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Walking calorie results for 155 lb walker at two paces — 155 lb brisk walker burns 453 kcal in 90 minutes.

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Worked example: 155 lb walker, 90 minutes at a brisk pace

A 155 lb person walking briskly (3.5 to 4 mph) for 1.5 hours enters: weight 155, time 1.5, pace brisk. The calculator first converts pounds to kilograms by dividing by 2.20462: 155 / 2.20462 = 70.31 kg. Brisk walking carries a MET value of 4.3, so the energy equation is 70.31 kg x 4.3 MET x 1.5 hr.

Step by step: 70.31 x 4.3 = 302.33, then 302.33 x 1.5 = 453.5, which the tool rounds to 453 kcal. The same walker covering just one hour at a casual 2.5 to 3 mph pace burns 70.31 x 3.5 x 1.0 = 246 kcal. Speed matters more than most walkers expect: the extra hour and a half of duration plus the faster MET nearly doubles the total, and pace is the only lever in the equation that changes MET.

One MET equals resting metabolic rate, roughly 1 kcal per kilogram per hour. A MET of 4.3 means brisk walking costs about 4.3 times what sitting still does, which is why the formula scales linearly with both body weight and duration: double either input and the calorie figure doubles exactly.

What the number leaves out

The Compendium MET values the tool uses are averages measured on level ground. A 70 kg walker at 3.5 mph on a treadmill registers about 4.3 MET, but the same pace up a 5 percent grade rises to roughly 5.3 MET, adding about 105 kcal to that 453 kcal session. Carrying a 20 lb backpack adds a few percent more.

Calorie counters on treadmills and watches often disagree with the tool by 10 to 20 percent because they include resting burn or estimate from heart rate. This calculator reports only the walking cost above rest, so treat it as the incremental number, not a watch-style total. Fitness trackers that use heart rate typically overestimate steady-state walking calories by 15 to 25 percent in validation studies against calorimetry.

Two edge cases to know: inputs below 0.1 hours are rejected, so a 5 minute stroll needs the 0.1 hour floor (about 16 kcal for a 155 lb casual walker); and the formula caps weight at 700 lb and time at 24 hours, beyond which it returns a validation message instead of an implausible figure. Very slow strolling under 2 mph can burn fewer calories per mile than the casual setting suggests, since balance costs drop at that speed.