how do people burn calories when horseback riding?

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I’ve never rode a horse, but it seems like the horse is doing the work while the human just sits there. I googled if calories are burn during horseback riding and I found that riding a horse for 45 min burns 200 calories. How is this possible if the humans not really doing anything except sit on the horse?

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>>> I’ve never rode a horse, but it seems like the horse is doing the work while the human just sits there.

You are correct, you’ve never ridden a horse 🙂

The human is using a lot of core and leg strength to maintain riding posture while the horse is basically making all of that very difficult by being a horse.