How come your body burns 2000 calories a day by existing, but running a mile only burns 100 calories?

Question

How come your body burns 2000 calories a day by existing, but running a mile only burns 100 calories?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Assuming you jog at an average pace of 10min/mile you burn 10calories per minute.

Just by existing you burn 2000/24/60 = 1.5 calories per minute.

So when jogging you burn 6-7 times more calories than when you’re sitting in the couch.

If you could jog for an entire day you’d burn 15k calories.

That’s hardly “only”.