Calories Burned - Is This Possible?

paul7g

Hi,

I need to create a basic formula / caluclator that i can add to a website, that will allow women to workout a very rough figure for the calories they have burned after a run. Is it possible to do this with the following information:

Distance Ran:
Time Ran:
Gender:
Height:
Weight:

Thanks, Paul.

Oryx

Like this does?

paul7g

Thanks... kind of, but there is no formula there :-(

srsly78

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview/id/758572.html

paul7g

Thanks, however the formula as not very clear, does it make sense to you?

Stheno

paul7g wrote: »

Thanks... kind of, but there is no formula there :-(

Look closer, there is

paul7g

Not based on these attributes?

Distance Ran:
Time Ran:
Gender:
Height:
Weight:

Stheno

paul7g wrote: »

Not based on these attributes?

Distance Ran:
Time Ran:
Gender:
Height:
Weight:

Seems to here

Enter your age and gender
Enter your height and weight
Enter the number of minutes for any of the activities you do (1 or all) click the (+) to expand the categories
Click on calculate at the bottom of the form for your calorie calculator personal report

Includes all of the above using mph and time ran, it tells me that I burn 571 calories if I run for 30 minutes at ten mph

srsly78

paul7g wrote: »

Not based on these attributes?

Distance Ran:
Time Ran:
Gender:
Height:
Weight:

Did you even read it? Follow the link: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6013009.html

Stench Blossoms

Oh my god this is hurting my brain.

Stheno

Stench Blossoms wrote: »

Oh my god this is hurting my brain.

Feel for the guy, he's come up with a possible app and discovered his brainwave has been done already

paul7g

Stheno wrote: »

Seems to here

Includes all of the above using mph and time ran, it tells me that I burn 571 calories if I run for 30 minutes at ten mph

Thanks... but unfortunately we don't have the age in the user's database (coming from a source we can't manage, so unfortunately can't add age), thanks again for your help.

Stheno wrote: »

Feel for the guy, he's come up with a possible app and discovered his brainwave has been done already

Feel for you, as you clearly can't read :-)

Building a small calculator for a friend on their website / blog, not an app idea like the 100,001 calorie counting apps out there :-)

Daemonic

Oryx wrote: »

Like this does?

To take this off topic, has anyone who knows their body fat from caliper tests etc. put their numbers into the body fat calculators on that site? If so how accurate are they?
I'm finding the results I get hard to believe.

Mellor

From by own observations, roughly;
Calories = Distance (km) x weight (kg)

Most of the other variables aren't major factors. It's wont hold up for sprinting or walking. But anything in the normal range should be pretty close.

paul7g

Mellor wrote: »

From by own observations, roughly;
Calories = Distance (km) x weight (kg)

Most of the other variables aren't major factors. It's wont hold up for sprinting or walking. But anything in the normal range should be pretty close.

Thanks Mellor, so you reckon the following is right?

5km X 80kg = 400 calories

I reckon if i jogged 5km at a normal pace, i'd only burn half of that?

Mellor

paul7g wrote: »

Thanks Mellor, so you reckon the following is right?

5km X 80kg = 400 calories

I reckon if i jogged 5km at a normal pace, i'd only burn half of that?

Yeah exactly.
If you jogged it you wouldn't burn less. The pace doesn't significantly affect the calories you burn.


Here's a few online calcs, they used much more detailed equations.
http://www.bupa.com.au/health-and-wellness/tools-and-apps/tools-and-calculators/burning-calories

http://www.mydr.com.au/tools/calories-burned-calculator

http://www.runnersworld.com/tools/calories-burned-calculator

Based on 80kg, 177cm, 29 years old.

The figures are 383, 403 and 414 calories. The average is 400 exactly.
My way is a whole lot simpler.
Where I had to pick I used 12km/hr (5min/km). But the third one allows you to adjsut the total time and it didn'r affect calorie output.