How many calories does 1 hour of walking burn for a 135 lb female?
oneallmama
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I'm scouring the internet trying to find a good answer... Some sites say 450, and some say 130. I have no idea. Has anyone tracked this on a heart rate monitor? Thanks in advance!
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you could just enter it as an exercise here on MFP and see what it says. It does depend on your speed as well as your weight.0
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yes, i track with a HRM, it depends on a few other factors, like hills, speed, but 130 is most likely closer than 450. I consistently burn about 60 calories a mile on a brisk walk.0
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It depends. I can burn up to 500 calories if I am walking at 3.2mph on a 9% incline. If you are walking flat at about 2.5 - 3mph, probably 150 max.0
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Depends how fast you walk? I would guess somewhere between 150-250 if you are walking on flat terrain at your natural walking speed0
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I guess my next question would be how to find out how fast i'm walking lol...0
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fatfudgery wrote: »
That's gross calories. This link here also gives net calories, which is what the TO should be looking at:
http://www.runnersworld.com/weight-loss/how-many-calories-are-you-really-burning
I find that the equation for running works quite well for me. I log it with 'walking very briskly at 8min/km' here and the numbers are pretty much the same, maybe 10kcal lower than the equation gives. I would think that logging walking here might work with the 11 or 12min/km entry.0 -
oneallmama wrote: »I guess my next question would be how to find out how fast i'm walking lol...
If you are walking outside, you can use a free app like mapmyrun or mapmywalk which will record the distance in miles and therefore your speed (speed is simply how much distance you cover in that hour you walked).
So if the app says you covered 3 miles in an hour, you then go to mfp and select walk at 3 miles per hour for 60 minutes and mfp will calculate the calories burned.0 -
Heart rate monitor is not a good choice for estimating walking calories, your HR is probably out of the range where it can have reasonable accuracy.
Simplest way (not necessarily most accurate) is use a phone app such as Runkeeper or one of the many other GPS based apps.
Once you know your distance you can verify the numbers with this formula:
Net Walking calories Spent = (Body weight in pounds) x (0.30) x (Distance in miles)
So if you walked 3 miles it would be 121.5 cals0 -
I use mapmyrun, and just tell it I am walking, when I am walking instead of running. It even has "dog walk" as a category. It knows my weight (which is the same as yours) and for 1 mile walked at 17 minute pace (brisk but not pushing like race walk by a long shot) it gave me 85 calories burned. This is definitely a pace that could be sustained for an hour so I think a 3.5 mile walk done in one hour would burn 300 calories for you or me, according to their calculations.
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I use mapmyrun, and just tell it I am walking, when I am walking instead of running. It even has "dog walk" as a category. It knows my weight (which is the same as yours) and for 1 mile walked at 17 minute pace (brisk but not pushing like race walk by a long shot) it gave me 85 calories burned. This is definitely a pace that could be sustained for an hour so I think a 3.5 mile walk done in one hour would burn 300 calories for you or me, according to their calculations.
That does sound a bit high, depending on your weight. if I upload my data to mapmyrun for a slow 10 kilometer run that takes just below 80 minutes it gives me 1000kcal. In fact it's more like just above 500.
Using my previous data, walking for one hour at that speed would probably burn about 130ish calories. My weight is 125lbs.0 -
For myself, I estimate about 50 calories per 1000 steps. At 2.5-3mph, a typical walking pace that's not particularly fast or slow, 1000 steps takes about 10 minutes, so it takes an hour for 6000 steps. That's 300 calories. You're different, as you're a woman and weigh less, so you might use 35-40, instead of 50, which gives a range of 210-240 calories burned in an hour at a regular pace, on flat terrain.1
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I am exactly your weight. My fitbit HR tracked my 1-hour walk as approximately 400 calories. However, I was walking at a 4 mph pace (definitely not a "stroll"), so I walked nearly 4 miles (1 mile/15 minutes). Assume that you (we) burn about 100 calories per mile, so look at your distance and then go from there.0
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I am exactly your weight. My fitbit HR tracked my 1-hour walk as approximately 400 calories. However, I was walking at a 4 mph pace (definitely not a "stroll"), so I walked nearly 4 miles (1 mile/15 minutes). Assume that you (we) burn about 100 calories per mile, so look at your distance and then go from there.
100 cal per mile is often quoted for running, which is still too high for smallish, lighter women. There's no way this is net calories for walking on flat terrain, sorry. I would really go with the weight in pounds times distance in miles time 0.3 equation.0 -
I am exactly your weight. My fitbit HR tracked my 1-hour walk as approximately 400 calories. However, I was walking at a 4 mph pace (definitely not a "stroll"), so I walked nearly 4 miles (1 mile/15 minutes). Assume that you (we) burn about 100 calories per mile, so look at your distance and then go from there.
100 cal per mile is often quoted for running, which is still too high for smallish, lighter women. There's no way this is net calories for walking on flat terrain, sorry. I would really go with the weight in pounds 8 distance in miles time 0.3 equation.
Yeah 100 cal per mile for running maybe, not walking.0 -
fatfudgery wrote: »
That's gross calories. This link here also gives net calories, which is what the TO should be looking at:
http://www.runnersworld.com/weight-loss/how-many-calories-are-you-really-burning
I find that the equation for running works quite well for me. I log it with 'walking very briskly at 8min/km' here and the numbers are pretty much the same, maybe 10kcal lower than the equation gives. I would think that logging walking here might work with the 11 or 12min/km entry.
This is the equation I use as well.
.3 x (weight in lbs) x miles = net calories.
You can use www.mapmywalk.com to map out where you walked to figure out distance (or get in your car and drive it).
It's a lot lower than MFP or other places will estimate, but I have found it to be accurate. When I started using the Runner's World #'s for my walking and running my weight loss actually started matching predicted values again.0 -
I use mapmyrun, and just tell it I am walking, when I am walking instead of running. It even has "dog walk" as a category. It knows my weight (which is the same as yours) and for 1 mile walked at 17 minute pace (brisk but not pushing like race walk by a long shot) it gave me 85 calories burned. This is definitely a pace that could be sustained for an hour so I think a 3.5 mile walk done in one hour would burn 300 calories for you or me, according to their calculations.
That does sound a bit high, depending on your weight. if I upload my data to mapmyrun for a slow 10 kilometer run that takes just below 80 minutes it gives me 1000kcal. In fact it's more like just above 500.
Using my previous data, walking for one hour at that speed would probably burn about 130ish calories. My weight is 125lbs.
Yeah, I take it with a grain of salt, but truthfully haven't gained any weight using the calorie burns given by the mapmyrun for jogging, and do usually eat it back, so I think of it as the sum of calories burned while doing exercise and metabolic effect on the rest of the day, it seems to work. IF I ever manage to jog for 80 minutes again as the weekly long run, I would certainly have to eat more.
I jog a lot more often than I record walks but also I don't run a lot slower than I walk - can powerwalk a ten minute mile (9.5km/hr pace), and the fastest I have ever run a full mile, ever is just under 8 minutes (12km/hr). Usual slow jog pace is closer to 12 minutes per mile (8km/hr); the 17 minutes/mile pace (5km/hr) was not an intentional exercise walk. So an intentional brisk walk wouldn't burn a lot less than a slow jog if they cover the same distance, the speed is close.
What I do think mapmyrun wildly overestimates calories on is my yoga classes. I put them in as shorter than they are to compensate.0 -
oneallmama wrote: »I guess my next question would be how to find out how fast i'm walking lol...
Speed = distance / time
Easy way: some kind of stop watch and Google maps.
But speed doesn't matter. Weight and distance do.0 -
It depends how fast. How fast are you walking? How many miles do you cover on your walk?
But regardless, closer to 150. Running for an hour gets me about 400, and I'm just slightly lighter than you.0 -
scorpio516 wrote: »oneallmama wrote: »I guess my next question would be how to find out how fast i'm walking lol...
Speed = distance / time
Easy way: some kind of stop watch and Google maps.
But speed doesn't matter. Weight and distance do.
Speed does matter. It takes more to RUN a mile than to walk a mile (3.5 METS for walking vs 10 for running).1 -
It depends.
I walked 4 miles this morning in a little under an hour and got a NET burn of 296 from my Fitbit. I'm in the low 120's. Now my walk wasn't just flat terrain. There was a couple hills in the route as well.0 -
scorpio516 wrote: »oneallmama wrote: »I guess my next question would be how to find out how fast i'm walking lol...
Speed = distance / time
Easy way: some kind of stop watch and Google maps.
But speed doesn't matter. Weight and distance do.
Speed does matter. It takes more to RUN a mile than to walk a mile (3.5 METS for walking vs 10 for running).
But running also uses more muscles and a 'jump' while when walking one foot always stays on the ground. That's the main reason for the difference in caliries.0 -
shadow2soul wrote: »It depends.
I walked 4 miles this morning in a little under an hour and got a NET burn of 296 from my Fitbit. I'm in the low 120's. Now my walk wasn't just flat terrain. There was a couple hills in the route as well.
All these folks who can walk my jogging speed blow my mind
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oneallmama wrote: »I'm scouring the internet trying to find a good answer... Some sites say 450, and some say 130. I have no idea. Has anyone tracked this on a heart rate monitor? Thanks in advance!
It largely depends how far you walk. c40 to 45 cals per mile at your weight, possibly a bit less.
I'll walk 4 to 5 miles in an hour, so at my weight, 160lbs, c 200 to 250 cals.
If I run, I'll cover 6 to 7 miles, so call it 600 cals0 -
Another option is to link your watch or fitbit or other supported timing device to Map My Fitness and sync that to My Fitness Pal. Your stats are automatically transferred over to exercises. Map My Fitness is another UA app. It works well for me and is user friendly.0
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blues4miles wrote: »shadow2soul wrote: »It depends.
I walked 4 miles this morning in a little under an hour and got a NET burn of 296 from my Fitbit. I'm in the low 120's. Now my walk wasn't just flat terrain. There was a couple hills in the route as well.
All these folks who can walk my jogging speed blow my mind
Me too!
I'm short and walking 4mph is pretty much my max speed!0 -
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annette_15 wrote: »Depends how fast you walk? I would guess somewhere between 150-250 if you are walking on flat terrain at your natural walking speed
this.
for me, it's abut 300. Based on my height, my age, my weight, my gender, and how fast I walk.
I wear a fitbit, and have worn a HRM.0 -
I'm currently 5'7 and 134lbs. Walking at a 12min/mile pace for 1 hour burns about 380 calories according to my Apple Watch.0
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There's a website called mapometer which you can use to measure out a route for walking / jogging. That'd give you your distance and you already know your time.
http://gb.mapometer.com
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