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Ernie Trish
Guest
I have a calorie burn question.
Various online sources indicate that a vigorous rowing session will burn about 300-350 calories per
30 minutes depending on a lot of factors. My understanding is that these figures are measuring the
amount of calories the muscles use for the workout. Simple enough.
I have also been reading about calories required to help the body sweat during excersise (example
article at: http://www.infraredsauna.net/medicalinformation.html). This reference and similar ones
indicate each gram of sweat we produce requires about 0.586 kilo calories. Since I typically sweat
1.4-1.5 kg (about 3.3 lbs) during a 45 minute rowing session this would be 820-880 kilo calories.
The question I have is whether to add both the calories used by the muscles during rowing AND the
calories used to maintain the sweat mechanism in determing how many total calories I have burned
while rowing. Adding the 'sweat calories' more than doubles the calorie figure and as such has a big
impact on the dieting aspects of the workout.
Regards, Ernie
Various online sources indicate that a vigorous rowing session will burn about 300-350 calories per
30 minutes depending on a lot of factors. My understanding is that these figures are measuring the
amount of calories the muscles use for the workout. Simple enough.
I have also been reading about calories required to help the body sweat during excersise (example
article at: http://www.infraredsauna.net/medicalinformation.html). This reference and similar ones
indicate each gram of sweat we produce requires about 0.586 kilo calories. Since I typically sweat
1.4-1.5 kg (about 3.3 lbs) during a 45 minute rowing session this would be 820-880 kilo calories.
The question I have is whether to add both the calories used by the muscles during rowing AND the
calories used to maintain the sweat mechanism in determing how many total calories I have burned
while rowing. Adding the 'sweat calories' more than doubles the calorie figure and as such has a big
impact on the dieting aspects of the workout.
Regards, Ernie