Calories burned from standing?

LewisAbrahams

Hi all,

As a rough estimate, how many calories would one burn per hour from standing up?

Regards

lynn_glenmont

Standing is a 1.59 METS activity. Multiply your hourly RMR by 1.59, then subtract your hourly RMR from the result. The difference is how much extra you burn from standing than you would sitting at rest.

Jthanmyfitnesspal

0.1kcal per minute for women and 0.19kcal per minute for men.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29385357

Thanks for asking, which led me to find such an authoritative paper!

Mov3mor3

I don't know the calculations, but if you are morbidly obese you will burn a lot more calories than a smaller person. I will tell you that standing up burns a lot more calories than sitting on the couch.

AnnPT77

After41 wrote: »

I don't know the calculations, but if you are morbidly obese you will burn a lot more calories than a smaller person. I will tell you that standing up burns a lot more calories than sitting on the couch.

The METS calculation above is based on RMR, and RMR estimates vary with body size, so weight is factored into that one.

Jthanmyfitnesspal

After41 wrote: »

I don't know the calculations, but if you are morbidly obese you will burn a lot more calories than a smaller person. I will tell you that standing up burns a lot more calories than sitting on the couch.

Not as many as you would think, according to the paper I found. Your joints might get tired and sore from it, but your muscles are just barely working when you stand still (relative to walking, for example).

JeromeBarry1

If you're asking about a standing desk, juststand.org.

Tedebearduff

LewisAbrahams wrote: »

Hi all,

As a rough estimate, how many calories would one burn per hour from standing up?

Regards

This doesn't count as excersie and your daily activity goal would dictate this kind of thing. Like if you work a cash register all day ... I would be slightly active... I once saw someone log reading as a caloric burn ....