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    Logging calories burnt during netball?

    Posts: 25 Member
    edited October 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    So I've been using MFP for over a month now and play netball 2/3 times a week but can't log it as its not on the exersize lists!
    Does anyone else play netball and how many cals would you say is burnt during a game playing either WA/GA or WD? I've noted it as basketball but I think more cals are burnt in this than netball in a game..
    Thank you :)

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    • Posts: 2,247 Member
      So I've been using MFP for over a month now and play netball 2/3 times a week but can't log it as its not on the exersize lists!
      Does anyone else play netball and how many cals would you say is burnt during a game playing either WA/GA or WD? I've noted it as basketball but I think more cals are burnt in this than netball in a game..
      Thank you :)

      All depending upon how much you weigh.

      However, a 65kg (143lbs) person would burn approximately 450 calories an hour playing netball.
    • Posts: 25 Member
      Ah right thankyou! I weigh 149 so probably about the same! That's more than I thought :)
    • Posts: 1 Member
      How/where a bouts did you get this information... i've been trawling the internet to work it out!! :)
    • Posts: 2,247 Member
      How/where a bouts did you get this information... i've been trawling the internet to work it out!! :)

      Hi!

      From the site below:

      http://www.bodyandsoul.com.au/body+fitness/news+features/get+fit+with+netball,8389

      Also this next site shows calories burned for other activities as well as netball, but give a higher calorie burn for netball:

      http://www.bootsdiets.com/calories_burned/team_sports/team_sports.html
    • Posts: 40 Member
      I think with netball it massively depends what position you play. If I play GS I barely break a sweat and tonight have played 50/50 GS and Centre and boy could I feel it! I keep trying to get away with my calorie counter watch on, under a sweat band but I keep getting rumbled by the umpire lol. I would predict that it's around 300 calories when I'm in GS and probably double that in Centre, based on comparisons in how I feel compared to other exercise and sports I do.
    • Posts: 55
      I wore my HRM a few times and at 87kg playing GK/GD i was burning between 300 and 400 cal
    • Posts: 1 Member
      edited May 2016
      Not sure if will help as it obviously depends on the person but i play GK/WD and weigh around 85 kilos, ive used my garmin vivofit with the heart rate strap and it has varied anywhere from 500-680 cals per game (I also have it on for about 15 minutes beforehand while we practice passing and shooting). In saying that though im not 100% certain how accurate the garmin straps are and i also think because i am quite unfit it burns more calories(?), even running/jogging 6km burns about 600 cals for me!
    • Posts: 7,088 Member
      clitorissa wrote: »
      Not sure if will help as it obviously depends on the person but i play GK/WD and weigh around 85 kilos, ive used my garmin vivofit with the heart rate strap and it has varied anywhere from 500-680 cals per game (I also have it on for about 15 minutes beforehand while we practice passing and shooting). In saying that though im not 100% certain how accurate the garmin straps are and i also think because i am quite unfit it burns more calories(?), even running/jogging 6km burns about 600 cals for me!

      Is that your real name? I was just curious
      @clitorissa
    • Posts: 6,208 Member
      Lol. Yikes.
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