{"id":5878,"date":"2008-03-11T08:42:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T13:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.healthstatus.com\/health_blog\/2008\/03\/11\/calories-burned-how-many-a-day\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T16:09:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T21:09:58","slug":"calories-burned-how-many-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthstatus.com\/health_blog\/body-fat-calculator\/calories-burned-how-many-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Calories Burned, How many a day?"},"content":{"rendered":"

As of this writing, if you go to Google.com and type in “calories burned”, the HealthStatus.com calories burned<\/a> calculator will appear as the number one, non-paid listing. \u00a0 While we have a great list of over 120 different activities, it is not telling you \u00a0the whole story. \u00a0 What I want to do today is walk you through the process of finding out how many calories you burn in a day.<\/p>\n

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Step 1, we are not even going to start at the calories burned calculator, let’s start at the Daily Energy Expenditure calculator<\/a> (this will popup in a new window so you can follow along with the instructions, we will refer to this as the popup window). \u00a0 This calculator will tell you how many calories each day are burned by your body just to keep your respiration, blood flow and the most basic body systems running. \u00a0 Many health websites refer to this as a Basal Metabolic Rate calculator<\/a> or BMR calculator<\/a>, and uses a standard formula. \u00a0 Health Trivia: \u00a0This calculator was originally developed so doctors would know how many a calories a day should be given to coma patients. \u00a0 Write the result from your calculation down on a piece of paper.<\/p>\n

Step 2, OK, now in the popup window, click the calculators button \u00a0under the main menu on the left side, then click Calories Burned link in the middle of the page. \u00a0 Enter your weight in the box at the top of the activity list. \u00a0 A lot of people want to know why we ask this question when a lot of the other websites don’t ask it. \u00a0 The answer is simple, they use an average weight usually 150 pounds to compute the calories you burn. \u00a0 That is great if you weigh 150 pounds, if you don’t you should use our calculator, because it is a lot more accurate. \u00a0 Go down the list and enter the number of minutes each day you spend doing each activity, but as you do consider a few things; \u00a0 I play basketball a couple of times a week, one night with a bunch of high-school age guys, another night where the average age is about 40, even though I am on the court the same amount of time both nights, I can tell you I burn a lot more calories with the high-school kids than I do with the older guys. \u00a0 The high-schoolers play with more intensity, they run more, they are quicker, and so on. \u00a0 You need to consider this intensity level when you are putting in your minutes. \u00a0 In the three hours that we have the court, I am actually playing only about two hours, so even though I am at the gym, in my basketball gear, I am only playing two hours and the other hour is broken out amongst \u00a0either walking, standing or sitting. \u00a0 For my high-school ball night, I count 120 minutes of full-court basketball, and 45 minutes of sitting and 15 minutes of walking. \u00a0 For my older guy night of ball, I count 100 minutes of full-court basketball, 45 minutes of sitting (my sitting intensity remains constant), 20 minutes of jogging (to offset the less intense basketball action) and 15 minutes of walking. \u00a0 I am adjusting my minutes down if I didn’t do \u00a0the activity with full intensity. \u00a0 \u00a0 Almost everything you do you can tell whether you are really being intense about it, just going through the motions or somewhere in between. \u00a0 Don’t give yourself credit for a full calorie burn when you are just putting out a partial effort. \u00a0 When you go dancing for a couple of hours, and are only on the dance floor for twenty minutes, don’t put 120 in the calculator on the dancing line. \u00a0 Got it? \u00a0 OK, enter your minutes for one day (not an average day, just what you do in one day), try to account for a full 24 hours (1440 minutes) \u00a0and click total, now put that number down on your piece of paper and add the two numbers together. \u00a0 This is the number of calories you burned.<\/p>\n

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