Calories
Burned Shoveling Snow
First, convert
your weight to kilograms by dividing by 2.2
Example: a 150 pound person = 68.2 kilos.
Here are the conversions,
you'll have to decide how fat and intense you shoveled and
also take into account how heavy the snow is.
The following numbers are based on ONE HOUR's worth of work.
That that into consideration on how long you shoveled.
Light Powdery snow, light effort (moving less
than 10 pounds per minute)
Use kilo weight x 5.0 = calories per hour
Quite a few inches of powder or couple inches
heavier snow (moving about 10-15 pounds per minute), moderate
effort
Kilo weight x 7.0 = cals per hour
Heavy wet snow, hard effort (moving over 16
pounds per minute)
Kilo weight x 9.0 = cals per hour
Brutal midwest and east coast ‘poundings’
of wet snow (I’m going to die with this effort)
Kilo weight x 11 or 12.0 = cals per hour
These factors I'm using are
METS or metabolic equivalents determined by the American College
of Sports Medicine
