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Calculate the Calories Burned While Running with the Calorie Calculator

This calories burned calculator calculates the calories burned during a run, based on your weight and the distance you ran.

When it comes to burning calories you could not have picked a better exercise than running.

Opposed to popular belief the speed you run has little effect to calories burned during your run.

It's almost all about distance.

So, running one mile fast vs running one mile slow does not make much of a difference in calorie usage. Of course, when you go fast, it will take you less time to cover the distance.

But, go slow, and you might be able to go further than just one mile. As a result, you'd burn more calories!

I can also highly advise you to read my running for fitness page. It covers the differrences between fast and slow running in a bit more depth.

Back to the calorie calculator. The formula used in this calculation is:

Kilograms * Kilometres * 1.036

Don't worry if you don't know your weight in kg or how much you ran in km, this running calculator does the conversion for you.

Check out this calorie burned calculator and see if your run is far enough to burn off a Big Mac or slice of pizza!

Have you run far enough to burn
off that pizza slice?

Now, this is one of the more popular running calculators on this website. And I know, many of us are battling their weight. So, it's an important one.

The good news is, when you want to lose weight, running is one of the best exercises you can choose.

But, exercise is not the only element to weight loss though, your diet is important too. It's no good knowing the calories burned while running, when you eat too much.

The most important equation for weight loss is the following:

Calories Consumed - Calories Burned

calories burned calculator

Consume less calories than you burn, then, and only then, will you lose weight.

So, how many calories is 1 pound of fat?

Want to lose 1 pound of fat?

Then you need to burn roughly 3,500 calories more than you take in.

So, losing one pound per week is the equivalent of 3,500 cal / 7 days = 500 / day.

That's doable, as long as you eat well, don't overeat and exercise consistently.

So, how many calories should you consume? It depends on age and your activity levels. A useful tool is available on MyFitnessPal.com which allows you to set goals and track your calorie-intake.

For a healthy men, 35 years of age, the advised calorie-intake is about 2,500 calories. On average. When you want to lose weight you'll have to make sure you'll consume less than 2,500 calories per day. It may be less or more for you, depending on what type of work you do, your body, etc.

For a healthy woman, 35 years of age, the advised calorie-intake is much less, about 1,700 calories per day. Again, this is an average. So, as a woman, if you'd like to lose weight, you should eat less than 1,700 calories per day.

You'd have to reduce your calorie-intake to 1,700 - 550 = 1,150 calories per day in order to lose 1 kg per week. Now, I can tell you, 1,150 is not high. In fact, generally they recommend that you consume at least 1,200 calories per day to keep your metabolism going at a healthy rate.

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So, what does that mean? Keep in mind, you can lose weight in different ways:

1) Eat less than the recommended calorie-intake per day.

2) Eat the recommended calorie-intake, but burn off some extra calories by doing exercise.

3) Eat more than the recommended calorie-intake, but do a lot of exercise to burn it of.

Some discipline regarding what and
how much you eat can go a long way!

The first option, no exercise, is the hardest. Calorie restriction is tough. Long-term it is not a viable strategy. Especially as your metabolism will adjust to the reduced food-intake and will "condition" itself to make do with the reduced calories.

That's why regular exercise is such a good thing.

You can still eat well, keep your metabolism working as it should, but your exercise makes sure you burn off the calories.

For more advice on what type of running to do, how to start running and what to eat check out the following pages: