Healthy Lifestyle Tip ~ Here’s How to Calculate Your Calories will Walking or Running

Calculating Your Calorie Burn While Walking or Running

The American College of Sports Medicine journal “Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise” reports how to calculate an equivalent calorie burn between walking and running. If you walk 3 to 5 mph, your calorie burn is equal to your body weight multiplied by .30 for each mile. When you run, your calorie burn is equal to your body weight multiplied by .63 for each mile. A 150-lb. person burns 45 calories walking a mile and 94.5 calories running a mile. By this standard, at all body weights, you have to walk 2.1 times the distance to burn the same amount of calories as running.

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