Harvard Medical Calories Burned by Activity Link

StevefromMichigan

I stumbled across this a while back and thought I would share. The chart estimates how many calories are burned for various activities at three different body weights:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-weight-loss/calories-burned-in-30-minutes-of-leisure-and-routine-activities

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PAV8888

Your activities appear to be net, I.e stated as an added burn.

But added to what? Added to BMR? Added to sedentary? Added to a more active setting?

Each setting in mfp represents BMR x an activity factor. 1.25, 1.4, 1.6, and 1.8x BMR respectively for sedentary through highly active.

MFP assumes you burn that each and every minute.

MFP and most activity calculators/fitness watches etc use the "compendium of physical activities" (MET values) as the basis for their calculations

People tell each other to not eat all of their exercise calories because mfp doesn't subtract the base BMR + activity factor calories for the duration of the exercise (or didn't do so when I looked a few years back)

However devices like Fitbits do (and also adjust intensity in five minute increments instead of assuming constant intensity for the duration of the exercise).

The adjustment you get from connected devices are net of your original activity setting... and much simpler to deal with than trying to manually figure out individual activity burns. Of course, and sadly, not all activities can be automatically captured and those would require manual fiddling... maybe in the future!!!

sijomial

Not impressed:
The cycling ones are pure fantasy.
The running ones are badly inflated from a quick sample.

Psychgrrl

No accounting for gender, age or heart rate. Not really useful to me. But, thanks!

StevefromMichigan

JerSchmare wrote: »

kazgorat1 wrote: »

I stumbled across this a while back and thought I would share. The chart estimates how many calories are burned for various activities at three different body weights:

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-weight-loss/calories-burned-in-30-minutes-of-leisure-and-routine-activities

Thanks OP. It’s a bit over simplistic. But, I guess in a pinch it could work.

Rather than adding calories for every workout, have you looked into the TDEE method?

I don't eat back my calories, so I don't really add them to anything. I posted the link in case someone was unsure what the general estimated calorie expenditure was for an activity.

corinasue1143

Thanks for sharing. Interesting.