How do you begin to calculate the calories burned riding a 30-lbs bike on a smooth, flat surface for 1 mile versus walking this distance with a 30-lb backpack?
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I mean really it’s incredibly hard to directly calculate how many calories a single individual burns doing anything. Because it can be variable depending on who you are and your fitness level and how much you weigh and what not.
But in general, there are two rough estimates that I personally use that google/health apps with back up and I was told by an athletic trainer years ago. On average a person will burn about 100 calories walking or running a mile. Slightly more for running, but when you think about it you’re moving your body the same distance, so it takes roughly the same energy.
Biking is much much more efficient, so on average you burn a bit less than half the amount of calories per mile as walking/running. So between 40-50 calories a mile.
But again, I don’t think there is a really a precise way to figure out exactly how many calories you’re burning doing something, to do that I believe requires getting hooked up to all the sensors and breathing in a mask that measures how much CO2 you’re breathing out and other fancy analysis stuff
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