Re: RC: Re: Re: riding and calories...

["Truman Prevatt, PhD" <truman.prevatt@netsrq.com>]

A couple years ago I had to get a physical for a visa to go work in Australia.
Since they require a pretty robust physical for this visa, I decided to get a
good physical with full lab work. I am normal is the good news. The first time I
was in we were talking about exercise and horse back riding came up. He said
that should be good exercise and I said that it sure didn't feel like it was
much exercise.  So we decided to put the HRM on me instead of the horse, since I
had his interest at this point.

Well turns out, as I felt while trotting on down the trial, it really isn't very
good aerobic exercise (of course unless they spook). I was running at a posting
trot at about 8 to 10 mph at what I would run on the treadmill walking at 2 mph.

He was actually very surprised since there seems to be a propular belief that
horseback riding is better exercise that it seems to be.

Truman

Karen Sullivan wrote:

> >
> > FWIW, some years ago when Cal Poly was working the bugs out of the high
> > speed treadmill system, we measured O2/CO2 exchange on a human
> > (specifically, me), which is a direct measurement of calories burned.  I
> was
> > riding a horse that was trotting about 8 mph, no incline.  The footing on
> a
> > treadmill is a little different than it is on real ground, but that
> affected
> > his output, not mine.  If memory serves, I burned 75 calories in 20
> minutes
> > of trotting, or about 225 calories an hour
>
> My husband claims you just can't look at calories burned.........but have to
> look at heart-rate to determine aerobic activity...did they do this?
>
> About ready to strap the HRM to ME and watch it!!!!
> Karen (still trying to convince him riding is exercise!)
>
>