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Posted By John Webster
According to Richard Hawk's Safety Stuff, "It has been estimated that banging your head against a wall every ten seconds consumes 150 calories in an hour"
Can't think how they worked that out, but, on that basis, continuous head banging for an 8 hour day would consume some 12,000 calories, more than a heavy manual labour.
So how come I still weigh 22 stones on my more modest diet??
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Posted By J Knight
Because it's not aerobic exercise; to lose weight you need to head bang while screaming or having a hissy fit at the same time, this will shift weight as well as relieve frustration,
John
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Posted By Descarte
Calories as we know them are Kcal's are then not, so I am presuming the actual rate in comparison to your daily recommended intake of 2000 - 2500 Kcal's would be 0.150 Kcal's per hour.
Im guessing they omited that for shock effect. I can immagine moving your head banging or othewise every 10 seconds, even though it is pretty heavy would burn so much energy, especialy when I can go to the gym for a good few hours and not even burn off the energy of a mars bar!
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Posted By Descarte
Sigh its definately friday, should read:
Calories as we know them are Kcal's are THEY not, so I am presuming the actual rate in comparison to your daily recommended intake of 2000 - 2500 Kcal's would be 0.150 Kcal's per hour.
Im guessing they omited that for shock effect. I CAN'T immagine moving your head banging or othewise every 10 seconds, even though it is pretty heavy would burn so much energy, especialy when I can go to the gym for a good few hours and not even burn off the energy of a mars bar!
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
Trouble is that calories written as Calories with a big C are kilocalories. So who is right and is there any such thing as right. It could be wrong in a very fetching disguise.
Life is one of these things that when you weigh it up there is very little left to enjoy yourself.
The gurus are very good at convincing us how to do something effectively but it only seems to work for them even if we follow it to the letter. Witness some behavioural programmes. By the way I should disappear into nothingness every time I join the M1 at Leeds or M42 around B'ham.
Bob
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Posted By jackw.
You are 22st cos you eat to much.. puzzle solved!!!!
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Posted By Merv Newman
I do not believe that even the most dedicated/frustrated safety person can do a continuous eight hours of head banging. Maybe it just seems like.
However regularly combining a bit of head banging with the more aerobic screaming, leaping up and down and the hissy fit thing, rather like interval running, is diagnostic of a serious H&S contender.
For maximum efficacity the hard hat should first be removed and thrown to the floor (out of the window is, I find, a bit counterproductive. You only have to go and fetch afterwards)
On the other hand, wearing safety boots when repeatedly kicking a door, your desk, or the wall is massively cathartic (satisfying). You can create lots of lovely dents and it hardly hurts at all.
Actually punching the wall (with or without PPE) often results in a LTI and could, conceivably, become RIDDOR reportable.
Merv (70 kg)
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Posted By gham
In tearms of food 1 Calorie (or Large Calorie) is a unit amount of heat energy equal to the amount heat required to raise the temperature of 1 Litre (or Kg) of water by 1 degree C at one atmospheric pressure
Fact: if you bang you head off a wall at high altitude you will burn more calories because the air is thinner, this requires heavier breathing which requires your muscles to work harder due to there being less oxygen
Fact: Undertaking such activity with a bump cap, helmet or hardhat will reduce the risk of injury
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Posted By Peter MacDonald
I'm going to listen to Sepultura and some Metallica on the way home tonight in the car and put the headbanging to the test. If i get stuck in traffic will I lose my bear belly?
Rock On!!!
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Posted By Rob Yuill
Peter, the impacts have obviously taken their toll, but no doubt the BEAR will be grateful!
Mind you don't set off the hair bag?!?!?!?!
Rob
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Posted By Brett Day
Merv: "For maximum efficacity the hard hat should first be removed and thrown to the floor (out of the window is, I find, a bit counterproductive. You only have to go and fetch afterwards)"
Would have though that it was a good thing, just think of all the exercise going out to get it !!
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Posted By Merv Newman
Gham,
since you mention altitude as a significant factor in calculating energy equivalents, you were remiss in not specifying that your kg of water should be at NTP (1 atmosphere or Bar, 22 degrees celsius) before applying heat. At anything other than Normal Temperature and Pressure one kg of water is NOT one liter. Tut.
Practical applications of the above indicate that the temperature at which the physical change of state (liquid to gas) occurs varies in direct relationship with the atmospheric pressure and the quantity of energy required to obtain this change of state also varies. Thus Boyles(?) law suggests that one would be unlikely to make a decent cup of tea at the top of Everest.
I think I'm wasting my time here.
Merv
Yes, and you've also had too much lunch. Go have a little nap. (Merv's wife)
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