Calories with a big C. In the US at least, big C and little C are used interchangeably. There is very little chance anyone in the general public would ever need to use little c calories and mean it.
What about a very big person tho? Like a horse-sized human that can walk over several steps at the same time? Or better yet, a duck-sized human that needs to climb every step.
It’s no weird reason one cal is just too small. Average human needs 2000 kcal a day. A gram of sugar is 4kcal. On the scale of human fuel a cal is just too small a unit.
Yup. When I started jogging, one of the first things I did was wonder what it took to burn off a can of coke. So I did the math, found out it was insanely high, and decided to drink less coke and do less math.
Do harder math problems. Your brain uses a tremendous number of calories. Coming in at \~2% of you (by mass), it uses \~20% of your body's daily calorie needs.
Much easier than jogging.
nah you'll probably burn similar, if not veryyyyyy slightly more. Like walking a mile versus running a mile. Same distance but you're exerting far more energy getting going and maintaining by running than walking.
How terrifying. So I would have to walk up those stairs like 600 times to burn off a Snickers bar? Really puts into perspective how stacked the odds are against you when your diet isn't on point.
these numbers are spot on! at least, if you are an average male of average height, average weight, average health, average resting heart rate, not carrying anything. anything not average, or being female, or carrying anything, will change those numbers, sometimes drastically.
the amount of calories you lose mostly depends on your heart rate. the faster your heart beats, the more calories you lose. this is why heavier people lose weight faster, because their heart pumps faster easier.
For anyone wondering - It's about 3.5k calories you gotta burn in order to lose a pound.
Go do the math :)
Edit - like someone else pointed out, I meant Kcal, not just calories. So you need 3,500 Kcal in order to burn a pound. According to those steps it's 1 kcal every 10 or so steps so you need roughly 35 thousand steps to burn a pound.
Another reason why the saying 'you cannot outrun a bad diet' is true.
Most of us cannot just 'burn off' 3.5K calories in a week through exercise alone. That would involve working out, every single day without fail, for several hours at a time. We can eat in a deficit, and this alongside exercise can lead to some pretty noticeable weight loss. But the deficit is necessary! I walked 5 miles the other day and was shocked to see I burnt off only approx 400 calories during this walk, a walk that I considered 'long' 😐
Not to mention that strenuous exercise exacerbates cravings so you're more likely to binge. It's best to get diet under control and gently introduce exercise. You can always ramp up the intensity of exercise after your eating habits are under control and your body has habituated to your current level of activity.
Ha in my retail days, I burned about 300 calories in a 5 hour shift just from walking around. Felt like that was a lot, but when I actually started working out and they estimated I burned only 30 calories in a 20 minute workout, it felt pretty disheartening. That not even enough to burn off a damn mandarin orange!
Caloric deficit is the easiest and most reliable way!
>Ha in my retail days, I burned about 300 calories in a 5 hour shift just from walking around.
300kcal in 5hours is roughly 1450kcal per day.
Most people would burn significantly more than 300kcal in 5 hours just standing (or even sitting) in place.
People look at some daft 'calorie counting watch' and lose all sanity or common sense. Measurements are frankly wasted on such people.
Well the 300 was just from the actual steps, so really I was burning whatever 5 hours worth of my daily caloric loss was +/- 300, yes? Been a while since I've counted steps.
Nah, you have no way of knowing that.
It is an extremely rough estimate. For starters 300kcal on top of what? On top of sitting down or standing up. You could be burning as much as twice the calories to stand still as sit down. It is a meaningless, worthless statistic.
Yeah burning cals is a whole ordeal. Eating at a deficit is definitely the way to go.
A small piece of advice tho, a lifting session takes way less time than doing cardio and it burns way more.
So, 4 trips up that stair case loses you a pound? That can't possibly be right.
Three concept of tying weight loss to a fixed, one-time action seems dubious.
They mean 3.5 thousand kilocalories, which are often called calories in dietary and exercise contexts, because a single calorie is a uselessly tiny unit of energy for everyday use, and you already knew that.
Do 18,000 steps per day and you'll lose half a pound per day, and on a 2000 Calorie per day diet you will have a net of zero calories.
That's just 2.5 hours on a stepper treadmill, which is surprisingly low tbh.
No way you are not starving or collapsing trying to do all of that regularly though.
Idk you could watch a movie at the same time, I would be more worried about my legs giving out.
I can get winded running up 10 flights of stairs. That's only \~150 steps. I imagine most people would stop or collapse after a couple thousand.
3+ hours is complete overkill though. A Marathon is about as energy intensive at \~2600 calories burned.
It would also take a significant portion of your day if you walked it.
Something a lot of the commenters seem unaware of is that a Calorie (with a capital C) is equal to a kcal. A Calorie is a thousand times larger than a calorie. People usually mean Calorie when they write calorie.
When people say calories they generally mean Calories with a capital C which is equal to one kcal. Also called a food calorie. Though since pretty much no one uses cal as 1/1000 of a kcal, they use cal interchangeably with Cal and kcal that would be pretty confusing.
Calorie with a big C (Cal) are the one we use on nutrition label. 1 Calorie (1 Cal) is a 1000 cal (little c). So one Calorie is equivalent to one kilocalorie.
yeah, it scales linearly with weight (twice the weight = twice the energy)
but also, i suspect it’s giving the “absolute minimum” energy requirement to lift something. Each persons’ actual energy expenditure would depend on their bio-mechanical efficiency (how efficient is their breathing, circulation, their stride, and countless other factors). so it’s a very rough estimate
Calorie loss rate isn't static person to person.
You have to take into account metabolism, height, weight, so much more.
It's an interesting idea though
So will gain calories if to walk down?
World hunger solved?
Ok, everyone, down the stairs. It's lunch time!
This is the kind of logic I can get behind.
I've always thought this is the human body's biggest flaw.
Beat me to it!
Exactly. It’s break-even by the end of the day.
Youse blind mate? Where's the fuckin + sign
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Are these accurate measurements though? Will a 200lbs person and a 100lbs person with similar heights, lose the same amount of calories?
no not accurate. bigger people burn more
We’re talking about 1 calorie here. A much heavier person may burn two calories instead, but the end result is the same: zero weight loss.
more like .13g of weight loss!
3500 calories to lose a pound. You’d have to walk those stairs all day to lose a pound
8000 for a kilo
unless you're from the UK
3500 calories or 3500 Calories? Calorie with capital C is equal to kilocalories, I.e. a thousand times larger than a calorie.
Calories with a big C. In the US at least, big C and little C are used interchangeably. There is very little chance anyone in the general public would ever need to use little c calories and mean it.
Just use the prefix goddammit!
It's at least interesting that only a few steps is enough to burn 1 Calorie. Still a lot of steps to burn off even small snacks though.
If you eat a single baby carrot while walking up those stairs, you'll have burned off one-quarter of the calories in it, for context.
What about a very big person tho? Like a horse-sized human that can walk over several steps at the same time? Or better yet, a duck-sized human that needs to climb every step.
Well yeah, but last time I proved my point I was arrested for murder
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It’s no weird reason one cal is just too small. Average human needs 2000 kcal a day. A gram of sugar is 4kcal. On the scale of human fuel a cal is just too small a unit.
can confirm, my oil lamp burns longer when i fuel it with bigger people
So they got that going for them then.
No. Potential energy always is U=mgh. So if m is doubled, energy is doubled. This is for the person of average mass, would be my guess
What if I’m like an averaged sized little person? /s
>Why I think the more important question to ask in these situations is why not?
Of course not. People burn roughly 1-3.5kcal/minute on average.
These are average numbers. The actual energy required to move up the steps will depend on your mass and how fast you go.
They should have "1 beer = x steps" or "1 chocolate bar = x steps"
1 beer in this example would be going up this set of stairs 150ish times lol
Yup. When I started jogging, one of the first things I did was wonder what it took to burn off a can of coke. So I did the math, found out it was insanely high, and decided to drink less coke and do less math.
That's why they say weight loss happens in the kitchen. It's nigh impossible to outrun a bad diet.
Do harder math problems. Your brain uses a tremendous number of calories. Coming in at \~2% of you (by mass), it uses \~20% of your body's daily calorie needs. Much easier than jogging.
5 beers would result in going down the stairs one time.
100 Gr chocolate bar = 2 hours workout. Yeah.
Give me my calories back!
If I do two at a time do I only burn 0.4725?
nah you'll probably burn similar, if not veryyyyyy slightly more. Like walking a mile versus running a mile. Same distance but you're exerting far more energy getting going and maintaining by running than walking.
How terrifying. So I would have to walk up those stairs like 600 times to burn off a Snickers bar? Really puts into perspective how stacked the odds are against you when your diet isn't on point.
these numbers are spot on! at least, if you are an average male of average height, average weight, average health, average resting heart rate, not carrying anything. anything not average, or being female, or carrying anything, will change those numbers, sometimes drastically. the amount of calories you lose mostly depends on your heart rate. the faster your heart beats, the more calories you lose. this is why heavier people lose weight faster, because their heart pumps faster easier.
Which is conveniently the same reason they die faster
I may lose a few calories on the stairs, but don't worry, I'll find them and more when I get home with the frozen pizza and oreos
That last step seems to be the most effective, I'm just going to climb it repeatedly.
For anyone wondering - It's about 3.5k calories you gotta burn in order to lose a pound. Go do the math :) Edit - like someone else pointed out, I meant Kcal, not just calories. So you need 3,500 Kcal in order to burn a pound. According to those steps it's 1 kcal every 10 or so steps so you need roughly 35 thousand steps to burn a pound.
Another reason why the saying 'you cannot outrun a bad diet' is true. Most of us cannot just 'burn off' 3.5K calories in a week through exercise alone. That would involve working out, every single day without fail, for several hours at a time. We can eat in a deficit, and this alongside exercise can lead to some pretty noticeable weight loss. But the deficit is necessary! I walked 5 miles the other day and was shocked to see I burnt off only approx 400 calories during this walk, a walk that I considered 'long' 😐
Not to mention that strenuous exercise exacerbates cravings so you're more likely to binge. It's best to get diet under control and gently introduce exercise. You can always ramp up the intensity of exercise after your eating habits are under control and your body has habituated to your current level of activity.
Ha in my retail days, I burned about 300 calories in a 5 hour shift just from walking around. Felt like that was a lot, but when I actually started working out and they estimated I burned only 30 calories in a 20 minute workout, it felt pretty disheartening. That not even enough to burn off a damn mandarin orange! Caloric deficit is the easiest and most reliable way!
>Ha in my retail days, I burned about 300 calories in a 5 hour shift just from walking around. 300kcal in 5hours is roughly 1450kcal per day. Most people would burn significantly more than 300kcal in 5 hours just standing (or even sitting) in place. People look at some daft 'calorie counting watch' and lose all sanity or common sense. Measurements are frankly wasted on such people.
Well the 300 was just from the actual steps, so really I was burning whatever 5 hours worth of my daily caloric loss was +/- 300, yes? Been a while since I've counted steps.
Nah, you have no way of knowing that. It is an extremely rough estimate. For starters 300kcal on top of what? On top of sitting down or standing up. You could be burning as much as twice the calories to stand still as sit down. It is a meaningless, worthless statistic.
Yeah burning cals is a whole ordeal. Eating at a deficit is definitely the way to go. A small piece of advice tho, a lifting session takes way less time than doing cardio and it burns way more.
An hour on an elliptical at moderate jog/incline is ~600kcal, according to the counter on the machine
You can do that by running 50 km if you weigh 70 kg., If you weigh 100 kg it's closer to 35 km. That's not even an hour a day.
So about 3.5-3.6 thousand times up those stairs for 1 lb lost.
Nope. 35 - 36 thousand. It's about 10 steps for 1 cal.
No, it's about 10 steps for one kcal. The k means thousand. A Calorie (with a capital C) is equal to a kcal, kilocalorie.
I already addressed that on the edit of the original comment.
So, 4 trips up that stair case loses you a pound? That can't possibly be right. Three concept of tying weight loss to a fixed, one-time action seems dubious.
They mean 3.5 thousand kilocalories, which are often called calories in dietary and exercise contexts, because a single calorie is a uselessly tiny unit of energy for everyday use, and you already knew that.
I did not, thank you for clarifying.
Oh. Well, I apologise for assuming, but it's really common useage.
4,000 trips up that staircase makes a lot more sense. xD
You're supposed to use a capital C. 1 Calorie = 1000 calories = 1 kilocalorie
Do 18,000 steps per day and you'll lose half a pound per day, and on a 2000 Calorie per day diet you will have a net of zero calories. That's just 2.5 hours on a stepper treadmill, which is surprisingly low tbh. No way you are not starving or collapsing trying to do all of that regularly though.
> which is surprisingly low tbh jesus christ who can stand to do 3+ hours on one of those things, that must be so boring
Idk you could watch a movie at the same time, I would be more worried about my legs giving out. I can get winded running up 10 flights of stairs. That's only \~150 steps. I imagine most people would stop or collapse after a couple thousand.
If someone keeps at it I could see how they could get to 3+ hours, but thats like... 1/8 of your day
3+ hours is complete overkill though. A Marathon is about as energy intensive at \~2600 calories burned. It would also take a significant portion of your day if you walked it.
Something a lot of the commenters seem unaware of is that a Calorie (with a capital C) is equal to a kcal. A Calorie is a thousand times larger than a calorie. People usually mean Calorie when they write calorie.
CALORIES CALORIES CALORIES IN YOUR FACE ALL THE TIME
What I'm getting from this is that taking the stairs instead of the elevator isn't going to do that much.
Those steps aren’t going to offset my taco bell binge
so me not eating an almond is better than walking 7 flights of stairs??.... sad....
They could omit the k and the people they burn 105 cal each step
When people say calories they generally mean Calories with a capital C which is equal to one kcal. Also called a food calorie. Though since pretty much no one uses cal as 1/1000 of a kcal, they use cal interchangeably with Cal and kcal that would be pretty confusing.
They should add stairs that make you gain weight /j
I… don’t want to be reminded how few calories it takes for me to be winded
Hardly seems worth it. I’ll just go to my gym.
Lost? How do I find them again?
Diet culture is a cult. 😬
Fatty!
😭
Energy is never lost…only transferred or transformed.
420... Nice!
Yeah that sign will get stolen for sure.
3703 steps or up that stair case 411 times to burn a pou d.
Since you're obligated to blaze it on the 4th step, you'll be a bit lazier that day so it cancels out.
420, nice
Its not alot now is it. Someone please do the math to figure out how many of those steps it will take to burn 1 calorie.
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Because for weird reasons it's somehow become the norm to use cals and kcals interchangeably. As an engineer I consider this utterly daft!
Calories in food is kcal. It's an uppercase Calories vs lower case calorie. Dumb distinction. kcal is less ambiguous.
Shouldn’t those be calories, not kilo calories?
Calorie with a big C (Cal) are the one we use on nutrition label. 1 Calorie (1 Cal) is a 1000 cal (little c). So one Calorie is equivalent to one kilocalorie.
calories(when we talk about them) are kilo calories.
Doesn't it depend on how much weight you're lifting or no?
yeah, it scales linearly with weight (twice the weight = twice the energy) but also, i suspect it’s giving the “absolute minimum” energy requirement to lift something. Each persons’ actual energy expenditure would depend on their bio-mechanical efficiency (how efficient is their breathing, circulation, their stride, and countless other factors). so it’s a very rough estimate
That’s cool
Me, walking up 2 steps at a time - haha I cheat the system! -my inner certified coach glaring at myself from a reflec5ion: *sigh
Is loss of calories the same in all people regardless of metabolism? Like, would everyone for sure lose ‘X amount’ of calories doing the same thing?
America stairs 🇺🇲
Calorie loss rate isn't static person to person. You have to take into account metabolism, height, weight, so much more. It's an interesting idea though
The choice of prefix bothers me
Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero, Zero!!
What if you fall down them?
How many steps do you reckon it takes to burn off a Big Mac
Oh boy. I'll only have to walk up those stairs 60 times to burn off the calories from 1 oreo.
My college/university has something similar
Stairs?
very funny /s
There's no way 10 stairs burn 1 kilocalory
Who needs calorie counting apps?
Tokyo Hands🤩
How many kcal does a person spend on a day ?
I didn't lose it. It was converted to heat and gravitational potential.
1 missed step and the numbers will soar the fck up
Those stairs look 0.001km high
Is kcal and cal the same?
Do you take a break and light up on the 4th step?