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Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by hathawsh on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:33PM (#16995884)
A couple of years ago, I took a half-day hike up a mountain called Timpanogos with my son. According to my fitness tracker, I burned over 8000 kcal on that trip. It was a bit strenuous, but not painful. The estimate of calories burned seemed reasonable to me.

EDIT: According to this chart, I probably burned around 600 kcal per hour:

http://www.nutristrategy.com/caloriesburnedwalking.htm

It took us about 8 hours, so the total was probably closer to 4800 kcal.

In any case, the point I'm trying to make is that it's easy to burn a lot more than 2000 kcal per day.

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Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by nradov on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:07PM (#16996177)
Not even close. It's highly unlikely that you burned more than about 3300kcal (and probably less). You can check out calorie counts from hikers with similar times on Strava.

https://www.strava.com/segments/8428908

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Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by hathawsh on Friday May 04, 2018 @01:18PM (#16996293)
Maybe. My body is definitely less efficient than those runners. :-) According to this site, typical energy expenditure on the Timpanogos hike is 4000-5000 kcal:

https://www.bettercheaperslower.com/ways/to-the-summit-of-mt...

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Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by nradov on Friday May 04, 2018 @03:11PM (#16997350)
The people who did it in the same time as you were walking, not running. They were no more efficient.
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Re:How Strenuous Exercise Affects Our Immune System by paulcole on Friday May 04, 2018 @12:50PM (#16996033)
Your estimate has already gone from 8000 to 4800 and you're still relying on the unsourced data of NutriStrategy.

Who's willing to be the truth is significantly lower still?

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