How many calories does 1 hour of walking burn for a 135 lb female?

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.

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.

Depends how fast you walk? I would guess somewhere between 150-250 if you are walking on flat terrain at your natural walking speed

fatfudgery wrote: »

243 Calories.

http://www.runnersworld.com/peak-performance/running-v-walking-how-many-calories-will-you-burn

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.

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 cals

robininfl wrote: »

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.

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.

yirara wrote: »

robininfl wrote: »

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.

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.