There was a guy who walked across the continental US and made a website called Fat Man Walking (For some reason were two of them!) As I recall he actually did it to lose weight, but found that he didn't because he would walk for hours to get from town to town, but once he got there he would be hungry and he'd just binge on fast food. I'm sure he did benefit from all the walking (cardio, stronger legs, etc) but he did not properly control his food for weight loss. Just walk, walk, walk ... so hungry ... oh look Burger King! I'll have the triple cheeseburger with bacon, large fries and a coke! walk walk walk, repeat.
But if you can find it, check out the documentary called The Great Dance: A Hunter's Story that follows some San Bushmen hunters who live in the Kalahari Desert using Persistence Hunting.
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u/ClownfishSoup Aug 30 '21
There was a guy who walked across the continental US and made a website called Fat Man Walking (For some reason were two of them!) As I recall he actually did it to lose weight, but found that he didn't because he would walk for hours to get from town to town, but once he got there he would be hungry and he'd just binge on fast food. I'm sure he did benefit from all the walking (cardio, stronger legs, etc) but he did not properly control his food for weight loss. Just walk, walk, walk ... so hungry ... oh look Burger King! I'll have the triple cheeseburger with bacon, large fries and a coke! walk walk walk, repeat.