Horse riders that count those calories??

missigus

I'm just wondering if any of you fellow horse people count your riding as a form of exercise? I rode a posting trot for 35 min solid today, plus some other stuff and my legs are jello, so I counted it. Also, do you think the calorie burn is about right when you enter the time spent trotting/cantering or what ever? I only counted thirty min of trotting, cuz I wasn't sure if the other 30 min of stuff should count, ie: walking cooldown, lunging, grooming, tacking, untacking. I'm just not sure what all to count or if I should at all... so I'm curious as to what u all count...if you do! Thanks

roses6

Hi! I do count horse back riding as exercise and log it in MFP. But, I don't count it as doing my exercise... meaning I feel like I should be running, working out, etc outside of riding. I rode for 2 hours on Sunday half of it was trotting and I thought the calorie count was way too high... I said the other hour was general since we were walking and sometimes cantering. I don't count grooming and stuff like that. Everyone is probably going to feel differently, but I am trying to strengthen myself for endurance riding (the sport I participate in), so I am trying to workout beyond my horse rides. Trying to go from 24 miles to 50!! Got to make sure I can post that long.

lschuttem

yeah i count the calories from riding, but i alway WAY underestimate what i do. For example, I'll often spend about 2-2.5 or even 3 hours to clean stalls, groom, tack up, longe, ride, practice showmanship, untack, etc. Regardless of what I did riding (walk, jog, or actually training) I just log it all as 20 or 30 minutes of "horseback riding-walking". That usually gets logged as about 80-100 calories burnt, and Im confident that in those 2.5 hours of work that I burnt at least that!

05HeatherLouise05

Horse Riding is my main Exercise, i used to go to the gym and workout but then i thought "Why the hell am i paying for a gym membership when all the exercise i need is out in the paddock?" I have 2 horses and i usually work with them 2 hours each (so all up at least 4 hours) a few times a week. And just doing that i am loosing weight and building the muscles i need to be a better rider, Plus i sometimes run the fence line, so that counts too.

Also i've got an X-box Kinect, talk about serious pain and using muscles that i didn't even know i had lol I was hurting for 3 day after playing with that for 2 hours.