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Horse riding for weight loss: How often should we do horse riding to lose weight?
Everything you need to know about horse riding
How often should you do horse riding to lose weight fast and see results? Does horse riding help you lose weight? How many times per week and for how long should you do horse riding to lose weight and burn fat? The tool below enables you to track the effects of horse riding over a month. Simply select the duration of your horse-riding session—either 30 minutes or 1 hour—and choose a frequency of 1, 2, 3, or 4 times per week to shed those extra kilos!
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Beware, exercise alone is not enough to lose weight!
Exercising helps to burn calories, shape your figure by gaining muscle mass, and increase the basal metabolic rate (calories burned at rest). Thus, exercise has a significant long-term impact on weight control and better health. However, to lose 1 kg of fat, you need to burn 7700 kcal, which represents hours of running.
So what is the right solution?
Exercise and daily activity are guarantees for controlling and maintaining weight in the long term, but as any athlete will tell you, 30% is about moving and 70% is about what's on your plate. Weight loss must therefore be a mix of expenditures (essential) and a diet that does not exceed your needs.
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Horse riding: How many times per week and for how long should we do horse riding to lose weight?
Find out more about horse riding for weight loss!
Regular exercise combined with a healthy diet can help you slim and tone your body, but some disciplines are more effective than others at helping you lose weight. What about horse riding and its calorie burn? How much walking should you do per week to lose weight and get results from horse riding? Here are some answers.
Calories burned through horse riding!
While the horse may appear to be the only athlete in riding, driving a horse mobilises the rider’s physical and mental faculties. Leg pressure, pelvic movements, mastery of balance, concentration and vigilance in the face of obstacles are all tests that require constant energy. Riding generates a calorie expenditure of between 150 and 600 calories per hour of practice. An interesting energy expenditure, especially as horse riding significantly strengthens the lower body. Finally, as well as adopting a healthy diet, horse riding can be complemented by another physical activity to boost the weight loss process.
What is the metabolic equivalence of horse riding?
The metabolic equivalent of a physical activity is a statistical unit(MET Metabolic Equivalent of Task) used to express the ratio between the energy expenditure of a physical activity during exercise and the energy expenditure of an individual at rest. Trotting and galloping horse riding, for example, is a medium-intensity activity with a MET value of 6, which means that it burns 6 times more energy than when at rest, in the same way as hiking and recreational basketball.
Horse riding: Which plan should you follow and how often should you do it to lose weight?
Estimates, calculations and weight-loss results from several examples of horse-riding training plans.
Do you know how much weight you lose by riding for 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours? How often should you train to lose weight and burn fat? The tables below will give you an idea of your weight loss as a function of weight, duration and number of training sessions per week.
Performance, effects and impact ‘before/after’: Walk-on riding
Riding at a walk
Results in kilos lost for 1 session per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.04 | 0.07 | 0.15 |
| 50 kg | 0.05 | 0.09 | 0.19 |
| 60 kg | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.22 |
| 70 kg | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.26 |
| 80 kg | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.30 |
| 90 kg | 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.34 |
Riding at a walk
Weight loss results for 2 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.07 | 0.15 | 0.30 |
| 50 kg | 0.09 | 0.19 | 0.37 |
| 60 kg | 0.11 | 0.22 | 0.45 |
| 70 kg | 0.13 | 0.26 | 0.52 |
| 80 kg | 0.15 | 0.30 | 0.60 |
| 90 kg | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.67 |
Riding at a walk
Weight loss results for 3 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.11 | 0.22 | 0.45 |
| 50 kg | 0.14 | 0.28 | 0.56 |
| 60 kg | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.67 |
| 70 kg | 0.20 | 0.39 | 0.78 |
| 80 kg | 0.22 | 0.45 | 0.90 |
| 90 kg | 0.25 | 0.50 | 1.01 |
Performance, effects and impact “before/after”: Gallop and trot riding
Trotting and cantering
Weight loss results for 1 session per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.06 | 0.11 | 0.22 |
| 50 kg | 0.07 | 0.14 | 0.28 |
| 60 kg | 0.08 | 0.17 | 0.34 |
| 70 kg | 0.10 | 0.20 | 0.39 |
| 80 kg | 0.11 | 0.22 | 0.45 |
| 90 kg | 0.13 | 0.25 | 0.50 |
Trot & gallop horse riding
Weight loss results for 2 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.11 | 0.22 | 0.45 |
| 50 kg | 0.14 | 0.28 | 0.56 |
| 60 kg | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.67 |
| 70 kg | 0.20 | 0.39 | 0.78 |
| 80 kg | 0.22 | 0.45 | 0.90 |
| 90 kg | 0.25 | 0.50 | 1.01 |
Trot & gallop horse riding
Weight loss results for 3 sessions per week
| Weight | 30 minutes | 1 hour | 2 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 kg | 0.17 | 0.34 | 0.67 |
| 50 kg | 0.21 | 0.42 | 0.84 |
| 60 kg | 0.25 | 0.50 | 1.01 |
| 70 kg | 0.29 | 0.59 | 1.18 |
| 80 kg | 0.34 | 0.67 | 1.34 |
| 90 kg | 0.38 | 0.76 | 1.51 |
