There are 3,500 calories in a pound. A 170 pound guy uses 111 calories per mile run.
You would have to run 32 miles to lose a pound!
There are 3,500 calories in a pound. A 170 pound guy uses 111 calories per mile run.
You would have to run 32 miles to lose a pound!
You are making an assumption that all 170 pound individuals have exactly the same biomechanics.
At the same time you do bring up a valid point that most people simply fail to understand. It takes far more exercise to make a significant difference in weight than people expect.
Not sure on the exact number but that sounds about right.
ASsuming current weight is stable and in balance.
This would mean that going from nothing to runing 32 miles ina week, means you lose a pound a week.
If you were losing a lot more per mile then distance runners would have to either eat a lot more or run a lot less.
Remember...32 miles isn't that far if broken up over several days, in one run it's massive but over the course of a week it's hardly anything.
Plus iamgine you would actually lose a lot more over the course of a marathon but a lot of the loss would be water? one for the physiologists!
You continue burning calories at a rate higher than normal for a few hours after exercise stops
you have to remember that doesn't count water weight lost...so a pound of fat is quiet a bit i would think for just 32 miles, consistantly log 9 and you are going to be thin and trim in no time.
pound guy wrote:
There are 3,500 calories in a pound. A 170 pound guy uses 111 calories per mile run.
You would have to run 32 miles to lose a pound!
It is more like 130 cal./mi for 170lb person, so he will need to run about 27 miles, but consider the calories burned after run / recovery, it will take about 20% less, which comes to 21.5 miles.
At the same time, when you lose fat, you lose water as well, so the overall weight lost will be more than 1lb (more like 1.5 lb). So, you will need to run about 14-15 miles to lose 1 lb of weight if your diet did not change. And again, after you lose a few pounds, the calories burned per mile will be reduced, thus you need to run more to lose each pound.
well i recently ran 14 miles and lost 5 pounds immediatelly after, given about 4 hours i was about a pound under my normal weight of 140
After I get done with a run I usually pump up on the eating and drinking to get back up.
If you are only burning 111 calories a mile, you are probly running at 5 to 6 miles per hour....Now if you were going 7 to 8 miles per hour, you would be burning some fat.
fast enough wrote:
If you are only burning 111 calories a mile, you are probly running at 5 to 6 miles per hour....Now if you were going 7 to 8 miles per hour, you would be burning some fat.
calories burned is simply mass x distance. you burn the same number of calories regardless of speed (biomechanic efficiency aside)
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