Burning Calories

[Rockford35]

I think it would be EXTREMELY dependent on hundreds of variables. Elevation change, temperature, humidity, the number of strokes you take, how heavy your bag is/isn't, altitude (higher = more beats/minute of your heart), ect.

I'm doubting this source. The math doesn't work.

R35

[Sandpiper3]

We shall see, ive got VTDivot trying to prove it

[Rockford35]

I was just on another site that said for a 190 guy (ie: me), walking a round of golf carrying his clubs will burn 7cal/min. ASSUMING, he walks the entire time and never drops his bag. Which is impossible.

R35

[Jules150]

I was just on another site that said for a 190 guy (ie: me), walking a round of golf carrying his clubs will burn 7cal/min. ASSUMING, he walks the entire time and never drops his bag. Which is impossible.

R35

if you carry you bag 1/3 of the time for a 4 hour round according to formula you burn 560 calories just carrying your bag. not including swings and such.

[Rockford35]

Hmm.

You still need to burn 3500 calories over whatever your intake is for that day to take off one pound.

That's 4 rounds by my math.

R35

[ol-crank]

I wouldn't be so sure. I've seen it in a couple fitness magazines and a golf one, the golfer averages 2000-2200 calories burned in one round walking. It's not 100% true, but the more sources I seem to find it, the more it validates it.

that hard to find. Walking at 4 miles per hour, a 200# man burns about 700 calories per hour. A course at about 7000 yds is 4 miles, and that is without the extra yards going here and there and from green to tee. Burning 2000 calories suggests that this golfer is having a bit or trouble driving it on the fairway.

http://www.annecollins.com/exercise-...es/burgers.htm
here is a site that says walking at 3 mph you have to walk for 136 minutes to walk off a cheeseburg and fries. It's none my business what you do, but lets not misslead people trying to figure out how to live in a healthy way.

[ezra76]

I lost 4 lbs. in 24hrs. last week. Weighed myself Sat. morning at 151 and Sun. morning I was 147. I didn't do anything but go to the driving range and hit 2 buckets of balls.

[demon]

I lost 4 lbs. in 24hrs. last week. Weighed myself Sat. morning at 151 and Sun. morning I was 147. I didn't do anything but go to the driving range and hit 2 buckets of balls.

and take a huge crap!

[FKA19]

I lost 4 lbs. in 24hrs. last week. Weighed myself Sat. morning at 151 and Sun. morning I was 147. I didn't do anything but go to the driving range and hit 2 buckets of balls.

what 147 . ah man, you need to bulk up lol.

im only 14 and shorter than you (5'10") and weigh 165, and still have no fat at all on me. then again i am JACKED! haha

throw on some more pounds. lol

[ezra76]

what 147 . ah man, you need to bulk up lol.

im only 14 and shorter than you (5'10") and weigh 165, and still have no fat at all on me. then again i am JACKED! haha

throw on some more pounds. lol

Yeah, I really need to. Then I wonder why I've lost 10yds. off the tee. Maybe cause I was over 180 when I started playing might have something to do with it.

[VtDivot]

those calculators assume your are walking and carrying for the full 4 hours. Really you are only walking 4 miles, which probably only takes about an hour.


This website is interesting... the dude google maps his golf course and adds 20 lbs to his weight to account for his bag. He comes up with something like 300 cals. This sounds more accurate to me.

http://www.deeprough.com/index.php/2...-playing-golf/

No if you really want to burn calories the best way is to build muscle, since muscle is burning cals 24 hours per day. The larger the muscle the more cals get burned, this is why a personal trainer will encourage you to lift weights as well as do cardio and diet to lose weight.

[TheOnlyGolfProHere]

Check out pgatour.com. They have short video clips of golf specific exercises. Also, golf fitness on The Golf Channel gives great tips.

[Shiva]

Trust me! this has to do with golf!

Well, ive been searchin around for golf specific workouts and have had already wat sorta ideas id be looking at, came across one on bally total fitness.com... Good excercises, so ill probly use some of that with some of the other things im already doing.

An interesting thing they have on the site is a "calorie burn calculator" with ideal activities. Has three different golf categories - carrying, pulling and carting

Apparently at my weight, carrying my bag for 280 mins (just over 4 1/2 hours which is the avg round up here usually...) I burn 2695 calories! Hmm... interesting.

Not likely. These calculators are so far off its not even funny. You'd get sick if you realized how much work you actually had to do to burn 2695 calories. Usually these calculators tend to both be significantly off target, but they dont and often cant take into individual specifics such as metabolism, what you ate that day, body fat percentages, heat and humidity, etc... a dozen parameters that will skew their ideal calculation. Unless you're 6'6 and 300 lbs i doubt you burn over 800-1000 calories walking a golf course. Highest i'd believe is 1200, maximum.

I'm a sports science major, we had to run so many of these tests its not even funny on people on treadmills, bikes, swim flues, etc..

[Shiva]

The question to me comes down to "Do you want to look fit or be fit?" Weight lifting makes great looking bodies but does little to help the body perform.

Not necessarily true. There are ways of lifting weights to increase size, endurance, flexibility, etc.. Not everybody who lifts weights will go for the Greek God look. I guarantee you Tiger Woods is no stranger to the gym. If you work out properly with weights you'll not only speed up your recovery and endurance, but you'll increase both your explosive power plus your maneuverability and flexibility. All of this can be crucial to adding extra yarddage to your golf game with minimal effort. But, like anything, its meant as a supplement to your practice. Without training your body in the proper motions and doing some dynamic exercises to specifically target the muscles in the range of motion that they will be doing, you may see little benefit from weight bearing exercise.

I havent looked at web sites for golf workouts, but going off the top of my head i'd probably prescribe a lot of hip, abdominal, and lower back exercises, along with some shoulders and light arm exercises as far as weight bearing exercises go. To improve your power i'd work on explosive exercises, probably with pully's and medicine balls that invlove rotation at the hips and waist that mimic a golf swing. A golf swing is really an explosive burst of power. By increasing your explosive power even a light, controlled swing will have far more power than on an individual that has not worked on their power.

Id actually recommend most people skip over the golf work outs and look instead at baseball work outs. The mechanics behind a baseball swing and a golf swing are very different, but the large muscle groups involved are very similar. Baseball batting specific exercises are probably a lot more complex and beneficial because baseball players are expected to be in top shape with powerful explosive energy. This thinking is still rather new for golfers and from what I have seen the exercises seem toned down for older people that are aimed more at increasing flexibility at the joints and increasing endurance than they are at actually increasing power to an already fit body. In training one of the first thing you learn is to train in a manner similar to the task that you want to achieve. This can be taking both broad to mean working a muscle group or several muscle groups, or more specifically to imitate range of motion in an exercise.

Okay well i'm going off on this topic kuz i always do.. so yeah.. hope i didnt babble too much

[Shiva]

I lost 4 lbs. in 24hrs. last week. Weighed myself Sat. morning at 151 and Sun. morning I was 147. I didn't do anything but go to the driving range and hit 2 buckets of balls.

Its mostly water weight. That and possibly an impressive bowel movement Until I started jogging 5 miles a day about 5 months ago, I would fluctuate as much as 7 lbs in 12 hours. I can guarantee your body fat percentage didnt change even a percent. Its a common misconception, but your body really can't burn anything that fast except maybe glucose. And you don't have enough usable glucose in your body without tapping into fat and protein to burn even a pound over night.