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re: Medieval farmers ate 7000-9000 calories a dsy
Posted on 2/19/24 at 8:32 pm to Powerman
Posted on 2/19/24 at 8:32 pm to Powerman
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He's 6'4" and training for the olympics That's a lot different than an average dude doing farm work all day
And he wasn’t training 12 hours per day.
Chopping wood burns 500cal per hour
Do that for 12 hours and that’s 6000 cal. You burn another 2000 just being alive so now you’re at 8000 which is between 7-9k
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Posted on 2/19/24 at 8:36 pm to Robin Masters
No idea what the calories per day were, but I do know it took a huge amount of food to supply the crews building the transcontinental railroad. Which was all manual labor at that time. No steam shovels or track laying machines.
eta-Hell, I worked a summer on a section crew for a shortline railroad back in the 80s and we did everything by hand and I at like a horse and never gained weight. Got pretty damn powerful though.
A lot of those "skinny" farmers are a lot stronger than they look for the same reason.
eta-Hell, I worked a summer on a section crew for a shortline railroad back in the 80s and we did everything by hand and I at like a horse and never gained weight. Got pretty damn powerful though.
A lot of those "skinny" farmers are a lot stronger than they look for the same reason.
This post was edited on 2/19/24 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 2/19/24 at 8:42 pm to Robin Masters
quote:That makes me more convinced that the op is ridiculous. No one was chopping wood at full intensity for 12 hours. That's one of the highest calorie burning tasks that a midieval farmer would regularly engage in, and, we still have to create a scenario where the average farmer is doing nothing but that, for 12 hours straight, every single day, to even approach that number.
Chopping wood burns 500cal per hour
Do that for 12 hours and that’s 6000 cal.
This post was edited on 2/19/24 at 8:46 pm
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