Hi All,
Does anyone know how to estimate calories burned when running uphill and down hill?
I assume that there is a "correction factor" that I can apply...just can't seem to find it.
Thanks,
JG
Hi All,
Does anyone know how to estimate calories burned when running uphill and down hill?
I assume that there is a "correction factor" that I can apply...just can't seem to find it.
Thanks,
JG
Why does it matter how many calories you burned? ....eat when your hungry and make healthy choices. Don't focus on calories, they don't mean anything; all that matters is your eating the right foods and only when your hungry.
Thanks for the quick reply!
I follow a strict plant-based diet - all whole and unprocessed foods.
I'm concerned that may calorie intake is insufficient following 10-15 mile hill runs...just wanted to confirm that it is through an estimate of cal burned.
JG
+0.008% calorie difference
Equivalent to 17.3 bananas or 12.53 cloves of broccoli
Wear a heart rate monitor if you want to know a decent estimate. My Garmin takes my heart rate, sex, and weight into account and provides an estimate. It's not perfect, nothing is.
Or estimate 100 kcal per mile and forget it.
Calories do matter. Calories in > Calories out you'll gain weight (eventually). After you hit 30-35 years old, this is more dramatic. You still need to be careful and eat quality foods, not a bunch of soda and candy bars.
lmao - one of the few questions posed on this forum I'm intrigued to hear the answer to and out come the painfully unfunny trolls.
I'm not sure OP. The energy return from Achilles would go up, I imagine, but my thinking on first glance is this - it takes a certain amount of energy to carry a certain weight a certain distance (energy wastage and biomechanical differences aside). Similarly, it takes a certain amount of energy to raise a certain weight a certain height.
The force of gravity is 9.8m per second squared. Surely someone with more mathematical chops than I could turn this into a vector quantity.
Here's a page with the relevant formula for energy expenditure for the strictly vertical part of your vector OP (toward the bottom).
Go nuts.