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Calories burned horseback riding
morihay
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Went on a 3 hour horseback trail ride in the mountains my Fitbit hr charge tracked over 30 thousand steps and logged it as exercise with 937 calories burned with an avg HR of 101 so I know the steps I didn't take my horse did lol so are the calories burned not accurate? Does that info just come straight from the HR tracked?
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Calories was based on the HR, so steps didn't matter for that.
So merely the normal issue that when HR is just barely above bottom of exercise zone (90 usually) - the accuracy is losing it more.
310 cal an HR doesn't sound that far off though for having HR at that level - probably 80-100 cal of that was BMR anyway, so really sounds realistic.
What you may do is test on a treadmill or a walk/jog and get HR up to the same avg for awhile, and feel if efforts seems the same for not just HR but breathing rate too.1 -
Here is a link with some helpful horse-related calorie burns listed. http://horseandrider.com/article/countingcalories_122006-17266
An hour of trotting would burn 444 calories for a 150 lb person, so 310 for very active and engaged riding in rugged terrain sounds reasonable.
Cross checked against Harvard Medical School, their pub gives a 300 calorie burn for an hour of "general riding" so again it sounds very reasonable.
http://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-weight-loss/calories-burned-in-30-minutes-of-leisure-and-routine-activities1
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