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When it comes to burning calories, your heart rate is much more important than what it is that you are doing. If you can reach and sustain the same heart rate for the same amount of time you will burn pretty much the same amount of calories regardless of activity.
Most people would reach a higher heart rate when walking stairs, so they'd burn more cals/minute that way. Whether they'd burn more cals in total that way depends on how long they're able to keep it up.
Let's say stair walking boost their heart rate from 80 to 150, and that they're able to keep it up for 10 minutes. That's 70x10 = 700 extra beats, and extra calorie usage.
Let's say brisk walking boost their heart rate from 80 to 130, and that they're able to keep it up for 30 minutes. That's 50x30=1500 extra beats, and extra calorie usage.
In this case brisk walking would burn the most calories.
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∙ 12y agoStair climbing. More muscles are utilized and the extra effort needed to move body weight causes an increase in heart rate, which positively correlates with an increase in calorie burning.
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What burns more calories a ramp or stairs?
Stairs.
Why does walking down the stairs require more energy than walking along a flat surface?
Burns more calories, and takes more of the energ..... Uses a lot of leg musles
Which one burns more calories walking riding or skipping?
Skipping burns more calories than walking or riding. This burns more calories because it is more of a full body exercise.
Do you lose weight from walking from the third floor to the first floor at school between classes?
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.
How many calories are burned walking with crutches?
a 150 pound person burns 352 calories per hour walking on crutches, a 180 pound person burns 409. http://www.livestrong.com/article/320780-calories-burned-on-crutches/
What burns calories faster walking than eating or eating than walking?
Walking then eating if you eat first then you feel worse than when you walk first burning more calories.
Do stretches burn calories?
Yes doing any physical activity burns calories! But stretching does not burn as many calories as jogging or even walking.
Do slow exercises burn off more fat than intense ones?
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How many calories can you burn in 3 hours of shopping?
well it depends, if you shop for 1 or 2 hours you can burn about 6 calories b'c walkin burns about 3 calories, and taking a bunch of clothes off hooks burns about or 2 calories, and and trying on stuff burns about 1 calorie! so there you have it......shopping does burn calories
How much swimming is the same as walking 2 miles?
The average person burns about 200 calories walking 2 miles. To burn 200 calories swimming, you would need to swim about 15 to 20 minutes depending how you are swimming.
How many calories are burned walking a flight of stairs?
You burn about 100 calories when you run a mile. So, you're not burning much going up a flight of stairs.Cardio exercise such as brisk walking, running, and jogging, etc., when done correctly, is far more effective for fat burning than walking up a flight of stairs. For information about how to do cardio correctly, see the relevant page, further down this page, listed underRelated Questions.The above answer is true for "a" flight of stairs but if you're using that as a measurement point don't be discouraged; climbing stairs is in fact a great workout. According to one website, a 70-kg person (about 154 lbs) burns 10 calories per minute when ascending, and 7 calories per minute when descending, a flight of stairs. Therefore, if you climb up 10 sets of stairs (which will take an average of 5 minutes), you will burn 50 calories. That's more or less the equivalent of one slice of bread for a 5-minute workout. Pretty impressive.Well, I am not sure if I agree. According to physics Potential energy mass * gravity * height ascended. In this knowledge if a person is 75kg, one flight of stairs is 2m and gravity is 10 m/(s^2) then the energy you use up in climbing one flight of stairs is:75 * 10 * 2 1500 j = 636 calories. [ls this logic flawed..? Is there something this logic is missing?]The "flaw" in the above logic is simply that the "calories" that we talk about for nutritional purposes is actually a kilocalorie (kcal). So, your math on one flight of stairs is about .636 "calories" (nutritional). This is a pretty good approximation and consistent with your other numbers.In addition, when using physics to answer these questions, we treat the person as if he were just a particle (which is not the case), and in fact, you burn many more calories in the real world (the traditional introduction to this concept is how much one would have to climb to burn off 2500 kcal, which approximates to the height of Mt. Everest, although in the real world, we know you would burn many more kilocalories than that).
How many calories are burned during running and walking per mile?
A 150-pound man burns 100 calories per mile; a 200-pund man burns 133 calories per mile; and a 250-pound man burns 166 calories per mile. You burn virtually the same number of calories whether you run or walk a mile; you just get there faster if you run.
