- According to the calculator at the Calorie Lab Web site, a person who weighs 150 lbs. can expect to burn about 68 calories per hour walking at a pace of less than 2 miles an hour on level ground. This is the speed of walking you might expect to do when shopping at the mall.
- As you increase your speed, you increase your calorie burn. A 150-lb. person walking 3.5 miles an hour on level ground can expect to burn 190 calories per hour. If you get up to 5 miles per hour, you can expect to burn 476 calories per hour.
- Your speed matters more than whether you are walking or running. According to Calorie Lab, a person walking a brisk 5 miles an hour would burn the same amount of calories as a person running 5 miles an hour. If you run a faster, 7 miles an hour, though, you will burn 714 calories per hour.
- The surface on which you walk or run will affect how many calories you burn. A 150-pound person who walks 3.5 miles an hour on a level surface will burn about 190 calories an hour. However, someone who walks uphill at that same speed would burn 340 calories per hour.
- The more you weigh, the more calories your body has to burn to move from point to point. According to NutriStrategy.com, a 130-lb. runner can expect to burn 472 calories an hour, while a 190-lb. runner would burn 690 calories per hour. Similarly, a 130-lb. person would burn about 207 calories during an hour of walking, while a 190-lb. person would burn 302 calories an hour doing the same activity.
