Calories Burned Running Stairs
Just taking the stairs instead of the elevator can slash calories throughout your day, without your even realizing it. Running stairs has even greater health benefits as it requires more energy to go up the stairs quickly than to climb slowly. The calories consumed depends on how long you climb, how fast you climb, your weight and even whether you are going up or down. No matter how many calories you burn, you also need to know how to put that number in perspective.
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Basics
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If you weigh 160 pounds and use a stair treadmill for an hour, you should expect to burn around 650 calories, according to the Mayo Clinic. If you weigh more, you'll burn more. A 200-pound person will burn another 200 calories, and a 240-pound person burns close to 1,000 calories from this exercise.
Variations
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If you weigh 150 pounds, just taking the stairs, regardless of how fast you go, will result in at least 300 calories being burned, according to FatFreeKitchen.com. If you go down the stairs, you will burn less but should still expect to shed about 200 calories.
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Other Activities
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The Carter Center of Emory University reports that running up stairs compares favorably to other activities. To put the amount of calories burned through this activity in perspective, a 140-pound woman can burn 856 calories if she runs for one hour at a pace of eight miles an hour. If she runs 10 mph, she'll burn another 200 calories. She can burn 70 calories just sitting at a desk and writing for an hour. An hour's worth of sex results in another 260 calories being burned.
Tailoring
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The amount of calories you burn by running up or down stairs probably varies from the amount of calories burned by your father or your spouse or your child. You can get an accurate read of the calories you'll burn in various activities by going to online calorie calculators. The Carter Center's calculator determines the number of calories burned in these activities by considering factors like your current weight and gender.
Food Content
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To further put the calories burned in perspective, it's important to know how many calories you need to consume during the day and how many calories are in the foods you eat. Nutrition Data, a site powered by Conde Nast, provides caloric and other nutritional information for various popular foods. For example, a McDonald's quarter pounder without cheese contains 420 calories. Just sipping an iced mocha from Starbucks throughout the day adds another 200 calories. You can see how many calories you need, based on your height, weight, activity level and gender, by visiting online sites like My Calorie Counter that calculate your daily needs.
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