Calories burned walking...just so I can bury it for myself

yirara

MeanderingMammal wrote: »

Christine_72 wrote: »

Is this calculator any good?

http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/activity-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx#change-activity-category

Looks to be about 30% over from my perspective.

I agree. It might be gross calories though.

amusedmonkey

You would be burning 80 calories net per mile or 108 gross. I find this calculator to be pretty accurate.

http://www.exrx.net/Calculators/WalkRunMETs.html

jarablue

For 12 miles in a day I just put down 700 calories burned. Makes it simple for me. I don't eat them back. When I do it is 4 or 500 of them. I am 205 lbs now. Walking has been a Godsend to me this past year. The physical part is one thing but the real kicker was the glue it removed from my brain in processing, emotion, energy. I think that is the most important.

Thanks again for the help.

BrianSharpe

Spliner1969 wrote: »

If you want something that's semi accurate you'll need to wear a HR strap and use a good app of some sort paired with it. Everyone is different, nobody is going to fit into a standard formula.

I wouldn't trust half of the HRMs out there to come even close and we're not all that different......it's physics; mass x distance (the variability of individual metabolic rates - save those with a serious metabolic disorder - is less consequential than you'd think. we all want to be special flowers but the truth is that we're remarkably homogeneous)

BrianSharpe

nehaad88 wrote: »

one generalisation i read was you burn the same number of calories as your weight in kilos per kilometer (a 50kg person will lose 50 cal/km). No idea about the accuracy though.

That's on the high side......50kg =110 lbs. A 110 lb person would burn about 33 cal per mile walked / 21 per km walked