Although you can drastically increase your treadmill's incline to boost the challenge of your workout, nike running trainers always set the incline to 1 percent before starting to exercise. A 1 percent incline simulates the wind resistance you'd face during an outdoor run but miss on a treadmill set to no incline. The U.S. National Library of Medicine notes the 1 percent increase compensates for energy expenditure lost running indoors versus outdoors. Increasing the incline is important to helping you accurately estimate the calories you'll burn.
Walking Calories Burned
Neither Harvard Medical School nor HealthStatus differentiates between the calories you'll burn outdoors versus on a treadmill, but provided you increase the incline to 1 percent, your energy expenditure on a treadmill will equal that which you experience outdoors. If you prefer to walk on the treadmill for a low-impact, moderate workout, you'll burn more calories if you're heavier. According to Harvard Medical School, cheap nike roshe run a 185-pound person will burn 200 calories during a 30-minute walk at a pace of 4 mph. As such, this person would need to walk for 75 minutes to burn 500 calories. If you weigh 155 pounds, you'll burn 167 calories in 30 minutes of walking at 5 mph and it would take you about 90 minutes to burn 500 calories.
Running Calories Burned
Regardless of your weight, it won't take you nearly as long to burn 500 calories on the treadmill during a run. A 185-pound person will burn 444 calories in 30 minutes of running at 6 mph, while a 155-pound person will burn 372 calories during a run of the same length and speed. It will take the 185-pound person about 34 minutes to burn 500 calories, while the 155-pound person will need to run for nearly 41 minutes to reach the 500-calorie goal.
Tracking Calories
Walking or running on a treadmill is ideal because the machine tracks such data as your speed and the length of your workout. nike cortez uk Treadmills also track the calories you burn, but be wary of fully trusting this information. If your treadmill doesn't require you to input your weight, its calorie data won't be as accurate as a machine that requires your weight. Additionally, you'll burn more calories if you avoid leaning on the handrails for support. In an article in "Shape" magazine, Auburn University professor Michele Olson warns you can unknowingly reduce your calorie burn by up to 40 percent by leaning on the handrails.
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