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Calories Burnt by Walking |
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How many calories are burned by walking?
Walking is a simplest form of exercise a person can choose to burn calories and maintain a healthy body weight.
An average person when walks at a moderate speed burn 4 calories per minute. Assuming a man with an average weight of 170-180 pounds or women with an average weight of 150-160 pounds will burn 4 calories when he/she walks at a pace of 3 miles per hour. So if a man weighing 190 pounds walks at the pace of around 4 miles per hour then he will burn 5 calories per minute instead of 4 and if a man weighing 160 pounds walks at the pace of 2 miles per hour then he will burn 3 calories instead of 4.
Thus calories burned by walking will depend on your weight, height, body frame, speed at which you walk, time and distance you cover.
Does running burn more calories than walking?
Actually there is no major difference between the calories burned while walking and calories burned while running. Let me clear the myth that running burns more calories than walking. There are different metabolic equivalents (MET) for different activities according to calories burned per kilogram per hour.
For example if you weigh 150 pounds and sit quietly for an hour you will burn 1 MET that is 68 calories per hour.
A runner or a fast walker will achieve the same 8 MET when they run or walk at the speed of 5 miles per hour or 12 minutes per mile. Calories burned per hour and calories burned per mile are similar. Walking at different pace will burn from 2-8 MET and running at different speeds will burn 8-18 MET. From this it seems that there is a lot of difference in the calories burned between walking and running. But the length of the workout will matter, in terms of running for a set number of miles or running for a set period of time. Runners burn almost the same number of calories at the speed of 5-9 miles per hour. However the METs are higher as the speed increases to reflect that they will go for more miles in the same hour. This is based on the assumption that they will run for an entire hour, instead of running a set number of miles. Similarly walkers also experience little difference in calories burned per mile at the speed of 2.5-4 miles per hour.
If they can walk up to 5 miles per hour they can burn same calories per mile as runners. At fewer speed however walkers will burn fewer calories, but they can easily make up the difference by increasing the distance.
Calories burned per mile for a person weighing 160 pounds -
Walking
2.0 mph – 91 calories
2.5 mph – 87 calories
3.0 mph – 85 calories
3.5 mph – 83 calories
4.0 mph – 91 calories
4.5 mph – 102 calories
5.0 mph – 116 calories
Running
5.0 mph – 116 calories
6.0 mph – 121 calories
7.0 mph – 119 calories
8.0 mph – 123 calories
9.0 mph – 121 calories
10.0 mph – 131 calories |
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