Comment on Water Snek

• khannie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Savage feat of endurance. I wonder how many calories that burns.

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  • kboy101222@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    All of them

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  • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At high intensity about 14k.

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    • Chee_Koala@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Damn, you can cross the English Channel on roughly 28 Belgian waffles?

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      • atomicorange@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Depends on how well you lash them together.

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  • GCanuck@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I have no source but I recall seeing a before and after picture. The before was fat. The after was skinny.

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    • Zorcron@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A quick google shows people estimating 500-750 kcal/hour when swimming the English Channel. And another big range, but it looks like ~15 hours is a decent estimate for a one-way crossing, so that’s ~7,000-11,000 kcal, which assuming 3500kcal/lb of fat, that’s 2-3 lbs. This is all ignoring the fact that most of the energy burned is actually glycogen and food consumed during the swim, not fat reserves.

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• Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  29 hours and 4 minutes actually.

  sophie-adaptive-athlete.com/…/sta-channel-swim-20…

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