North Mimms
Tour Winner
I'm going on the 5:2 diet.
5 days playing golf, 2 days off
5 days playing golf, 2 days off
Baloney! The earlier estimates of 500-600 is about right.According to S Health on my galaxy note 4, 11,000 paces is about 5.5 miles and burns off 875 calories.
As someone said earlier it's around 1500 calories according to a study carried out by reebok.
Myfitness pal is pretty accurate for other activities so why doubt it?
My fitness pal must us some sort of formula that includes time exercising to work out the calories but is miles out, 600 is closer to the mark.
What are u basing the figure 500/600 cals on?
If it is walking 5 miles then u need to factor in every swing, carrying 12-15kg bag and the time involved, also as was said u have to account for the terrain.
http://www.nutristrategy.com/activitylist.htm
Shows cals burned per sport per hour
These figures suggest that a 200lb bloke like me would burn something like 1600 calories over a 4-hour round. It just isn't true. A 5 mile walk (ok with a bag and over terrain) and about 100 swings (including practice swings) does not add up to this amount of calories. It's not continuous walking/swinging - there's a lot of standing around waiting to play etc in those 4 hours. I still think 500-600 is about the right figure.
You will burn the best part of 500 calories sat watching golf on TV in 4 hours.
Indeed. The question is how many extra colours do you burn playing golf. It really can't be 1500. I have just been to the gym and rowed for 14k on a Concept 2 and burned an estimated 750 calories, based on average body weight, presumably. No way is a game of golf twice as collier burning.
Were you rowing for 4 hours? I find it strange that you would trust implicitly the concept2 calorie burning output, but not the scientific results showing calories burned playing golf.
The real question is... Why am I not thin?
Is it a glandular thing?
You will burn the best part of 500 calories sat watching golf on TV in 4 hours.