Pick an activity, enter your weight and how long you exercised, and get an estimate of the calories you burned — using each activity's MET value.
Informational only — not medical advice. Consult a professional.
What is a calories burned calculator? A calories burned calculator estimates how many calories an activity uses, based on its MET value, your body weight, and how long you did it.
Calories burned equals MET times your weight in kilograms times the duration in hours. For example, running at a MET of 9.8 for a 70 kilogram person for half an hour is 9.8 times 70 times 0.5, which is about 343 calories.
A MET, or metabolic equivalent of task, measures how much energy an activity uses compared with sitting still. One MET is your resting rate, so an activity at 8 METs burns about eight times the energy of resting for the same time.
Approximate METs are walking 3.5, yoga 2.5, weightlifting 5.0, dancing 5.0, hiking 6.0, cycling 7.5, swimming 8.0, basketball 8.0, running 9.8, and jumping rope 12.0. Higher MET activities burn more calories per minute.
Yes. Because calories burned scale with weight in the MET formula, a heavier person burns more calories doing the same activity for the same time than a lighter person. This is an estimate only, not medical advice.