How to calculate walking with weights?

jmeyer925
jmeyer925 Posts: 326 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Does anyone know of a fairly accurate way to calculate walking while carrying a certain amount of weight?

I wear 17 pounds extra (7 in ankle weights and 15 in a vest). HIGHLY recommend it by the way, but i've eased into that much over the last year to adjust my body to it.

I know there's a "carrying 15 pounds load or infant" option on here, but I'm usually walking at a 3.0 or 3.5 pace, so to me I would be burning more calories than what it lists.

Any thoughts are awesome! :flowerforyou:

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  • corcor90
    corcor90 Posts: 10


    I wear 17 pounds extra (7 in ankle weights and 15 in a vest).

    That...isn't 17 pounds my dear =P
  • wrevhn
    wrevhn Posts: 864 Member


    I wear 17 pounds extra (7 in ankle weights and 15 in a vest).

    That...isn't 17 pounds my dear =P


    truth, that is 22.

    I know this might not help, but have you tried googling it? i saw no help on mfp's prelisted ones. unless i overlooked it.
  • jmeyer925
    jmeyer925 Posts: 326 Member


    I wear 17 pounds extra (7 in ankle weights and 15 in a vest).

    That...isn't 17 pounds my dear =P


    truth, that is 22.

    I know this might not help, but have you tried googling it? i saw no help on mfp's prelisted ones. unless i overlooked it.

    haha yes it is 17 pounds. I didn't feel like writing "two 3.5 pounds each ankle weights" lol. Maybe I should've written "total". Yeah, I looked on the MFP lists and nothing is really close, I suppose people use their HRMs or something to be more accurate. And I did google it and nothing has a definite answer. Think the closest representation would be "hiking", because I think the "backpacking" one burns way more than I feel I really am.

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