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page:  Cool off your workout by ice skating  Posted by Nancy B.
The late summer is hot, hot, hot! If you’re interested in
cooling down your workouts while burning up calories, ice
skating might give you some relief. The average 150-pound person
who has a light ice skating workout for 15 minutes burns nearly
100 calories and a moderate workout nets 125 calories. Double
the time and you get, respectively, about a 200- or 250-calorie
burn-off, according to an online fitness calculator I found.
Comments (3) Sort by: Newest first | Oldest first I'm really
looking forward to going ice skating at Rockafeller Center in
NYC this winter, and even on a frozen (very frozen!) lake in the
winter if I can find one. As your body is working hard to stay
warm, can that increase the number of calories you burn in a
given time spent skating? Yeah, I've heard that when your body
works hard to stay warm, you Are burning calories, but I'm not
entirely sure. But something