Any help for Cricketers?

Fench9
Fench9 Posts: 5
in Fitness and Exercise
Finding it hard to calculate calories for cricket. There is a log in myfitnesspal for cricket, but over 2000 calories seems like a lot for 6 hours of bowling and fielding. I understand that as a bowler it takes a lot of work, but do others think this is fairly accurate?

Also for training, would these amounts apply do you feel?

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  • Fench9
    Fench9 Posts: 5
    Not enough Aussies or English around by the look of it....
  • ssm_1972
    ssm_1972 Posts: 396 Member
    Well, I do play cricket and I follow Runstatic App to count calorie burn, you will find only Batting & Bowling though which is fare enough........after all something is better than nothing. For fielding, I assume a burning of 100 calories effectively for 2 hours. Hope it will help !!
  • TheVimFuego
    TheVimFuego Posts: 2,412 Member
    I play cricket summer and winter here. Over 100 games for my club and still rubbish in all areas.

    I don't log exercise at all but I reckon given my batting average I would have burnt around 30 calories batting for the whole of the last season. :)

    Seriously, I don't think it burns much if you aren't bowling, it might just cover the bacon and egg roll that is my traditional lunch.
  • BernadetteChurch
    BernadetteChurch Posts: 2,210 Member
    Think the only way you're going to get close to an accurate measurement is with a heart rate monitor.

    Or you could try a TDEE calculator like this one -n http://www.health-calc.com/diet/energy-expenditure-advanced - and try and estimate how much time is spent running or just standing around.
  • Fench9
    Fench9 Posts: 5
    Even just fielding for 80 overs i'd assume you would cover a fair bit of territory. Say you fielded at cover all day and didn't have to chase 1 ball. Walking in with the bowler 5m, then walk back and repeat 6 times. That's 60m per over. 60m x 80 overs = 4.8km. Then add say 40m per over just walking from cover to cover for the next over. 40m x 80 overs = 3.2km. So just fielding alone without bowling or chasing a ball you could be looking at around 8km covered. It all adds up pretty quickly really! Now i know this wouldn't raise the heart rate too much but it would still be quite beneficial i'd have thought.
  • BernadetteChurch
    BernadetteChurch Posts: 2,210 Member
    Oh it's definitely beneficial. Using the TDEE calculator on the link in my previous post you can get an idea of how many calories you'd burn just by adding, say, 4 hours of slow walking and 2 hours of standing. It can only be estimated, obviously, but I'm pretty sure you burn enough to earn that beer at the end of the day.
  • Nicolee_2014
    Nicolee_2014 Posts: 1,572 Member
    You wouldn't know unless you got a HRM. I understand that it is walking but is it fast walking or slow walking?
    Good luck working it out :smile:

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