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Calories Burned Calculator

Find out how many calories you've burned by putting in your weight and number of miles run. In response to the numerous emails we received, asking if this calculator could also be used for walking, so we've included some information above the calculator. If you've found this calculator useful, please let us know!

Using twenty subjects who walked and ran at various speeds, researchers found that the subjects burned the same number of calories at 5 mph. Although running calories were consistently higher than walking calories at speeds below 5 mph, walking calories increased faster with speed than running calories.

According to the NIH, to lose one U.S. pound (.454 kg) you must burn 3,500 more calories than you take in. Most individuals in the U.S. eat about 2,200 calories per day.

Activity Calories Burned per Hour*

Bicycling, 6 mph 240

Bicycling, 12 mph 410

Cross-country skiing 700

Jogging, 5½ mph 740

Jogging, 7 mph 920

Jumping rope 750

Running in place 650

Running, 10 mph 1280

Swimming, 25 yds./min. 275

Swimming, 50 yds./min. 500

Tennis, singles 400

Walking, 2 mph 240

Walking, 3 mph 320

Walking, 4½ mph 440

* These figures are for a person who weighs 150 pounds. The amount of calories you burn during an activity depends on how much you weigh. The more you weigh, the more calories you burn. For example, a person weighing 100 pounds burns only 0.67 times the calories of a person who weighs 150 pounds (100 ÷ 150 = 0.67). So, to find the number of calories a burned in an activity by a person weighing 100 pounds, multiply the number of calories in this chart by 0.67. For a person weighing 200 pounds, multiply by 1.3. To find the number of calories you burn in any activity, divide your weight by 150 and multiply the number of calories in the chart by that number.

min. = minutes
mph = miles per hour
yds. = yards

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Weight

Miles
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Calories
burned

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Chart Source: Exercise and Your Heart - A Guide to Physical Activity. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute / American Heart Association, DHHS, PHS, NIH Publication No. 93-1677.

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