how many calories burned in 60 min's of walking briskly?

CHAR1105

I'm new on MFP and am presently on day 5 of logging my calories and exercising. So far so good. But I am getting a bit frustrated with logging exercise daily. I have a baby and so I find it easiest to fit in a 60 min walk each day. I am walking what I would call "briskly". But I don't know how many calories I am burning. When I search exercise for "walking", I can't really find exactly what I am doing for as long as I am doing it. I know that you can create your own entry but in order to do that I have to type in the calories burned and I don't know that. Can anyone out there give me a general estimate of how many calories I may be burning walking briskly for 60 min? I know it varies with each person given different factors but there must be an "approximate" number?

TeaBea

I'm new on MFP and am presently on day 5 of logging my calories and exercising. So far so good. But I am getting a bit frustrated with logging exercise daily. I have a baby and so I find it easiest to fit in a 60 min walk each day. I am walking what I would call "briskly". But I don't know how many calories I am burning. When I search exercise for "walking", I can't really find exactly what I am doing for as long as I am doing it. I know that you can create your own entry but in order to do that I have to type in the calories burned and I don't know that. Can anyone out there give me a general estimate of how many calories I may be burning walking briskly for 60 min? I know it varies with each person given different factors but there must be an "approximate" number?

Calorie burns depend upon height, weight, age, gender, exertion level & more. MFP will give estimates. Higher miles per hour = more calories, hills = more calories. On-line calculators are going to be a guess.

Here's one calculator below. To get the distance, drive your route (or use a cell phone ap). A pedometer could help you with distance also.

http://walking.about.com/library/cal/uccalc1.htm

Instead of logging exercise...you could get a cheap pedometer & increase your activity level accordingly.

<5000 steps/day may be used as a sedentary lifestyle
5000-7499 steps/day is typical of daily activity might be considered low active
7500-9999 likely includes some volitional activities considered somewhat active
10,000 steps/day indicates the point that should be used to classify individuals as active
>12500 steps/day are likely to be classified as highly active

A third option is to use TDEE ....total daily energy expenditure .....less a %. With TDEE you plug in the exercise that you will do....you get a flat rate to take a calorie deficit away from. Then you don't log exercise here.

http://scoobysworkshop.com/calorie-calculator/

CHAR1105

Thanks so much! I will try these for sure!