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Golf - calories burned?

DalePederson
DalePederson Posts: 1
edited January 28 in Fitness and Exercise
How do you calculate the number of calories burned while playing golf?

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  • vjohn04
    vjohn04 Posts: 2,276 Member
    How do you calculate the number of calories burned while playing golf?

    Personally? I only add a mere fraction of what MFP calculates--the numbers seem way off.
  • dnish53
    dnish53 Posts: 162 Member
    I use the listing under exercse and fill in the number of minutes. It has a couple of choices - walking or in a cart. Some days I feel like the calorie count is too high so I will input less minutes. I have checked other sites and the calorie burn is pretty much the same.
  • AmyRhubarb
    AmyRhubarb Posts: 6,890 Member
    Last time I played golf, I wore my HRM out of curiosity and to compare to MFP's estimates in the database. Not sure how accurate the HRM was anyway, since it's really for more cardio, so not sure if prolonged wear with the down time of riding in the cart (although I did quite a bit of walking, zig zagging across the fairway to get to my ball - I'm a new golfer! :tongue: ) really gets an accurate count.

    Anyway, for 233 minutes of golfing with a cart, the HRM gave me a burn of 784 cals. MFP said 825 for the same amount of time, so not too far off, but still higher than my HRM.
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