BURN FAT FAST - 1000 Cal/Hr - Snowshoing

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Cold Weather.... BURN FAT FAST --- Go outside and play.....
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Fitness Advantages

"Even if you snowshoe slowly,about two miles per hour,your caloric
expenditure will be about eight calories per minute, or 480 calories per
hour," says Declan Connolly, PhD, director of the human performance
laboratory at the University of Vermont. If you step up the pace to
three miles per hour, Connolly says, you can burn up to 1,000 calories
in an hour. Caloric consumption, however, is not the only benefit of
snowshoeing.

Connolly and his colleagues have conducted a number of studies in the
past few years to test the effects of a snowshoe workout. In addition to
burning a ton of calories, they found that snowshoeing leads to
significant improvements in workout time to exhaustion and VO2 Max
(maximum lung capacity). In fact, athletes completing a snowshoe
training program showed greater improvement in VO2 Max than athletes who
completed a similar running program.

So what does this mean to you? Bottom line: if you strap on a pair of
snowshoes and hit the trails, you are going to get a killer workout.

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Cold Weather.... BURN FAT FAST --- Go outside and play.....

So what does this mean to you? Bottom line: if you strap on a pair of
snowshoes and hit the trails, you are going to get a killer workout. BRBR

It's hard work. So is cross country skiing, at least when you aren't good at
it.

Of course, for some of us, even GETTING to snow this time of the year
means a lot of careful planning.

Aramanth
(in sunny south Australia, where we are expecting 38C/100F today...)

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Peter
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website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo
"Aramanth Dawe" wrote in message
...
Of course, for some of us, even GETTING to snow this time of the year
means a lot of careful planning.

Aramanth
(in sunny south Australia, where we are expecting 38C/100F today...)

LMAO, I had a bizarre image flash through my mind of Aramanth riding
cross-country in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, to get to the mountains to
ski ...

--
Peter
270/219/180
website: http://users.thelink.net/marengo
"Aramanth Dawe" wrote in message
...
Of course, for some of us, even GETTING to snow this time of the year
means a lot of careful planning.

Aramanth
(in sunny south Australia, where we are expecting 38C/100F today...)

LMAO, I had a bizarre image flash through my mind of Aramanth riding
cross-country in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, to get to the mountains to
ski ...

On 23 Dec 2004 04:07:26 GMT, Xray586 wrote:

So what does this mean to you? Bottom line: if you strap on a pair of
snowshoes and hit the trails, you are going to get a killer workout.
BRBR

It's hard work. So is cross country skiing, at least when you aren't
good at
it.

Cross country skiing is hard, especially if you're not a groomed trail.

--
Bob in CT

On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 02:02:05 -0500, "marengo" marengo@ cox.net
wrote:

"Aramanth Dawe" wrote in message
.. .
Of course, for some of us, even GETTING to snow this time of the year
means a lot of careful planning.

Aramanth
(in sunny south Australia, where we are expecting 38C/100F today...)

LMAO, I had a bizarre image flash through my mind of Aramanth riding
cross-country in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, to get to the mountains to
ski ...

Even in the mountains this time of year there's no snow. It's
SUMMER, so all the alpine resorts are covered in greenery rather than
whitery! And Priscilla is WAY too tacky for me. Now, a nice little
cruise on the QE2 or something equally upmarket to one of your little
northern-hemisphere places would be just the thing. Especially
tonight, when my poor little footsies are hurting after providing for
(and cleaning up after) a Christmas Feast for 9.

Aramanth

Here in Las Vegas, the temp is supposed to stay around 50F today, with sunny
skies and very little wind. Sounds like an almost perfect day, but I'm
recuperating from a nasty bout with the flu so I'll be staying indoors
anyway. Fortunately, I don't have to go back to work until Tuesday...by that
time, I'm hoping to feel a lot better and able to get back on track with
Atkins. Right now I'm just in a holding pattern and feeling very fortunate
every day that I maintain my present weight without gaining.

Patte


"Aramanth Dawe" wrote in message
...
Of course, for some of us, even GETTING to snow this time of the year
means a lot of careful planning.

Aramanth
(in sunny south Australia, where we are expecting 38C/100F today...)

Bob M wrote:
On 23 Dec 2004 04:07:26 GMT, Xray586 wrote:

So what does this mean to you? Bottom line: if you strap on a pair of
snowshoes and hit the trails, you are going to get a killer workout.
BRBR

It's hard work. So is cross country skiing, at least when you aren't
good at
it.

Cross country skiing is hard, especially if you're not a groomed trail.

LOL! I went xc skiing with my oldest son recently, he of the 4x weekly
workouts at the gym. There were the panting pleas, "Hey, Dad, slow down,"
and the frequent "stopping to adjust my skis," and, my favorite, "When do
we get to the slidey part that just goes downhill?"

I've tried snowshoeing. Boy howdy, that's some hard slogging.

Dan
325/192/190
Atkins since 1/1/02 (yeah, it was a New Year's Resolution)
Besetting sins: good beer, German bread, and Krispy Kremes

Bob M wrote:
On 23 Dec 2004 04:07:26 GMT, Xray586 wrote:

So what does this mean to you? Bottom line: if you strap on a pair of
snowshoes and hit the trails, you are going to get a killer workout.
BRBR

It's hard work. So is cross country skiing, at least when you aren't
good at
it.

Cross country skiing is hard, especially if you're not a groomed trail.

LOL! I went xc skiing with my oldest son recently, he of the 4x weekly
workouts at the gym. There were the panting pleas, "Hey, Dad, slow down,"
and the frequent "stopping to adjust my skis," and, my favorite, "When do
we get to the slidey part that just goes downhill?"

I've tried snowshoeing. Boy howdy, that's some hard slogging.

Dan
325/192/190
Atkins since 1/1/02 (yeah, it was a New Year's Resolution)
Besetting sins: good beer, German bread, and Krispy Kremes