walking in the cold

imkegoal

Having just walked to my daughters school and back in -5 degrees Celcius, I wondered; surely you will burn more calories walking in the freezing cold than walking on a nice spring day.

Does anyone know if this is true?

Weezoh

Makes good sense because your body has to burn more energy to maintain temperature (plus walking in snow will require more energy expenditure when you have to do that) - but I don't think the increase is something you could log

BrianSharpe

The human body is insanely good at regulating its temperature, assuming you were properly dressed the answer would be no. If you were cold & shivering a little bit more but not much (the Canadian Armed Forces did in depth studies about the nutritional needs of personnel operating in northern climates - ie winter warfare - and the difference was negligible)

meeper123

Eh I live in Alaska and I can tell you now that it is ill advised once you hit about -30 F or -34.4444 C

ShunkyDave

It's kinda funny, when I was walking to work, I didn't like doing it when it warmed up past 40. Once it got cold again (down to -10 some mornings), I loved walking to work.

Mokey41

Not enough to worry about.