Circular route Südberg - Yellow Line

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, leisurely walks, or health walking in all seasons. For hikers and walkers, it is certainly exciting to measure their own performance. For those seeking a cure, it is part of prevention or can be used to restore 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 - shortly MHF. With just two to three walks, lasting 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 burn. The body burns between 280 to 400 kcal after just one hour of hiking.

MET factor Circular Path South Mountain: 6 - 9

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