Any roller skaters.

I'm a fresh meat at roller derby, it's awesome! It's quad skating not inline though, I used to have inline skates but I think they put more stress on your joints and ankles than quads. Skating burns lots of calories especially when you go fast, around 500 an hour, I usually do two hours a week.

I used to go skating 1-2/week every week. Then after the kids came along I'd take them, but I haven't skated just for fun in a long time. I have been thinking about going back to it. I love quads. I did get to go ice skating once in DC last year when my daughter graduated from college though.

Well I am a roller derby girl, so quads all the way!
...and my heart rate monitor clocks me at around 500 an hour for calories burned.

Hey! Is the 500 for straight skating or at a derby practice? I've been trying to estimate how much I burn at a "normal" derby practice. Thanks!

That's just for straight skating during open skate and while avoiding kamikaze kids...lol. I haven't used my fitbit at derby practice yet, b/c it's expensive and I didn't want to break it!!!... But I'm sure the calorie burn is pretty high!!!

Cool, thank you!! haha I wouldn't risk wearing it during practice either! But just knowing the 500 is helpful. Thank you!

I love to skate. Quads and Blades. I go to watch roller derby all the time and would love to join, but I'm a bit nervous (about both the time commitment - it's a real sport, with practices several days a week - and about what my job might say, although I'm at a new job since October, and they likely wouldn't mind). Super jealous of all you derby gals - it's gotta be a great workout, and I bet the 500 is accurate.

I do inline skating during lunch. It burns twice the calories of walking for the same amount of time and I need to make that time count. I can't run because my knees/ankles/shins start burning after a few steps. My thighs start to burn after a while but that's a muscle burn. I go Monday-Thursday for 40 minutes (unless it's raining). There's a greenway a mile from my office that is pretty good. The boardwalk is bumpy but it's not too bad. At least it's not bad as long as I don't find a nail with my skate. In October the boardwalk was damp and had a lot of leaves. One of those little piles of leaves hid a nail sticking up about half an inch. I found it with my left skate. I ended up going down right on my rear, hard enough to break my tailbone. No skating for 2 months, doctor's orders. Between that and winter weather, I was out 3 months. I'm finally back to going almost 5 miles in 40 minutes. That leaves me enough time on either side to get to and from the greenway and in and out of my skates.

Another Roller Derby skater here (NH Roller Derby).
I love my quads.

I was wondering, during a standard endurance drill (about 30 minutes a drill, top speed sprints with skills) what do you suppose the caloric burn really is? What about skills drill?
During a bout? Jam to jam?
I have been altering the skating listings available (possibly undercutting myself a little).

There really is no telling. I guess it depends on the drills you skate. I would imagine there are more calories being burned at practice than during a game or even scrimmage. It would also depend on if you're jamming or in a pack...or if you spend most of the jam in the box. I dunno! So many factors!!!

I like to do footwork in the middle"jam skating' haven't measured that yet but just doing shuffle around the outside for 2 & half hours the heart rate monitor was 720 cals for a 5'7 145 lbs I need to measure the middle stuff it is pretty intense