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Downhill skiing calorie burn?

cbroverman
cbroverman Posts: 5 Member
edited January 19 in Fitness and Exercise
Hi, does anyone really believe the huge burn that MFP gives you for downhill skiing, or know any more information? It gave me over a thousand calories burned for 3.5 hours, even though you end up riding the chairlift a lot of that. Any advice/knowledge if this is correct? Thanks!

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  • OnyxPenguin
    OnyxPenguin Posts: 5 Member
    I tend to try to balance it by putting in the time that I'm actually skiing not sitting on the lift. I think the calories burnt are for the time actually skiing. I took my heart rate montior out on the hill one day though and burnt about 1400 calories in about 6 hours on the hill, including chairlift, lunch and warm up time.
  • patrickblo13
    patrickblo13 Posts: 831 Member
    I would agree with the above poster. I usually determine how much time I actually ski....i think it also depends on what and how you ski. i am a very aggressive skier and ski lots of bumps and trees.
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