How come your body burns 2000 calories a day by existing, but running a mile only burns 100 calories?
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The 100 calories is for an average 150 lb person, and this is above your normal energy consumption.
If your assumption of 2000 calories a day (BMR) is correct, that’s what you burn just sitting around. So your normal sitting around self burns 83 calories an hour or 13.8 calories in ten minutes.
If you run (jog) a ten minute mile you’ve burned 100 calories above the normal 13.8 calories you would have burned on the couch….so that’s quite a bit more energy burned….a factor of 8.25 times more.
So it’s not really “only” 100 calories….it’s 8.25 your normal energy expenditure.
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