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Walking Distance vs Calories Burned?
I tried google for this but kept confusing myself! I'm ~168lb and have been walking 4 miles per day in approximately 70 minutes. I walk 1.7 miles in 30 minutes, take approximately 5-10 minutes to walk 1/2 mile (with a friend) and then walk the other 1.7 miles in 30 minutes. About how many calories would I be burning in a day or week if I walked 4 miles a day at my averaged 3.5mph walk? Thank you.
I live in FL so it's mostly flat like 99.5% is flat. That's about what I figured in terms of calories vs pounds.
2 Answers
- ClickMasterLv 71 decade agoFavourite answer
Speed has nothing to do with energy. Power is energy over (divided by) time so speed only affects power. If you burn a 1000 calories, it matter not how fast you burn it. You've still burned 1000 calories.
Also, there's no way for us to know how many calories YOU are burning because we don't know if it's all up hill or all downhill or all on the level. There are other factors you neglected to mention too. However, a good number to go with is 3500 calories per pound of fat. That's five miles per day all week to burn one pound. And that would be over level ground and it doesn't matter if you walk it, run it, or crawl it.
