How many calories do you burn giving an hour swedish massage?!

How many calories do you burn giving an hour swedish massage?

Im a massage therapy student, and I was wondering on average how many calories I burn giving a "typical" hour swedish massage?

Hi,it's hard work giving a deep massage isn't it? And of course it's going to burn calories, you are walking and using your arms in almost the reverse way of weight lifting, even kissing burns calories!

I found this on a forum for you: http://www.healthypages.net/forum/tm.asp...

It is an answer to someone asking the same question. It's answered by someone who wore a heart rate monitor during work (last but one answer). He is a big guy, so you would use less, but in a day it looks like it's pretty good going!

I also found this calory burning calculator: http://www.self.com/health/activity/calc...

I don't know how accurate it is though. But, you select the activity (it includes an option for giving a massage), the page refreshes and you then input your height and number of minutes you worked, then hit calculate, and it will tell you :)

Hope that helps!

CG.