How many calories burned riding a bicycle?

Answer 1

Depends on how hard and for how long you ride. For me, between 800-1100/hour.
Here are responses from various WikiAnswer contributors:

• Depends on a lot of things, your age, your gender, your fitness level, how hard you ride to start with. I get about 60 cals/mile, but I'm an experienced rider and I ride fairly hard. 40 cals/mile or even less is probably more normal.

• That all depends on how hard you ride and for how long you ride. I usually get somewhere between 700-900 / hour, but I push hard and am quite fit.

• 450 - 600 is probably a decent average.

• If you're not getting sweaty and winded, you're probably down to 300-something.

• Each style of biking and bike type has its own calorie requirement. A racing bike at over 20 mph can get you up to 1088 cal/hr. (That's 5 cans of coke worth). Professional hardcore racers often load up on extremely energy dense foods such as straight olive oil to fuel their performance during a race.

• The number of calories burned riding a bike walking depends on your age, your weight, your degree of fitness, your body composition, and where you are riding (flat ground or incline) as well as how far you ride and how fast you ride. For information about how to do cardio exercise correctly for fat burning, see the page link, further down this page, listed under Related Questions.

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Calorie burn doesn't care that much about what you do, but it cares a lot about how long and how hard you stay at it.

So it's basically all about effort, and time. Whatever you do that gets you equally sweaty and winded will pretty much use up the same amount of calories.

If you pootle along, doing nothing much, cycling won't use many calories. If you go flat out, cycling can use up loads of calories. Pretty much anything between 200 and 1200 per hour depending on effort.
Depends on a lot of things, how hard you go at it, how long you keep at it, your age, gender and fitness level.

A fit and experienced rider can blow through 1200 calories/hour, while someone just starting may struggle to reach 600 cals/hour.
Depends on how hard and how long you're riding, can be anything between 400-1100 calories/hour.
The amount of calories burned per hour depends mainly on the weight and repetition of spins. For example, a person weighing 150 pounds burns an average of 270 calories per hour on a bicycle.

Answer 2

Depends on plenty of things:

- age

- gender

- weight

- fitness level

- how hard you're pushing

- what the ride is like

Me, I'd burn something like 700-800 cals in 13 miles, assuming decent road conditions. Someone riding more casually might do about half. A professional athlete might a bit more.

Answer 3

Depends on a lot of things, your age, your gender, your fitness level, how hard you ride to start with.

I get about 900 cals/15 miles, but I'm an experienced rider and I ride fairly hard. 600 cals/15 miles or even less is probably more normal.

Answer 4

Depends on a lot of things, your age, your gender, your fitness level, how hard you ride to start with.

I'd get about 180cals for 3 miles, but I'm an experienced rider and I ride fairly hard. 120 cals for 3 mile or even less is probably more normal.

Answer 5

Depends on how hard, and for how long you ride. Can be anything between 300 cals/hour to 1100 cals/hour.

Answer 6

Depends on how hard you ride. If you're sweaty and winded all the time, probably around 800-1200.