Manual Wheelchair User Burn Calories 3 times larger

Currently there is a manual wheelchair and use the remote to control it. But people who use manual wheelchairs can burn 120 calories in half an hour or 3 times larger than that using the remote.

Someone who use manual wheelchairs can burn up to 120 calories in half an hour if he is pushing on a flat surface with a speed of 2 mph, or 3 times bigger than the people doing the same thing but using the remote wheelchair.

The number of calories burned is almost the same as someone who is mopping, but if someone mopping within 30 minutes using manual wheelchairs the calories burned will be much that is equal to 258 calories.


These results are based on an article written by Professor David R Bassett Jr. of the Department of Kinesiology, Recreation and Sport Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

In this article he calculates calories spent from a variety of physical activity of people who use manual wheelchairs and summarize it into a single source and published in the quarterly dapted Physical Activity Quarterly, namely jurnak issued by Human Kinetics Inc..

In this study researchers created a questionnaire and analyzed more than 250 studies containing data of energy expenditure for wheelchair use are associated with physical activity.

The results suggests that people with disabilities can benefit in improving their health by doing exercises that can burn calories.

"It may not only encourage people who are in wheelchairs to activities like walking around with his dog or playing basketball, but you can still burn a large amount of calories," said Prof. Bassett, as quoted by ScienceDaily, Monday (31/10 / 2011).

Department of Health and Human Sciences, USA recommends that disabled adults should get at least 150 minutes of exercise per week in order to remain able to get the body and a healthy body.