Which is the more practical activity? Well, I think this might be a slam dunk for walking.
Skipped completely over endurance (the answer to that question is: enduranceįor what? Walking is better for walking endurance…). Okay, we’ve jumped outside of fitness and health now, TheĪforementioned auxiliary muscle groups come into play to help control your Muscles in your core to stabilise your body through this motion. Outwards requiring your hip flexors to a greater degree, alongside a set of The movement of skating is pushing down and So the main difference in the muscles used is probably also a (These are the ones above your hip on the side and which stretch around the sides of your middle back, when you are bending around) Hips, hamstring, quadriceps, gluteus maximus and calf (soundīiceps, upper abdominals and lower abdominals (this too?) No auxiliary muscles used Muscles used rollerblading: Upper abdominals, lower abdominals and the biceps Hips, hamstring, quadriceps, gluteus maximus and the calf I promise not to take you on such a long jaunt now, straight to the meat (literally): Muscles used in walking The rollerblader (room permitting) pushes out further than a walker’s steps, left and right, engaging their calves, quadriceps and hamstrings to stabilise and push off in longer intervals than the walker. The skater is keeping their body up against the forces trying to push her back, forwards, left and right, engaging core muscles and hips in a way the walker doesn’t need to.
More useful information here, just imagery):īoth contenders step into the ring. You can imagine this in the fight (totally skip this bit, no Other exercises will burn more of course, it’s not the best calorie burning activity around but compared to walking, it does well. Also, you can probably handle a skate for two hours in relative comfort whereas some other exercises are going to be tough. So, if you’ve got two hours to kill and can’t run for that long, it’s not a bad way to burn the calories. That’s a (healthy) meal of 2 strips of turkey bacon, 2 scrambled Over two hours you’d burn 356 calories more. That’s a decent chunk more if you start talking about the difference between a two hour rollerblade session and a two hour walk, which would be: That’s almost 100 calories more, or about 40% more caloriesīurned while rollerblading over the same time period. So, let’s compare skating with a brisk walk, as a 185 lb Many factors like the heat, your fitness, fat to muscle ratio, will all comeįor a 125lb person, you’ll burn 210 calories rollerblading Of course you won’t burn exactly this, it’s an average. Recruiting more muscles and balancing, but is this always true? And how big isĬalories burned when walking for 30 minutes:ģ.5 mph walk (you’ll do a mile in 17 minutes, so think of the last time you walked about a mile and you’ll get an idea, it’s fairly slow) – For a 125 lb person, 120 calories burned in that 30 minutes, 155 lb person burns 149 and 185 lb person burns 178 calories.Ĥ mph walk: 135, 167, and 200 calories respectively for the those weights.Ĥ.5 mph: 150, 186, and 222 calories burned on average. Sense when you think about it because you’re generally moving faster, So I’ve said above that skating burns more calories – which makes ROUND 1… Calories Burned When Walking Vs. To get to the core of that, I’m facing off walking and rollerblading in a Match To The Death (but hopefully no one will die after reading this). It also doesn’t help you make a choice between the two based on your personal circumstances. I mean, it answers which is probably better for fitness (rollerblading) but it doesn’t give you much detail why, and it doesn’t explore exactly what the precise differences between the two are. Right, well, that wasn’t much of an answer really. If you want to get cardiovascular fitness rollerblading allows you to sprint and exert more effort, it also recruits more muscle groups including your core, and it’s a lot of fun. Which is better out of rollerblading and walking? For pure calories burned per minute rollerblading is better burning on average 8.7 per minute versus a brisk walking’s 6.2. You want to lose weight, you want to look good, you want to improve your body and your fitness and enjoy yourself. Your goal is to get the most bang for your buck. You’ve got a choice: walk out your front door and go for a stroll, or strap on those skates and do the same thing with wheels on your feet.