Walking made simple
Theham2016
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How Many Calories We Burn While Walking
This depends on two factors and those are your body weight and the walking area. If you walk for an hour, you will burn 400 calories if the average speed of your walking is 4 miles per hour. If you want to burn 100 calories, you will have to walk 2,000 steps or walk a mile. To lose a pound, you have to burn 3,500 calories. If you want to avoid the yo-yo effect, the best option would be to lose a pound per week or burn 500 calories a day, or 5 miles daily.
This depends on two factors and those are your body weight and the walking area. If you walk for an hour, you will burn 400 calories if the average speed of your walking is 4 miles per hour. If you want to burn 100 calories, you will have to walk 2,000 steps or walk a mile. To lose a pound, you have to burn 3,500 calories. If you want to avoid the yo-yo effect, the best option would be to lose a pound per week or burn 500 calories a day, or 5 miles daily.
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tlarue2016 wrote: »How Many Calories We Burn While Walking
This depends on two factors and those are your body weight and the walking area. If you walk for an hour, you will burn 400 calories if the average speed of your walking is 4 miles per hour. If you want to burn 100 calories, you will have to walk 2,000 steps or walk a mile. To lose a pound, you have to burn 3,500 calories. If you want to avoid the yo-yo effect, the best option would be to lose a pound per week or burn 500 calories a day, or 5 miles daily.
or just to eat 500 calories less per day than you burn and walk for the health benefits.8 -
The what now?9
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TavistockToad wrote: »The what now?
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You forget one factor in your calories burned equation - weight.
100 cals/mile is the rule of thumb for a 180lb person. 65 cals/mile for a 120lb person. At 206lbs, I burn about 120cals/mile.9 -
tlarue2016 wrote: »How Many Calories We Burn While Walking
This depends on two factors and those are your body weight and the walking area. If you walk for an hour, you will burn 400 calories if the average speed of your walking is 4 miles per hour. If you want to burn 100 calories, you will have to walk 2,000 steps or walk a mile. To lose a pound, you have to burn 3,500 calories. If you want to avoid the yo-yo effect, the best option would be to lose a pound per week or burn 500 calories a day, or 5 miles daily.
4 miles an hour? Have you tested this on a treadmill? It took me a few months to build up to 4 miles per hour on a treadmill (a flat, even surface). But if my preferred method is walking outdoors, no way do I trust myself to walk that fast on an uneven surface. Maybe someone with longer legs can do this easily (I'm 5'5").5 -
I do 4 miles (outside rain or shine) every morning in just under an hour, according to AW, it’s closer to 275 cals.4
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tlarue2016 wrote: »How Many Calories We Burn While Walking
Per mile, is bodyweight in pounds ÷ 33 -
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Calliope610 wrote: »You forget one factor in your calories burned equation - weight.
100 cals/mile is the rule of thumb for a 180lb person. 65 cals/mile for a 120lb person. At 206lbs, I burn about 120cals/mile.
And I burn less than 35 calories/mile. Barely a slice of 40 calorie bread
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I sync Map My Walk with MFP and then don't need to worry about it. I don't burn as much as I'd like per mile, but it's an easy exercise that I enjoy and one that I never have to worry about how to log. I walk at about a 17 min/mile pace right now since half the sidewalks are slippery with snow, but in the summer I average closer to 16 min/mile or about 3.7 mph.3
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I've found this formula to be very accurate for me, Weight in pounds X .3 X miles.2
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tlarue2016 wrote: »How Many Calories We Burn While Walking
This depends on two factors and those are your body weight and the walking area. If you walk for an hour, you will burn 400 calories if the average speed of your walking is 4 miles per hour. If you want to burn 100 calories, you will have to walk 2,000 steps or walk a mile. To lose a pound, you have to burn 3,500 calories. If you want to avoid the yo-yo effect, the best option would be to lose a pound per week or burn 500 calories a day, or 5 miles daily.
Personally, I burn approx. 200 calories per hour walking 5 km/hour (3 mph).
4 mph is fast ... I've done it on the odd occasion, but only when I've been walking a lot and built up to it ... but highly unlikely you're burning 400 calories by upping the speed slightly like that. The 275 cal/hour someone else mentioned is much more realistic.
Also ... we burn calories just living our lives. I can get that 500 calorie deficit by eating 250 cal less than maintenance and going for a 1 hour and 15 min walk at 5 km/h.
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tlarue2016 wrote: »How Many Calories We Burn While Walking
This depends on two factors and those are your body weight and the walking area. If you walk for an hour, you will burn 400 calories if the average speed of your walking is 4 miles per hour. If you want to burn 100 calories, you will have to walk 2,000 steps or walk a mile. To lose a pound, you have to burn 3,500 calories. If you want to avoid the yo-yo effect, the best option would be to lose a pound per week or burn 500 calories a day, or 5 miles daily.
Honey I weigh 107 lbs. Even running much faster than 4 mph isn't going to get me a 400 calorie burn. You really need to rethink this post.4 -
I weigh 158# and NEVER walk or hike faster than an ave of 2.5 mph.
On my last hike over relatively flat terrain, I burned about 1600 cals in 4 hrs covering 9.75 miles.
On an earlier hike over very steep terrain w/inclines of 10-15 degrees, I burned about 1800 cals in 3 hrs covering 7.0 miles.
I use the following online calucator to estimate the cals burned, which takes into account your body wt, pack weight, time, distance, type of terrain and degree of slope.
https://caloriesburnedhq.com/calories-burned-hiking/
I find it very accurate for this purpose.
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I thought walking WAS simple!
Everyday is a school day on MFP.
Just wondering what is this yo-yo effect that you refer to. HIt me up with the knowledge.3 -
mmmm whatever3
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tlarue2016 wrote: »How Many Calories We Burn While Walking
This depends on two factors and those are your body weight and the walking area. If you walk for an hour, you will burn 400 calories if the average speed of your walking is 4 miles per hour. If you want to burn 100 calories, you will have to walk 2,000 steps or walk a mile. To lose a pound, you have to burn 3,500 calories. If you want to avoid the yo-yo effect, the best option would be to lose a pound per week or burn 500 calories a day, or 5 miles daily.
4 miles an hour? Have you tested this on a treadmill? It took me a few months to build up to 4 miles per hour on a treadmill (a flat, even surface). But if my preferred method is walking outdoors, no way do I trust myself to walk that fast on an uneven surface. Maybe someone with longer legs can do this easily (I'm 5'5").
This was just information I shared off a fitness sight in an effort to share info for people might be curious. There are always variables when it comes to burning calories.2 -
Calliope610 wrote: »You forget one factor in your calories burned equation - weight.
100 cals/mile is the rule of thumb for a 180lb person. 65 cals/mile for a 120lb person. At 206lbs, I burn about 120cals/mile.
This was just information I shared off a fitness sight in an effort to share info for people might be curious. There are always variables when it comes to burning calories.0 -
This was just information I shared off a fitness sight in an effort to share info for people might be curious. There are always variables when it comes to burning calories.Calliope610 wrote: »You forget one factor in your calories burned equation - weight.
100 cals/mile is the rule of thumb for a 180lb person. 65 cals/mile for a 120lb person. At 206lbs, I burn about 120cals/mile.
And I burn less than 35 calories/mile. Barely a slice of 40 calorie bread
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tlarue2016 wrote: »How Many Calories We Burn While Walking
This depends on two factors and those are your body weight and the walking area. If you walk for an hour, you will burn 400 calories if the average speed of your walking is 4 miles per hour. If you want to burn 100 calories, you will have to walk 2,000 steps or walk a mile. To lose a pound, you have to burn 3,500 calories. If you want to avoid the yo-yo effect, the best option would be to lose a pound per week or burn 500 calories a day, or 5 miles daily.
Honey I weigh 107 lbs. Even running much faster than 4 mph isn't going to get me a 400 calorie burn. You really need to rethink this post.
This was just information I shared off a fitness sight in an effort to share info for people might be curious. There are always variables when it comes to burning calories.
Please don't be rude.1 -
I thought walking WAS simple!
Everyday is a school day on MFP.
Just wondering what is this yo-yo effect that you refer to. HIt me up with the knowledge.
http://www.fitnesstrainingteam.com/2017/11/21/how-many-steps-per-day-can-help-you-lose-weight/1 -
If you are posting info from another site you should post the link to that site.
Just passing along erroneous information does nobody any favours.
Cheers, h.6 -
middlehaitch wrote: »If you are posting info from another site you should post the link to that site.
Just passing along erroneous information does nobody any favours.
Cheers, h.
http://www.fitnesstrainingteam.com/2017/11/21/how-many-steps-per-day-can-help-you-lose-weight/0 -
callsitlikeiseeit wrote: »mmmm whatever
Please don't be rude.
http://www.fitnesstrainingteam.com/2017/11/21/how-many-steps-per-day-can-help-you-lose-weight/0 -
This is the link I came across with the info.
http://www.fitnesstrainingteam.com/2017/11/21/how-many-steps-per-day-can-help-you-lose-weight/0 -
tlarue2016 wrote: »I thought walking WAS simple!
Everyday is a school day on MFP.
Just wondering what is this yo-yo effect that you refer to. HIt me up with the knowledge.
http://www.fitnesstrainingteam.com/2017/11/21/how-many-steps-per-day-can-help-you-lose-weight/
That's a very incomplete article, and the site has some really nonsensical articles on it. It does have some valid points; weight loss is really simple. The snag is their conclusion is a bit flawed.
Looking at their recommendations it's clear that there suggesting treadmill walking, rather than in the real world. Fwiw 4mph is quite an aggressive pace for most people.
Notwithstanding all of that, walking is very practical for the majority, and useful mobility exercise, particularly as an entry to fitness activities.3 -
tlarue2016 wrote: »This is the link I came across with the info.
http://www.fitnesstrainingteam.com/2017/11/21/how-many-steps-per-day-can-help-you-lose-weight/
This is not meant to be rude, but informational. This article is simply an opinion piece with no link to any source that would validate the information. It's also incomplete, as it mentions weight as a factor in calories burned, then never factors that into the rest of the article, which is why you're getting pushback on the calories burned.
When posting helpful or informational comments it's important to vet your sources to make sure there's at least some basis for the statements. Articles like this (authored by a generic "admin" in this case) are basically clickbait to get viewers to click on other links that will most likely be sales pitches.3 -
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lmao...the day I burn 400 calories walking for an hour. I'd be lean as crap if that were true.2
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