Circular trail Aschendorfer Berg - Blue Trail

Five selected circular hiking trails, a long-distance hiking trail, and a health path form a route network in the Little Mountain and the Wellengarten forest area. The mixed forest is a relaxing refuge for sports hiking tours, easy walks, or therapeutic walking in all seasons. For hikers and walkers, it is certainly exciting to measure their own performance. For those seeking treatment, it is part of prevention or can be used for the restoration of fitness.

However, for everyone:
• Listen to your body and avoid overexertion.
• Start with a warm-up phase.
• End with light stretching exercises.

Choose your own individual training intensity. This way, metabolism and circulation are optimally stimulated, and the heart stays in rhythm. The good rule of thumb is your personal maximum heart rate - short MHF. Just with two to three hikes, from 30 - 60 minutes per week and an increase in pulse rate from 50 to 70% of the MHF, your fitness steadily improves.
Another side effect is the healthy calorie expenditure. The body consumes between 280 to 400 kcal just after an hour of hiking.

MET factor circular trail Aschendorfer Berg: 3

Calorie expenditure is measured in MET. For the MET = metabolic equivalent, there are two definitions. We choose the simpler one:
1 MET corresponds to a calorie expenditure of 1 kcal per kilogram of body weight per hour at rest. A sample person weighing 80 kg has a resting expenditure of about 80 kcal per hour.
10 METs accordingly mean a calorie expenditure through, for example, sports amounting to 800 kcal per hour. A leisurely walk is rated with a factor of 3 and a brisk hike with a factor of 4.5. Consequently, our sample person would have burned 240 kcal after an hour of walking and 360 kcal after an hour of hiking.