question about how to calculate cals burned

browneyes1022
browneyes1022 Posts: 83 Member
edited September 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
I went on this site called bodyfatguide.com and basically it broke down how to figure out how many calories you burned. The example was a person weighting 175 and then times that by 2 which would be 350 u then divide 3.5 (which I'm not sure what the 3.5 is unless it is the pace u walked at that's the only thing that made sense) and that person would burn 100 calories per mile. Just wondering if that was true or not? Anyone know?

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  • TrainingWithTonya
    TrainingWithTonya Posts: 1,741 Member
    I've been a certified personal trainer for 15 years and I'm almost through with my bachelors degree in exercise physiology. I've never seen this formula. The only thing I could even come up with for the 3.5 is the VO2 at rest (3.5 ml/kg/min of oxygen consumption) but using VO2 is generally used to figure calories based on a reading of VO2 during exercise and dividing out the 3.5 to get how many times your resting metabolism you are burning during exercise. You can't estimate VO2 by doubling your weight, so I have no idea where they came up with this formula. There are various METs compendiums that are basically the same thing as estimates of the number of times your normal metabolism you are burning during specific exercises based on the lab findings when those exercises were tested to determine calorie burn. Once you have a MET level you just multiply your weight in kilograms by the MET level to get Calories per hour. Here's the METs compendium I was given to use in my bachelors program: http://prevention.sph.sc.edu/tools/docs/documents_compendium.pdf
  • browneyes1022
    browneyes1022 Posts: 83 Member
    I've been a certified personal trainer for 15 years and I'm almost through with my bachelors degree in exercise physiology. I've never seen this formula. The only thing I could even come up with for the 3.5 is the VO2 at rest (3.5 ml/kg/min of oxygen consumption) but using VO2 is generally used to figure calories based on a reading of VO2 during exercise and dividing out the 3.5 to get how many times your resting metabolism you are burning during exercise. You can't estimate VO2 by doubling your weight, so I have no idea where they came up with this formula. There are various METs compendiums that are basically the same thing as estimates of the number of times your normal metabolism you are burning during specific exercises based on the lab findings when those exercises were tested to determine calorie burn. Once you have a MET level you just multiply your weight in kilograms by the MET level to get Calories per hour. Here's the METs compendium I was given to use in my bachelors program: http://prevention.sph.sc.edu/tools/docs/documents_compendium.pdf

    Thanks I thought it was alittle odd I appreciate the info
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