things eas­ier to work out that’s 1/5 of a mile.

I know this is not exact maths but you would typ­i­cally burn say 100 calo­ries per mile you walk so if you walk the length of the car park there and then back that’s 400M or 40 calories.

Although 40 calo­ries isn’t a huge amount, it does ad up.

So there you have it, instead of park­ing right next to the entrance park as far away as pos­si­ble or at a mod­er­ate dis­tance to give your self some exer­cise. You never know, it could just work.

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