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Calories burnt during cheerleading practice?

annabel_adcock
annabel_adcock Posts: 24
in Fitness and Exercise
Pretty self explanatory really :smile:
I'm 18, 5"2, 130lbs and I cheer x4 a week. Today was a 2hr practice, during which we did stunting (I was a base today), tumbling (handstands, cartwheels etc), and also some jumps :smile: I'm not constantly sweating for 2 hours, but it's not easy! My muscles ache!

I DO have a HRM, but I don't wear it to cheer because I feel the strap is constricting for the moves we have to do and I don't want to wear the watch because in cheer there are lots of limbs flying around and it could easily hurt someone :s

Any guesstimates on calorie burn? Thanks guys!

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  • myrtille87
    myrtille87 Posts: 122 Member
    I'd pick something that you think is similar in terms of effort/energy expended and log it as that for an estimate.

    eg: gymnastics / dance / high intensity aerobics, etc.

    It's never going to be perfect anyway, but it's better than total random guessing.

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