Calories Burned Per Hour on Your Treadmill
Calories Burned Per Hour on Your Treadmill
Treadmills are a simply great way to exercise. If you have your very own treadmill desk well good on you, you’re well on your way to a fitter, healthier lifestyle, but you don’t have to work while you’re on your treadmill you know, you can take a walk or a run while watching TV, listening to music or reading your favorite magazine. You can exercise at any time of the day or night, it doesn’t matter what the weather is doing outside, there are no excuses! The number of calories burned on your treadmill, however, is dependent on a few different factors.
Time Spent on Your Treadmill
Of course, the first thing which differs is the amount of time you actually spend on the treadmill. There is a rule of thumb that (especially for newbies) you are better off increasing the amount of time spent on the treadmill, rather than trying to go too quickly too soon. A person of around 160 pounds will burn off 277 calories per hour, when walking at 3.5 mph. That’s a pretty normal speed and length of time to start with.
Speed Traveled on Your Treadmill
Of course, the faster you go the more calories you can burn off in the same amount of time. It can be pretty hard on your joints though so do build up your speeds gradually. If this 160 pound person ups the speed to a jog of around 5 mph, 584 calories will be burned per hour, and if the speed is increased to 8 mph (now you’re really motoring) then increase the calories burned to 986 calories per hour.
Weight is a factor to be taken into consideration (that’s why we keep saying “160 pounds”). The heavier you are, the more weight you lose doing the same amount of exercise as a lighter person, so you should become lighter sooner, which means that you have to work harder to lose the same amount of calories – that doesn’t sound fair does it?
Inclines are another way to increase the amount of calories burned on your treadmill. It’s not available on all treadmills, but some of them do have the capacity to incline up to around 12% or even 15%, it’s effectively walking or running up a hill, which is obviously harder work and therefore burns up more calories.