How does your body burn 2000 calories a day without any effort, but running a mile only burns 100 calories?
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It takes 7 – 12 minutes to run a mile depending on skill, so lets say 10.
If you’re burning 2000 calories per day (varies by person / other factors) then you are burning 13.8 calories every 10 minutes.
Assuming you burn 100 calories on a mile run: (Again varies.)
That means when you go for a 10 minute run, you’re burning 113.8 calories, and only a small portion of that is your “daily caloric burn rate”.
So about 87% of the energy you spend during that mile run is exerted specifically on the run, and 13% on maintaining baseline body functions etc.
It might sound hopeless to do exercise, but you must remember how much time there is in a day, you only burn 1.38 calories per minute (at a rate of 2000/day), you can burn much more doing exercise during that same period.
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