Calories burned while skiing

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samlovesthesnow
samlovesthesnow Posts: 173 Member
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Hi all, I'm going skiing and am trying to work out how many additional calories I might be able to eat.

I'm female, 5'6'', 158lbs and am currently losing about a pound per week on 1260 calories per day.

I'll be downhill skiing, mostly on the piste.

I'm struggling to find reliable resources to help me work out how many calories I'll burn. I don't have a fitness tracker. Can anybody help?

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  • annacole94
    annacole94 Posts: 997 Member
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    Skiing, downhill, light effort: 15 min 71 1 hour 284
    Skiing, downhill, moderate effort: 15 min 89 1 hour 355
    Skiing, downhill, vigorous effort, racing: 15 min: 124 1 hour:497

    I'd guess you're not racing? So probably around 300 cal/hour of actual skiing. You'll have to estimate how much time you spend going down vs. how much time you spend in line and on the lift.
  • samlovesthesnow
    samlovesthesnow Posts: 173 Member
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    Thank you! Where did you find the numbers? I'm not racing, just skiing at a leisurely pace but probably with a few mogul runs thrown in.
  • annacole94
    annacole94 Posts: 997 Member
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    http://calorielab.com/burned/?mo=se&gr=19&ti=winter+activities&q=&wt=150&un=lb&kg=68

    (adjusted to your weight)
  • samlovesthesnow
    samlovesthesnow Posts: 173 Member
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    Thank you, that's really helpful :smiley:
  • annacole94
    annacole94 Posts: 997 Member
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    For day to day stuff, use your phone as a fitness tracker. I'm just using Google Fit. I know it's not a 100% accurate pedometer, but it's free and it links to MFP. It helps a lot to earn 200 calories from walking when you're calorie allowance is so low. I've been eating most of what it gives me as exercise calories and losing as planned.
  • Adumond78
    Adumond78 Posts: 1 Member
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    Hi,

    Get an app like ski tracks to track your time going down vs. lift time. Put that in the link posted above and that should give you a pretty accurate estimate/
  • katorihanzo
    katorihanzo Posts: 234 Member
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    Downhill skiing isn't wonderful exercise, unfortunately. I wish! Cross-country on the other hand, is a killer calorie burner.

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