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| Ok so Im a big guy that is trying to lose a 50 pounds. I use a calorie counter for food and exercise. The other day I threw musky baits for 8 hours and used the calculator for 8 hours of fishing. It said in 8 hours I would burn 2995 calories while fishing including my normal calorie usage in the 8 hour period...That sounded really high! So for the whole day I would have burned 5191 total calories.
I dont know if there is really a way to tell what you use, but I I found it interesting that they think it is that high. I really use the calculator to track food more then anything else.
What do you guys think? Someone must be a fitness nut on here.
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| I think I offset that with my beverage intake ................ |
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Location: Lebanon,Mo | One calorie per cast... |
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Location: Tonka, MN | It does seem a little excessive but ya never know. There are too many factors that actually go into it like your height, weight, what your throwing, etc. I would say a good estimate if you were fishing for that full eight hours would be about 3000 kcals. To put it into perspective if one to were run at 7mph for 8 hours they would burn about 7500 kcals. |
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| As much as I dont believe that mark, seems way high (and especially with all the snacks, candy and stuff we drink) I can tell you with being diabetic my blood sugar really drops while fishing (obviously cuz it is excercise) so im sure its up there, maybe just not 3000 |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | I think it depends a lot on what lures and equipment one is using. It seems it would be a lot more if one was throwing pounders or Cowgirls and a lot less if one was throwing smaller prop-style topwaters or small bucktails. It might also depend a bit too on how one reacts to losing a fish. It would probably be a lot less if one just said "dang" and shrugged it off and a lot more if one threw their hat down and did a dance around it. And there is the catching verses just casting thing. Seems it would be more if one caught something rather than just casting all day.
I think row-trolling could be a great exercise plan - just turn off the trolling motor and use a paddle. Paddle for five minutes, cast for five minutes, paddle for 5 minutes and so on.  |
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Location: Tonka, MN | bfunk73183 - 9/19/2011 1:02 PM
As much as I dont believe that mark, seems way high (and especially with all the snacks, candy and stuff we drink) I can tell you with being diabetic my blood sugar really drops while fishing (obviously cuz it is excercise) so im sure its up there, maybe just not 3000
Now we are getting into specifics that are a never ending matter. I was just trying to give a simple answer of what was burned in that time and did not equate for their intake. Its pretty much all a big giant guess when it comes down to it. |
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| less cheezburger must be a good start |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | How many calories would I burn soaking a sucker for 8 hours with my eyes closed |
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| Any exercises or activities that are similar to what you do while fishing that are known quantities for calorie burning?
Take what the average person burns in a round of golf and multiply it times 4 for a full day fishing muskies. I think I'd feel about the same playing 4 rounds of golf with a cart as I would fishing muskies all day, but that's just a shot in the dark really.
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Location: New Hope MN | You probably burn a lot more calories on the windy days with big waves... |
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| Jog. There are very few fat runners. |
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Location: Okoboji | really??
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