text: Rather than measure per minute it would be better to measure by game or by frame, or more accurately per ball thrown. The only workout will be getting up picking up your ball and chucking it down the alley. It will depend on how you do it too. An old guy will stand out there by the line, swing his body and let go. A young pro will stand with his heels dangling off the back taking 5 giant steps and grunting louder than a footabll cheerleader caught in a tackle as he hurks it out there at 25 miles an hour. \n\nYou can get someone to give you a table that shows estimates, but that estimate will vary wildly. Are there 5 people on your lane for that hour so they slowed you down, etc. \n\nHere is what I would do to estimate. Its 12 feet from the first dots or 15 feet from the second, those feet I do twice as much workout as normal walking cause I am carrying a 16 pound ball and walking funny. The rest of the feet from the seat to the ball and back I walk normal. I get about 4 strikes per game average so in 10 frames I throw 2 balls 6 times one ball 4 times. \n\nThe walking trips from:\n the seat to the ball 15 ft\n bowl is 12ft for me times 2\n  the end back to the ball 12ft\n  bowl again 12ft times 2\n back to my seat 15ft alley plus 15ft to seat\n\n so either 69ft per strike or 105 ft per spare/open.\n\neach game then is 6*105+4*69= 906ft or about 1/6th a mile\n\nmy treadmill says I burned about 22 calories in a sixth of a mile, so that would be my estimate, 22 calories per game. \n\nIf the game is played with 5 people it will take about 50 minutes so thats about 10 minutes a game. If you are playing alone though you will have to go back to your seat between each frame for these calculations to work.\n\nSo that is about 2.2 calories a minute for me, but I am only active one minute of every 5 during my leaague. If my basal metabolic rate is 2400 calories per day, then I will burn an average of 1.6 calories a minute doing nothing. That average is skewed by the digesting of the food, and actually doing nothing in the bowling alley would be more like 1.2 calories per minute. \n\nSo when I bowl with my league I am burning 1.2 calories 4 of every 5 minutes and 2.2 calories the fifth minute for 150 minutes. I burn 210 calories while bowling, or an average of 1.4 calories per minute.\n\nIf you are there to workout try doing these things to make it a better workout....\n\nSit farther from the alley. The seats up behind the setee area where food and drink is served will get you walking farther.\n\nIf you don't care as much about the bowling as the workout take the whole 15 foot approach, have a high backswing and release the ball with as much velocity as you can. This will burn more.\n\nIf you do care about your bowling then add things like picking the ball up a couple of times, raise it up above your head as part of your "ritual" before you bowl, or take it back to your seat every third frame to clean it. This extra heaving around of the ball will take more energy.\n\nYou can also walk down to the other end of the alley when its not your turn to talk with friends there or just check out all the scores and other bowling styles while getting the extra walk. You can even try kegel exercises while in your seat. (yes that was a joke)\n\ngood luck bowling off those pounds!