Found an interesting site that calculates the amount of calories you burn doing a particular activity for a specific amount of time. They give you a list of activities, you choose one then input how many minutes you do said activity, your weight and click it calculates how many calories you burn and has a chart showing how many pounds are lost per amount of calories burnt.
http://www.fhma.com/calories.htm
Yes it has Karate listed, but it's the only MA listed. No, they don't have caving :miffer: listed but rock-climbing is the closest... but it's not quite the same thing.
What's interesting though is what they calculate for Karate for say 50 minutes (an average class length ?)for a guy my weight (145) is 350 calories which according to the chart I've only lost somewhere between .06 and 0.125 pounds.
Not, that a guy my weight needs to lose anymore anyway. But you get the idea.
Now of course they don't specify what type of Karate and what all you'd be doing in any given class. You might be doing forms one day and then sparring the next and katas the next day or whatever! So call it all a rough estimate.
You could play with it and if you see an activity that you like and need to shed some poundage while doing it... you can guessimate how long it would take in an average day/workout doing it and know you need to do this much to lose that much weight.
Ehhh, no.
Try it out anyway. Worth a look.
http://www.fhma.com/calories.htm
Yes it has Karate listed, but it's the only MA listed. No, they don't have caving :miffer: listed but rock-climbing is the closest... but it's not quite the same thing.
What's interesting though is what they calculate for Karate for say 50 minutes (an average class length ?)for a guy my weight (145) is 350 calories which according to the chart I've only lost somewhere between .06 and 0.125 pounds.
Not, that a guy my weight needs to lose anymore anyway. But you get the idea.
Now of course they don't specify what type of Karate and what all you'd be doing in any given class. You might be doing forms one day and then sparring the next and katas the next day or whatever! So call it all a rough estimate.
You could play with it and if you see an activity that you like and need to shed some poundage while doing it... you can guessimate how long it would take in an average day/workout doing it and know you need to do this much to lose that much weight.
Ehhh, no.
Try it out anyway. Worth a look.
