Calories Burned By Walking

You can indeed burn a few calories each day by just walking through your daily chores instead of taking the car out. Just imagine how many calories you could burn if you just walked to the grocery store and for other daily errands! Add to that, you'll be saving some fuel as well.

Walking it all Off

People walk so much without realizing that they have burned calories. The walking exercise is one of those activities that burns the highest number of calories per day, because people walk so much. The calories you consume through food are said to be burned when there is some activity being performed by the body. The body needs energy to do the various activities, and while doing any activity, the food you consume is said to be 'burned'. Hence, as walking is an activity, the body needs calories to fuel this activity, which in turn leads to calories being burned.

Most people make the common mistake thinking that the time for which a person walks matters a great deal for burning calories. But this is not the case. The number of calories burned depends on the distance you cover. So within a particular time frame-say 60 minutes-if a person covers 6 km, he will have burnt a lot more calories than a person who covered 4 km. Hence, speed or time doesn't matter so much in burning calories. What matters at the end of a walking exercise is the distance you have covered.

Another thing which contributes to the amount of calories burned is the body weight of the person who is doing the walking workout. It is a simple enough analogy. A heavier person will need a lot more effort to lift his body and walk than a person who is lighter. Hence, other things remaining equal, if a 180 lb man and a 120 lb man walk at the same speed, for the same time, and cover the same distance, the larger man will have burnt more calories at the end of this fat burning exercise.

So based on the information given above about the calorie count, here are the calories burned with walking by people with different weights and amount of distance covered.

Distance Walked	Weight of the Walker	Calories Burned
1 mile (30 minutes @ 2mph)	130 lb	84
2 miles (60 minutes @ 2 mph)	130 lb	168
3 miles (60 minutes @ 3 mph)	130 lb	270
4 miles (60 minutes @ 4 mph)	130 lb	312
2 miles (60 minutes @ 2mph)	150 lb	186
3 miles (60 minutes @ 3 mph)	150 lb	300
4 miles (60 minutes @ 4 mph)	150 lb	348
2 miles (60 minutes @ 2mph)	180 lb	204
3 miles (60 minutes @ 3 mph)	180 lb	348
4 miles (60 minutes @ 4 mph)	180 lb	384

Walking is a great exercise and a great and simple way of fat burning! So good luck with it!