You can consume as many calories as you like, depending upon the amount of time that you spend doing this exercise. But it may not be the best form of exercise for you, since there is a chance of falling and injuring yourself. Running on level ground is safer than running up and down stairs. Swimming is lots of fun and terrific exercise. There are lots of ways to exercise.
When you walk, even when going downhill or down the stairs, you are burning calories. Any calories you burn come from the glycogen stored in your body in the form of adipose (fat) tissue. So, even if you are not losing weight, you are doing what you can not to gain more. Walking up the stairs burns more calories than walking down, so avoid the elevator.
you would lose 300 calories in a 100 metre sprint
Not really. You might lose one pund by running the stairs every day for a week though.
Yes, walking can help you lose weight but how far and how often, that is the real question. If you are a walker, you'll lose weight even more. If you often have an opportunity to walk down the store or the park, that would be great. It would be even better if you use stairs instead of the elevator. Try to use the stairs as much as you can.
You would need to lose 3500 Calories to lose 1poundDecrease your daily calories by 30%.
Not very many...Think about it, it is not very hard work, you lose 60 calories an hour just breathing, and that's a fact!
You can't "lose" calories (well, I suppose you could misplace a pie, in which case you would have lost the calories represented by that pie).
Look at it this way... To lose one pound of weight, you must have a total NEGATIVE intake of 3600 calories. Stair-climbing does burn more calories than walking on a flat surface, but while burning calories doing this you are building muscles (heart, in your legs & buttocks, etc), which is good. Also, the exercise should be over at least a 20 minute period, several days a week primarily for your cardiac workout... But you've got to burn that 3600 calories in order to lose the weight, and do it so that you lose about 1/2 pound a week (women) or 1 pound a week for men. If the total intake of calories is greater than you expend, then your weight will go up correspondingly.
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Yes, but it would take you a long time to lose a few pounds.
* yes about 5 pounds This is wrong. There are 3500 calories in a pound. You must "lose" 3500 calories through diet or exercise to lose 1 pound. It would take a reduction of 17,500 calories to lose 5 pounds.
To lose a pound you have to burn 3500 so times five would be 17500 calories and you would lose five pounds, good luck!