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Calories Burned During Exercise
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vanhoskier
Angel Diva
According to that chart, it looks like I'm going for an hour run tonight to burn off the whoopie pie I ate this afternoon!!!
That stuff can vary so much though. Even looking at the bicycling stuff - speed doesn't really measure effort/calories burned accurately. You could be seriously exerting yourself going slow up a steep hill or cruising fast coasting downhill. Or on technical terrain or smooth terrain or pavement...
Plus - it's funny to me that they're saying paddleboat and motocross burn the same amount of calories.
Um... MX is one of the most full body intense activities I can think of. I can't even fathom pushing myself on a track for an hour straight. But you can cruise around in a paddleboat barely moving your legs (and drinking a beer...) pretty much indefinitely. Or I guess you could be tooling around on a MX bike on flat ground barely exerting yourself at all, which is apparently what the person making the chart was envisioning...
Plus - it's funny to me that they're saying paddleboat and motocross burn the same amount of calories.
Um... MX is one of the most full body intense activities I can think of. I can't even fathom pushing myself on a track for an hour straight. But you can cruise around in a paddleboat barely moving your legs (and drinking a beer...) pretty much indefinitely. Or I guess you could be tooling around on a MX bike on flat ground barely exerting yourself at all, which is apparently what the person making the chart was envisioning...
MaineSkiLady
Angel Diva
Ha! Come try sweeping mine in an hour at winter's end. The sand, mud and salt are generally 1+" thick under tire areas, and the stuff is "glued" to the concrete, requiring some serious muscle to loosen. Oh yeah, and it's 28 x 56. Takes me half a day, at least.
Some of these numbers are quite amusing. The low numbers for playing piano and drums. Hmmm, depends on the type of music. I've seen rock drummers sweat bullets, ditto pianists doing a tough piano concerto. Dripping.
