A table in todays's Sport magazine compares indoor sports by the calories they burn off in an hour.
Like the Forbes study from a few years back, squash comes out on top, but it's food/drink equivalency stats that catch the eye ...
Squash is the top indoor sport for burning calories, with 816 burned per hour (assuming a body weight of 150 lbs) - the stats are actually taken from the health/exercise website http://caloriecount.about.com .
Most fun is comparing the calories burned against items of food or drink. The table below is for an hour of squash:
Below: A comparison of indoor sports showing calories burned per hour
http://caloriecount.about.com
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Friday 27 February 2009
1.2 Big Macs (with cheese) or 10 glasses of wine
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