How do I find out how many calories I burn when exercising?

xhereinmyheadx

I'm doing the Get Running program, which is fairly similar to the Couch to 5k program. I do not own a pedometer right now or anything else that is fancy. (low on funds) Can anyone help me figure this out?

For right now, week 1, all I do is walk for 5 minutes for a warm up, then run 1 minute, then walk for 1 minute and 30 seconds. I repeat that for 30 minutes. And then there's the 5 minutes at the end for the cool down. How do I figure out how many calories I burn? I want to figure this out so I can add it onto myfitnesspal to know how many more I can eat for the day!

If it helps any, I'm 5'4" and am weighing 149.2 right now.

Thanks!

yourenotmine

Well, since you don't have access to a pedometer, you can put your route in google, that will then tell you the distance you're going, and you should be able to figure out your pace by how long it takes you. (I'd suggest walking a set distance at the speed you do your walk portion and a set distance at the speed you do your run portion for your test.) From there you can put the number of minutes you did each in MFP's exercise log. Does that help?

charlesb22

Before I got my heart rate monitor, I just used an MFP estimate of m exercise. Turns out they're pretty close.

CynthiasChoice

Well, since you don't have access to a pedometer, you can put your route in google, that will then tell you the distance you're going, and you should be able to figure out your pace by how long it takes you. (I'd suggest walking a set distance at the speed you do your walk portion and a set distance at the speed you do your run portion for your test.) From there you can put the number of minutes you did each in MFP's exercise log. Does that help?

Extremely helpful. Thank you!