|Any estimates of caloric expense in paddling say, 200 pounds |at 4 mph? I had a big breakfast. I think that Atlantic Coastal Kayaking had an article about calories a couple years a go. I guestimated from the article that paddling my 190 pounds at 5mph burned 500 calories per hour. Guestimating on a guestimate I think 4mph would be in the 400 calories per hour range. I've wanted to get a heart rate monitor and see what that would show when I was out paddling. Some of the monitors record calories burned during excercise and I'm very curious how it would map out at different speeds. But having to rebuild a transmission put the heart rate monitor on hold. Course when I was told how much the tranny was going to cost I think my heart rate was on hold..... 8-) One of the things I have noticed when using my gym's, dreadmill errr, treadmill, is that the amount of calories expended is NOT equal to the effort put into the excercise. Running a 10 minute mile is about 150 calories per hour for me. Running 7 minute miles is much more painful and is not rewarded with a number of calories even close to the anquish I endure! 8-) Hope this helps.... Dan McCarty *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Sep 02 1999 - 10:59:39 PDT
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