Circular route Bismarck - Purple Path

Five selected circular hiking trails, a long-distance hiking trail, and a health path form a route network in the Kleiner Berg and 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 undergoing therapy, it is part of prevention or can be used to restore fitness.

However, the following applies to everyone:
• Listen to your body and avoid overexertion.
• Start with a warm-up phase.
• Finish 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 - MHF. Even with two to three hikes, lasting 30 - 60 minutes per week and an increase in heart rate from 50 to 70% of the MHF, your fitness will steadily improve.
Another side effect is the healthy calorie burn. Just after an hour of hiking, the body burns between 280 to 400 kcal.

MET Factor Circular Trail Bismarck 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 burn of 1 kcal per kilogram of body weight per hour at rest. A sample person weighing 80 kg has a resting metabolism of about 80 kcal per hour.
10 METs accordingly represent a calorie burn through, for example, 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. Accordingly, our sample person would have burned 240 kcal after an hour of walking and 360 kcal after an hour of hiking.