Calories Burned Skateboarding Calculator

On average, you will burn about 80 calories every 10 minutes skateboarding. You can burn more than that depending on your gender, weight, and how aggressive you skate.

The best way to calculate the calories you burn while skateboarding is to use the MET formula, which stands for Metabolic Equivalents. The formula is designed to take your body weight, point value for the type of exercise, and determine calories lost.

The formula boils down to the point value of the exercise, multiplied by your weight in kilograms, multiplied by 3.5. The resulting number is divided by 200 and that will give you the calories burned per minute for a given exercise. (MET x kg x 3.5) ÷ 200. There are 0.454 kilograms in 1lb.

How Many Calories Do You Burn Skateboarding?

The MET method assigns a point value of 5.0 for general skateboarding activity and 6.0 for competitive skateboarding. If your body weight is measured at 175lbs, and you utilize the above equation, the total calories lost per minute for general skateboarding would be 7 calories per minute rounded up.

In competitive skateboarding, with the same variables, your calorie loss would be 8.3 calories per minute. All things considered, after an hour of skateboarding recreationally, you would lose 420 calories and if you competed for an hour you would lose a total of 498 calories.

The neat thing about MET is the point value system associated with each activity. It makes it much simpler to determine how many calories you’ll lose in an hour and simple math can break it down to a minute, half an hour, or five hours. 

How Many Calories Do You Burn Skateboarding For 30 Minutes?

Using the competitive skateboarding formula, a 175lb person would lose around 250 calories in half an hour. Using MET, you can break it down however you like, whenever you like. Competitive skateboarding is far more intense than regular skateboarding, so you can expect to lose more calories.

Competitive skateboarding involves more than just using calories. You’re using your hips and legs muscles extensively, with arms and back for balancing purposes. There’s also a great deal of concentration and hand-eye coordination, all of which contribute to calorie loss.

How Many Calories Do You Burn Skateboarding For One Hour?

With the above example of competitive skateboarding at 175lbs, you would lose roughly 500 calories in an hour. Drop your weight to 150 and you would lose 429 calories per hour. Increase your weight to 200lbs and you would lose 572 calories per hour.

So between a weight span of fifty pounds, you would lose anywhere between 429 calories to 572 calories per hour. The more you weigh, the more calories you burn. Since weight means more muscle involvement in your movements, you burn calories faster. 

As you lose weight, you’re not engaging your muscle fibers to the same degree and overall calorie loss begins to taper off. If you’re attempting to lose weight, this can be a disheartening phase of the process, as your later results won’t match your initial results.

You shouldn’t let that dissuade you, as continued exercise develops muscle mass, tones your body, is healthy for your skin, and strengthens your ligaments. 

Can You Lose Weight By Skateboarding Every Day?

You can lose weight by skateboarding every day, however, physical exercise is not the primary, driving force behind weight loss. Think of it as a sculptor who is attempting to mold a gigantic boulder into the human form.

At first, the sculptor will take huge chunks off of the boulder until they have reached a rough outline. That’s the weight loss process and is largely determined by diet. 

The physical exercise is the sculptor’s fine-tuning process, streamlining, turning blurry lines into sharp curves. Combining physical exercise with a proper and healthy diet is the best way to lose weight and redefine your physical body at the same time.