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"You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is."

- Ellen Degeneres

Calories Burned Calculator - Bookmark This Site

Ever wonder how many calories you burn each day or during a certain activity? The calculator below allows you to enter in your weight, the exercise and the time spent doing that exercise and then determines the calories that you burned performing that activity.

Weight:	pounds
Time:	minutes
Exercise:	Biking Biking Hard (> 14 MPH) Boxing Cleaning The House Cooking Eating Jogging Jogging Fast (> 8 MPH) Mowing Lawn Painting Playing Basketball Playing Football Playing Golf Playing Hockey Playing Racquetball Playing Soccer Playing Tennis Playing Volleyball Playing With Kids Reading Rowing Shoveling Skiing Sleeping Swimming Walking Watching TV Weight Lifting

How is this determined? The most comprehensive technique is known as the University of South Carolina's Compendium of Physical Activities. Research has been done to find this method the most accurate, as it used the metabolic equivalents (MET) to assign intensity units to each activity. Based on the MET value of the activity and the time spent performing it, the # of calories burned is calculated.



The Compendium of Physical Activities Formula
Calories burned by exercise = ((METs * 3.5 * weight in kg) / 200) * # of minutes.

What's the best way to start exercising? Click for a few tips on getting started