How To Accurately Calculate Calories Burnt When Walking

janemem

How do you log in the speed of your walking exercise? I can only find speeds for whole or half numbers (2mph, 2.5mph, 3mph etc) but my mobile phone often tracks me at differing speeds i.e. 3.8mph, 6.1mph etc
Should I round the number down and increase my minutes or round the speed up and decrease the amount of minutes I log?
I really want to get it logged properly as I walk so much and I'd like to get a fairly accurate idea of how much I'm burning.
Thanks in advance for any help/tips.

DavPul

Your phone app should have an average speed. Use that. If for some reason it doesn't, then 1. Get a better app, 2. Take the distance and divide it by time to figure your average (or the reverse of that; I'm terrible at math), or 3.get a better app.

I've got several apps for this, but my favorite is still the standard Google Tracks. Gives a total time and average speed, and also gives a separate *moving* time and average speed, subtracting out time at lights, standing still and talking on the phone, or doing chinups or whatever at the stations along the trail.

janemem

Your phone app should have an average speed. Use that. If for some reason it doesn't, then 1. Get a better app, 2. Take the distance and divide it by time to figure your average (or the reverse of that; I'm terrible at math), or 3.get a better app.

I've got several apps for this, but my favorite is still the standard Google Tracks. Gives a total time and average speed, and also gives a separate *moving* time and average speed, subtracting out time at lights, standing still and talking on the phone, or doing chinups or whatever at the stations along the trail.

Oh to have an app like that, I'd love it! Unfortunately my mobile phone isn't advanced enough for extra apps. :frown:

My phone will tell me the average speed, highest speed, distance and time but it doesn't tell me calories burnt. I look on the list of activities in the 'Exercise' section on here and usually use those values but like I say, I never know whether to round up or round down.
I've trawled through the internet but can't find any values for more 'odd' mph numbers.