did you know that when you skate for an hour for approx. over 9 miles an hour, you burn over 5 hundred calories?

thats awesome....!

ahaha sweet

Nice to know... always seemed like more though!!

and also I don't if it is true but I heard that, for seniors if you skate a 4-4.5 min program it is the same a doing a 14 km jog

Lipinskifan4eva

Skating does burn a lot of calories...the problem with freestyle skating though is that you typically don't skate consistently during a session, especially if you're in a lesson and need to take time to review stuff, or even just getting caught up at the boards talking about something with a friend. I'd be curious to know how fast 9 mph is in terms of speed on the ice...seems pretty hard to maintain that for more than a couple minutes at a time, but then again I'm pretty out of shape lol.

wow thats ace!! i used to eat a choc bar just before skating cos i thought it didnt matter cos i would burn it off skating!! guess i was right lol!!