A reporter just asked this great question in a health and fitness forum recently and I thought I would share my answer with you here:
Being a native Hawaiian and coming from a history of water
sports, I’d have to say that two of the best forms of exercise with water would
be stand up paddle boarding and surfing.
Stand up paddle boarding incorporates the whole body in terms
of balance and stabilizer muscles when staying on top of the board not to
mention the incredible core workout you get when directing the board on top of
the waves. You also get an incredible
back workout from using the paddle and amazing leg endurance by standing up on
the board at all times.
As far as calories burned are concerned, you can compare a
stand up paddle board workout to an elliptical trainer. Of course intensity of the paddling, strength
of the breeze, and choppiness of the surf will all play a part as will the
overall percentage of skeletal muscle the paddler has but overall the calories
burned will be roughly equivalent. Using
a basic internet calorie calculator you can see that a 215 pound man will burn approximately
555 calories. And a 145 pound woman will burn 374 calories.
-Scott Yonehiro
CEO / Head Trainer
Ballistic Body Fitness
Ballistic Body Fitness Personal Training in Burbank
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