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Still not burning 6000 calories. > In our study, we found calorie expenditure during chess competition (156.8 ± 65 kcal) and during running exercise (282.9 ± 8
by czx4f4bd 4y ago
Still not burning 6000 calories.
> In our study, we found calorie expenditure during chess competition (156.8 ± 65 kcal) and during running exercise (282.9 ± 82.7 kcal) were significantly different from each other, simply due to the overload effect of skeletal muscles during exercise.
https://journals.lsu.lt/baltic-journal-of-sport-health/article/view/1163 https://journals.lsu.lt/baltic-journal-of-sport-health/artic...
- initplus 4y agoThis study found that energy expenditure when playing chess was ~2.3x higher than when resting. And these are just amateur players. Maybe it's not 6000 calories but it is a significant increase over the base rate.