10000 steps; 5'5 and ~125lbs?

lemonlionheart
lemonlionheart Posts: 580 Member
edited November 9 in Health and Weight Loss
Hello MFP-ers! I recently got a new smartphone that measures steps with a pedometer app. I have my activity level set to 'sedentary' and am lucky to hit 2-3000 steps on low activity days. Since I've been on uni holidays, however, I've had quite a few days of 10000+ steps from walking around doing gift shopping, walking to the park for lunch etc.

I was wondering, for women around my height/weight, what kind of calorie burn would you estimate for 10000 steps? The app estimated 750 calories for 22000 steps yesterday but that seems laughably high. I'm thinking of making a custom entry in the exercise database for days when I hit 10000 but don't want to overestimate. Maybe 100-150 calories added for 10000 steps? I'd love a few extra calories over the holidays for parties and such!

Are there any women here around my size who use a pedometer as well as a HRM, and if so what kind of numbers do you get for steps walked?

Thanks guys x

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  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    You can probably figure about 50-75 calories a mile, and a mile being maybe 2000-2500 steps, but don't add calories for your baseline amount. So if 3000 is baseline and you hit 10,000, figure 7000 steps is about 3.5 miles, times 75 = around 200-250 calories.
  • Kalikel
    Kalikel Posts: 9,603 Member
    You didn't say how tall you were...or your weight. :)
  • Blueseraphchaos
    Blueseraphchaos Posts: 843 Member
    Kalikel wrote: »
    You didn't say how tall you were...or your weight. :)

    It's in the title lol

  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Hows this? http://walking.about.com/library/cal/uccalc3.htm
  • lemonlionheart
    lemonlionheart Posts: 580 Member
    edited December 2014
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    Hows this? http://walking.about.com/library/cal/uccalc3.htm

    Cool, I wonder if there is one that uses the metric system. It's estimating burns of 250+ calories for 10000 steps, which still seems high to me for something that doesn't really feel like exercise! I might play it safe and put in 150 per 10000. I'm still interested to know what people are getting on their HRMs :)
  • BWBTrish
    BWBTrish Posts: 2,817 Member
    edited December 2014
    That's pretty save yes. my step counter has 445 calories on it at the moment for almost 12000 steps. I always take half of it ( that is true) so 222 burned calories and from those i only eat half back.

    my step counter is pretty the same as the treadmill i use daily. ( with heart rate monitor) so i am pretty safe lol.

    btw i did my pace in it too. and i am the same height as you. Only my weight is much higher so i get a higher calorie burn amount.
  • WalkingAlong
    WalkingAlong Posts: 4,926 Member
    lemonlionheart wrote: »
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    Hows this? http://walking.about.com/library/cal/uccalc3.htm

    Cool, I wonder if there is one that uses the metric system. It's estimating burns of 250+ calories for 10000 steps, which still seems high to me for something that doesn't really feel like exercise! I might play it safe and put in 150 per 10000. I'm still interested to know what people are getting on their HRMs :)
    A HRM isn't made for walking. It estimates calories burns from elevated HR activities like running, and it doesn't do much better than the formulas. The walking formulas are probably pretty close. It may not "feel like exercise" but it takes energy to move a body a mile, just like it does to move a car a mile.

  • lemonlionheart
    lemonlionheart Posts: 580 Member
    WalkingAlong wrote: »
    lemonlionheart wrote: »
    Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »
    Hows this? http://walking.about.com/library/cal/uccalc3.htm

    Cool, I wonder if there is one that uses the metric system. It's estimating burns of 250+ calories for 10000 steps, which still seems high to me for something that doesn't really feel like exercise! I might play it safe and put in 150 per 10000. I'm still interested to know what people are getting on their HRMs :)
    A HRM isn't made for walking. It estimates calories burns from elevated HR activities like running, and it doesn't do much better than the formulas. The walking formulas are probably pretty close. It may not "feel like exercise" but it takes energy to move a body a mile, just like it does to move a car a mile.

    Sure, I get that, I was just trying to be wary of overestimating.
  • Sued0nim
    Sued0nim Posts: 17,456 Member
    my fitbit gives me around 350 for 10K but only starts logging them after about 4000 steps and I'm set to sedentary

    I am much taller and heavier than you so I would allow 200 tops
  • lemonlionheart
    lemonlionheart Posts: 580 Member
    rabbitjb wrote: »
    my fitbit gives me around 350 for 10K but only starts logging them after about 4000 steps and I'm set to sedentary

    I am much taller and heavier than you so I would allow 200 tops

    Thanks!

    I think I'm going to log 120 calories per 10K :)
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