Sports in the snow
That’s how many calories do winter sports burn
Cross-country skiing is one of the most strenuous winter sports.
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The winter holiday season has started! Find out which winter sports burn the most calories here.
What is it about Germans on a winter holiday in the snow? According to a new study, it’s mainly about food! According to a study of the holiday home portal FeWo-direkt, for 53 percent of the 1,000 families surveyed, the culinary offerings on a skiing holiday are even more important than winter hiking, tobogganing or ice skating.
The most popular dishes – and their calories
The most popular is the classic Kaiserschmarrn, which just over half of the respondents look forward to. 46 percent are on Käsespätzle, 41 percent on apple strudel and 34 percent on schnitzel. The latter, however, is also the richest in calories: Schnitzel with French fries can contain up to 950 kilocalories, Käsespätzle around 620, Kaiserschmarrn around 500 and apple strudel also around 430 kilocalories.
After all, the winter holiday also offers many options to burn the superfluous calories directly again. Snowy landscapes offer families with children a wide range of opportunities to exercise: snowball fights, building snowmen or tobogganing can burn up to 350 calories, as sports scientist Prof. Dr. Ingo Froböse reports.
You burn that in the snow
According to Froböse, who heads the Center for Health through Sport and Exercise at the German Sport University Cologne, a one-hour hike in the snow consumes an average of 320 kilocalories. On a snowshoe tour through deep snow, it is another 10 to 15 percent more.
The holiday becomes even more sporty with piste sports, which consume an average of 400 to 600 kilocalories per hour. The best result is achieved with a sporty cross-country ski tour of one hour, during which “converted” a whole serving of cheese spaetzle is burned, says Froböse.
In spite of everything, the scientist recommends a balanced diet – even on winter holidays: “Colorful dishes contain many different nutrients and are therefore healthy”. The simple and cost-saving solution: Don’t always have lunch in the hut, but also cook regularly in the holiday apartment.