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loki
23-06-2008, 11:25
Quick question re calories and that kind of shnizzle. I am doing a charridy walk for Children in Need in November so am starting to get stuff planned for it now. How many calories would I expect to burn in around 10 hours. The route is around 37 miles in an urban environment

Cheers
Matblack
23-06-2008, 11:30
Not many :(

The body is surprisingly feul efficient at walking speed, somewhere between 75 and 150 depending on your body weight is a reasonable guess. If we say 100 for arguments sake you will burn approx 3500 calories which is equal to the energy stored in one lb of body weight!

MB
Chuckles
23-06-2008, 12:13
I was in Munich and did a 12 mile walk one day. You can get a pedometer that sits in your pocket and tells you how many steps you've done and how many calories you've burned. I think it was about 400 for 12 miles.
Gnat
23-06-2008, 12:29
Not many :(

The body is surprisingly feul efficient at walking speed, somewhere between 75 and 150 depending on your body weight is a reasonable guess. If we say 100 for arguments sake you will burn approx 3500 calories which is equal to the energy stored in one lb of body weight!

MB

:( I thought walking used loads :(
Desmo
23-06-2008, 13:53
Nope, gotta work harder than that :evil:

That's not to say that walking isn't good for you, but if you want to drop some fat, you need to keep yourself working harder for a longer period :)
Belmit
23-06-2008, 13:55
From About.com:

Your weight x distance = energy used walking. Time does not matter as much as distance. If you speed up to walking a mile in 13 minutes or less, you will be burning more calories per mile. But for most beginning walkers, it is best to increase the distance before working on speed. A simple rule of thumb is 100 calories per mile for a 180 pound person.

So MB's estimation is pretty much spot on.
Matblack
23-06-2008, 14:02
Nope, gotta work harder than that :evil:

That's not to say that walking isn't good for you, but if you want to drop some fat, you need to keep yourself working harder for a longer period :)

Sort of, there are ways increase calorie usage in a shorter period of time but they do require you to work a lot harder, HIIT for example is a good way of burning cals quickly but you have to be prepared to go through a certain amount of pain to achieve it.

MB
Gnat
23-06-2008, 14:06
Well thats just rubbish :(

And there was me thinking that it doesnt matter if I eat loads of chocolate because I have walked round the shops that day :(
Matblack
23-06-2008, 14:13
Well thats just rubbish :(

And there was me thinking that it doesnt matter if I eat loads of chocolate because I have walked round the shops that day :(

10 blocks of Dairy Milk will cost you 2.5 miles walking.

MB
Gnat
23-06-2008, 14:19
10 blocks of Dairy Milk will cost you 2.5 miles walking.

MB

when you say 10 blocks... do you mean 10 bars? whole bars?
When I said "eat loads of chocolate" I didn't quite mean that much!

Or Did you mean 10 little squares? In which case 2.5 miles for 10 little squares of chocolate?!?! :'(
Belmit
23-06-2008, 14:19
I can burn the same calories in 20 minutes doing HIIT as I could running a constant rate for about 40-45. Doing those 20 minutes six times a week has caused fat to just drop off my body in the past six months or so.
Matblack
23-06-2008, 14:20
I can burn the same calories in 20 minutes doing HIIT as I could running a constant rate for about 40-45. Doing those 20 minutes six times a week has caused fat to just drop off my body in the past six months or so.

Yep its a great way to exercise although it is also quite knackering :D

MB
Matblack
23-06-2008, 14:21
when you say 10 blocks... do you mean 10 bars? whole bars?
When I said "eat loads of chocolate" I didn't quite mean that much!

Or Did you mean 10 little squares? In which case 2.5 miles for 10 little squares of chocolate?!?! :'(

Yep 10 little squares are 220 calories

MB
Gnat
23-06-2008, 14:22
Yep 10 little squares are 220 calories

MB

:'(

If only celery tasted of chocolate
Belmit
23-06-2008, 14:34
Or Did you mean 10 little squares? In which case 2.5 miles for 10 little squares of chocolate?!?! :'(

It's amazing how calories quickly add up, and how many are crammed into certain foods. I had four squares of dark chocolate the other day at 30kcal a square. There were less calories (80-90) in an entire pack of fruit salad that I brought into work the other day and struggled to finish (so much mango *drool*).

I'm frankly amazed that the maintenance levels for males and females are 2500kcal and 2000kcal a day respectively. If I ate 2500kcal in a day I'd put on weight, no doubt. I'd say 2000 was maybe even too much for me. Although I don't really count calories, I've become very much aware that the usual things I used to do (grabbing a handful of cereal out the box, or a handful of peanuts) could easily have pushed me from a daily deficit of calories to an excess, ultimately putting weight on over time.

The biggest eye-opener for me was realising that busting my ass on the treadmill for 20 minutes only burns 300kcal. If I've been snacking on apples all day then I'll have done some good, but if I've grabbed a Boost from the vending machine at work I've only cancelled out the damage I've done.