Joan Claybrook is the former administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and president emeritus of Public Citizen.ey highway legislation is scheduled to be considered this week on the Senate floor. Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Roger Wicker, R-Miss., want to have the Department of Transportation evaluate these longer trucks instead of recklessly allowing Congress to mandate them.
Save. You won't burn many calories if all you do on a rowing machine is scoot the seat back and forth. But with proper technique -- a strong leg drive, paired with body and arm engagement -- you stand to burn more than 700 calories per hour, depending on your body weight.(Wavebreakmedia Ltd/Wavebreak Media/Getty Images).or example, Harvard Health Publications estimates that if you weigh 185 pounds, you'll burn about 311 calories in half an hour of moderate rowing. If you weighed 135 pounds, you'd only burn 210 calories in the same amount of time.
Calories Burned. Your body constantly burns calories at a slow rate regardless of your level of activity, but when you perform a challenging exercise such as the plank, you burn calories at a faster rate. A person who weighs 150 pounds will burn 221 calories in an hour of performing a plank, according to FitClick. Given that you're unlikely to perform planks for an hour, consider the calories you'll burn in a shorter duration. If you weigh 150 pounds, a plank will help you burn between three and four calories per minute.