Walking calories vs other calorie expenditures

MeanderingMammal

Christine_72 wrote: »

MeanderingMammal wrote: »

rose_a_lind wrote: »

. I am confused by your numbers? Are you saying you took 2 hours to walk 4.5 miles? Then maybe yes the calories are low because you were moving slowly? If you mean your extra one hour of walking took you 4.5 miles, that's brisk and I think mapmyrun gives me 80-85 calories a mile for that, and their calculations, though I always assumed them high, do seem to work for me as far as eating to maintain weight..

Today the MapMyHike calculator gave me 461 calories for 4 miles in 70 minutes. Whereas, MFP gave me 156, and my Garmin Fitness band gave me 308 on Connect. Oh, ...and my age is 59, if that means anything.

That seems excessive, but it does depend more on weight and elevation. I walk at about 50 cals per mile and run at about 100cals per mile. So a 10 mile run or 20 mile walk for 1000 calories, I'm 160lbs

Fitbit gives me just under 1000 extra calories here on mfp for a 10 mile walk, I'm 5'8 and 147lbs. I do however think it overestimates...

I wouldn't go more than 600 for that distance walk.

rose_a_lind wrote: »

So a 10 mile run or 20 mile walk for 1000 calories

20 mile walk! Who could do such a thing? The day after doing 8 miles I was exhausted.

I'm a marathon runner, so tend to burn large amounts in training.

yirara

There are some empirically tested equations for running and walking. For walking I think it is distance in miles * weight in lbs * 0.3. This is net calories, thus the calories your body uses just to stay alive is not in there, as it should be.