Really, Bowling

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  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    If you were truly bowling continuously for the 2 hours, might be so. You must calculate how much time YOU spend bowling-doesn't that make sense????

    This!^

    Other people will be bowling, you're waiting for your ball to come back, your waiting for the pins to reset......you're really not spending that much time actually bowling.
  • nathanialt
    nathanialt Posts: 10 Member
    I bowled for the first time in several years last night and if I didn't burn calories I certainly am paying today for something. I went by myself and bowled for an hour, 4 games. As I hadn't bowled for quite some time I sucked. In four games I got three strikes so I threw the ball 37 times. Just hefting 16 pounds that many times has to do something. If you look at WII bowling you can see what it is estimated for just the basic motion so add the approach and the barely controlled slinging of a huge rock and you have exercise. And it was a lot more fun than walking around the block. Pretty much the same calories too.
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    No way. Wear an HRM next time you go, to get a more accurate read.
  • stephanne13
    stephanne13 Posts: 212 Member
    There's no way it burns 900 cal..but, I do believe it's a work out. I go by myself, so I don't have to wait for anyone else to play. I am standing up there waiting for my ball and throwing as continuously as possible. Just getting back into it after an 8 yr hiatus. After about the fourth game, my arm starts giving out...afraid I'm going to lose the ball on the back swing. The first time I went a few weeks ago, I seriously could barely walk the next couple of days. I go on Saturdays when I can't make it to the gym before it closes. I think I burn a little over 200 or so..
  • _Nette_
    _Nette_ Posts: 1 Member
    I'm a bowler and if you are bowling alone you move much more frequently than you would if you were bowling with a group of people. Bowling is more physical than people who do not bowling with any regularity realize and you use more muscles than it would appear. I wear my telemetry strap and watch almost every time I bowl so that I can see the differences and that IS an accurate representation of bowling activity for that period of time.
  • BigGuy47
    BigGuy47 Posts: 1,768 Member
    ScottyNoHotty wrote: »
    DO NOT DRINK BEER!!!!
    C'mon now. What's the point of bowling if you're not going to drink beer?

  • sryan1072
    sryan1072 Posts: 1 Member
    My local lanes runs a special for $7. You get two lanes and as many games you can play in two hours. At the end of the frame you switch over to the loaded lane. So your wait time is minimal. You can really get groove going. In two hours I can throw 15-18 games. With a 15 lb ball I am wiped out.
  • Rururiri
    Rururiri Posts: 31 Member
    It's a lot of calories for bowling. Unless, you decided to keep on going back and forth nonstop for 2 hours, and use the heaviest bowling ball. You'll burn a significant amount of cals. However, I don't think it will even come close to 900 calories.
  • deluxmary2000
    deluxmary2000 Posts: 981 Member
    Wow, did we really need to resurrect a 5-year old thread to talk about bowling?? Must be a slow day. lol
  • stingrayinfl
    stingrayinfl Posts: 284 Member
    aerobic bowling
  • movitt97
    movitt97 Posts: 1 Member
    Below is a general estimate of how many calories you can burn bowling for 30 minutes. If you weigh 150 lbs, you can burn approximately 105 calories in 30 minutes. If you weigh 200 lbs, you can burn approximately 145 calories in 30 minutes. If you weigh 250 lbs, you can burn approximately 180 calories in 30 minutes.
    I got this from google search seems to make sense.
  • lalalacroix
    lalalacroix Posts: 834 Member
    Dang necro thread got me again!

    Who has the zombie pic?

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