Last year I tracked 294 runs and my app calculated I burned 260,900 calories (over 2,040 miles). Funny enough I calculated my average calorie burn per day of snowboarding at 8,000 calories right between the estimate provided from the article.
A lot of people will talk about calories in/out, but the body is far more complex. For starters diet will dictate the primary fuel source (glucose or fat), a body that burns fat as the primary source of energy will have nearly infinite energy supply while glucose store will empty relatively quickly, and once that’s used up the body will start breaking down the amino acids in muscle tissue and converting it to glucose.
Like you I find nutrition very fascinating, but I’d take that olive oil (healthy fat) over 40 Big Macs any day.
A lot of people will talk about calories in/out, but the body is far more complex. For starters diet will dictate the primary fuel source (glucose or fat), a body that burns fat as the primary source of energy will have nearly infinite energy supply while glucose store will empty relatively quickly, and once that’s used up the body will start breaking down the amino acids in muscle tissue and converting it to glucose.
Like you I find nutrition very fascinating, but I’d take that olive oil (healthy fat) over 40 Big Macs any day.