Calories burned calculator
Estimate the calories you burn by activity, weight and duration. Based on MET values — as an honest range, because real expenditure varies.
Based on MET values (metabolic equivalents) from the Compendium of Physical Activities.
Average estimate: real expenditure depends on your intensity, fitness and metabolism. Useful as a marker, not an exact measurement.
Calories burned: an estimate
The energy cost of an activity is estimated from its MET value (metabolic equivalent) times your weight and the duration. A good marker, but reality varies — here's why.
MET is an average. At equal weight and effort, two people don't burn the same (fitness, technique, efficiency). Hence a range rather than a single number.
Intensity changes everything. Running at 8 or 12 km/h are very different costs. Pick the activity closest to your real effort for a useful estimate.
Exercise isn't everything. Calories burned are often overestimated, then compensated by eating more. On the energy balance, your plate weighs more — that's where Volumeal helps, as an honest range.
MET values: Compendium of Physical Activities (Ainsworth et al.).