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by atmin 896 days ago
I just ran for a hour and burned about 45% of my resting calories. I do this every other day. 3.5 hours of exercise per week sounds reasonable to me.
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How many Calories (I assume kilocalories) is that?

According to this article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/sports/olympics/cross-cou...

>A typical elite cross-country skier will burn about 30 calories a minute during training–by comparison, a 155-pound person on an elliptical machine burns about 11 calories a minute.

On the rowing machine, I can get up to about 500 to 600 Calories in 45min to 1 hour. But I also feel like most people would not work out hard enough to burn 10 calories per minute, especially if we are talking about older people.

799 total calories, 55:33 run duration, 146 avg heart rate. Resting metabolism: about 1800 calories per day.