If you run to enhance your fitness, the number of calories that you burn in that activity depends mainly on how fast you run, how long you run and how much you weigh.
Calorie Calculator
You can estimate the number of calories burned running using online calculators, such as the one at DietandFitnessToday.com. Type in your weight, the speed you are running and how long you run, and the calculator estimates the number of calories you burn.
Examples
If you weigh 150 pounds and run at 6 mph for 30 minutes you will burn 340 calories. You will burn proportionally more calories if you weigh more. If you weigh 33 percent more, or 200 pounds, and run the same amount of time, you will burn about 33 percent more calories, or about 454 calories.
Further Factors
How many calories you actually burn also depends on various other factors, including your muscle mass, age, gender, metabolism, style of running, wind, weather conditions, grade of surface and additional weight you carry in the form of clothing and ankle or hand weights.
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