Burning Calories at the BarnBy Kentucky Equine Research Staff · February 15, 2010
An article in Horse and Rider advises readers that they can burn calories while doing barn work.
According to the list of chores, stripping and rebedding a stall (159 calories in 20 minutes) is among the more energy-intense activities. Twenty minutes of currying your horse burns about 166 calories, while riding a trotting horse for the same length of time gets rid of 148 calories.
Lifting a Western saddle on and off the horse is reputed to use 56 calories if you continue the activity for ten minutes. A word of advice: in the unlikely circumstance that it takes you ten minutes to get the saddle onto your horse's back, you might think about getting a different horse.
