Can cross-country skiing help you lose weight? How often and for how long should you do cross-country skiing to lose weight?

Cross-country skiing: How many times per week and for how long should we go cross-country skiing to lose weight?

Find out more about cross-country skiing 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 cross-country skiing and its calorie burn? How much time per week can cross-country skiing help you lose weight and achieve results? Here are some answers.

Calories burned by cross-country skiing!

Cross-country skiing is one of the sports that helps you burn as many calories as possible. The effort involved in skiing, combined with the cold, demands constant energy from the body and boosts cardio-training. In fact, cross-country skiing burns between 300 and 1,000 calories per hour of practice. What’s more, cross-country skiing strengthens and tones the whole body. This is important because it helps to improve basal metabolic rate (energy expenditure at rest). Although cross-country skiing is fun and ‘caloriphage’, unfortunately it cannot be practised all year round. So, as well as eating a balanced diet, it is advisable to complement it with another physical activity to get back into shape effectively and sustainably.

What is the metabolic equivalence of cross-country skiing?

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. Moderate cross-country skiing, for example, is a medium-intensity activity with a MET value of 7, which means that it burns 7 times more energy than at rest, in the same way as moderate stepping or medium-effort cycling

Cross-country skiing: 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 cross-country skiing training plans!

Do you know how much weight you lose by doing 30 minutes, 1 hour or 2 hours of cross-country skiing? 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”: List of cross-country skiing programmes Hiking 7km/h over 1 month!