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A couple of years ago, I took a half-day hike up a mountain called Timpanogos with my son. According to my fitness tracker, I burned over 8000 kcal on that trip
by hathawsh 8y ago
A couple of years ago, I took a half-day hike up a mountain called Timpanogos with my son. According to my fitness tracker, I burned over 8000 kcal on that trip. It was a bit strenuous, but not painful. The estimate of calories burned seemed reasonable to me.
EDIT: According to this chart, I probably burned around 600 kcal per hour:
http://www.nutristrategy.com/caloriesburnedwalking.htm http://www.nutristrategy.com/caloriesburnedwalking.htm
It took us about 8 hours, so the total was probably closer to 4800 kcal.
In any case, the point I'm trying to make is that it's easy to burn a lot more than 2000 kcal per day.
- paulcole 8y agoYour estimate has already gone from 8000 to 4800 and you're still relying on the unsourced data of NutriStrategy. Who's willing to be the truth is significantly lower still?
- nradov 8y agoNot even close. It's highly unlikely that you burned more than about 3300kcal (and probably less). You can check out calorie counts from hikers with similar times on Strava. https://www.strava.com/segments/8428908 https://www.strava.com/segments/8428908
- hathawsh 8y agoMaybe. My body is definitely less efficient than those runners. :-) According to this site, typical energy expenditure on the Timpanogos hike is 4000-5000 kcal: https://www.bettercheaperslower.com/ways/to-the-summit-of-mt-timpanogos/ https://www.bettercheaperslower.com/ways/to-the-summit-of-mt...
- nradov 8y agoThe people who did it in the same time as you were walking, not running. They were no more efficient.