One way to calculate.Re: [at-l] Random Ramblings for the day

[tmcginnis@ucclan.state.in.us (Thomas McGinnis)]

     Humans burn right about 100kCal/mile, with little variance to weight 
     or speed. To be extreme, assume 125kCal/mile, times a 15 mile day 
     (125*15=1875kCal), + 2000 for basal metabolism (= 3875), + 225kCal 
     ('cause Jeez, it's dang COLD) = 4100 for a 15 mile day, or roughly 
     twice what a non-hiker might "need." Also, metabolism increases with 
     activity, not lean muscle mass (though they sometimes go together!).


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Subject: [at-l] Random Ramblings for the day
Author:  pmags@juno.com (Paul A Magnanti) at ima
Date:    1/15/99 11:42 AM

     
  "... the men ate prodigiously , six thousand calories  or even more per
day. A modern
athelete seldom consumes more than five thousand, but the calories  the 
men were getting in 1805 contained very little, if any, fat. 
Consequently, no matter how much they ate, the men were always hungry." 
(Ambrose, 200)
but I am willing to bet we burn in excess of  5000.  Supposedly, a backpacker 
burns 630 calories an hour, so if you do a 10 hr hiking day, with rest breaks 
included in that 10 hr stretch, there is at least  4800+ calories burned. As 
body fat goes down, and lean muscle mass increases, the human metabolism 
increases. 
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