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How Much Are You Burning?

25 June 2012

Although 260 kilojoules per kilometre is an estimate of how much you burn, speed and weight factor in, people overestimate how much exercise they’re doing and how hard they’re doing it.

Here’s how to gauge how much you’re burning, according to your weight and speed.

7:30/km for 60 minutes(8km)  5:30/km for 60 minutes(11km)
60 kg 1 980 kilojoules 2 850 kilojoules
72 kg 2 440 kilojoules 3 500 kilojoules
86 kg 2 890 kilojoules 4 160 kilojoules

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4 Responses to How Much Are You Burning?

  1. Linelle 25 June 2012 at 1:28 pm #

    Why is it then on my Polar watch is states that I only burn between 1200 – 1300? is it possible that my speed is too slow? I run on an incline of 3 and a speed of 10 on a tread mill. On the road it is the same.

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    • Mandla Mhlutwa 26 June 2012 at 10:04 am #

      Linelle, Elnie is right, Polar watches reflect on kCal, I have one too.

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  2. Elnie Laker 25 June 2012 at 3:16 pm #

    Linelle, maybe your watch reflects it in CAL. You have to multiply Cal by 4 to get approx KJ’s. Elnie

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  3. Lee-Anne 17 September 2012 at 12:40 pm #

    hi. What if you weigh 50 kgs?

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