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Calories Burned Running

Energy burned running at 6 mph, from the 9.8 MET value for that pace, your weight and your time.

With weight 75 kg, duration 45 minutes, calories burned comes to 579 kcal — calories burned. It is reached in 3 steps, the last of which is per_minute * minutes, and each one is printed on the page with its numbers filled in. The formula is the one published by Compendium of Physical Activities, not an approximation fitted to it.

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Calories burned
579 kcal
Calories per minute
met * 3.5 * weight / 20012.863 kcal/min
Calories burned
per_minute * minutes578.813 kcal
Net of what you would have burned at rest
calories - (1 * 3.5 * weight / 200) * minutes519.75 kcal

Population-level estimate. Individual energy cost varies substantially.

The formula

  1. Calories per minutemet * 3.5 * weight / 200
  2. Calories burnedper_minute * minutes
  3. Net of what you would have burned at restcalories - (1 * 3.5 * weight / 200) * minutes

Formula from Compendium of Physical Activities — MET reference values, CDC — physical activity for adults.

The same calculator, other cases

  • Calories Burned WalkingEnergy burned walking at 3.5 mph, computed from the 4.3 MET value for that pace against your weight and the time you spent.
  • Calories Burned SwimmingEnergy burned swimming moderate laps, from the 5.8 MET value — noticeably lower than most people expect, and the arithmetic is shown.
  • Calories Burned CyclingEnergy burned cycling at 12 to 14 mph, from the 8.0 MET value for that speed against your weight and duration.

Undecided? The Calories Burned Calculator carries every case behind one control.

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