How Many Calories are Burned by Jogging?
For running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile), which is a typical intensity activity under the general description of jogging activities, the average calories burned by a person weighing 190 pounds (86 Kg) in 30 minutes is 358 Calories. In one hour running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) will burn 715 Calories.
Summary of Jogging Information and Charts
To help you find the information you need, we first focus on running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) which is the most common jogging activity. This is followed by the activities with the highest burn rate which is running or jogging at a speed of 7 mph or 8:30 pace (minutes/mile), and the lowest which is jogging, on a mini-tramp, giving the average calories burned per minute and per hour, along with food calorie equivalents and our new proprietary calories burned score© and calories burned rank©The calorie score gives an indication of the relative burn rate of the jogging activities measured as a percentage score out of 100 for the different jogging activities, where 100% is the maximum calorie burn which we estimate from running at a pace of 4 minutes per mile which is a world class speed for running for 30 mins.
The calorie rank is the rank of the jogging activity compared with all other 800 activities in our database to give an indication of the percentage of activities which have a higher or lower calorie burn. A rank of 1 means it is the highest ranking activity in terms or calorie burn and a rank of 100 means it is the activity with the lowest carlorie burn compared with all other activities.
Effect of Intensity on the Calorie Calculator
Although the above is a typical example for jogging, the calculator we use to determine the calories burnt depends on the intensity, duration and your body weight. At the bottom of the article we have a variety of different intensities which can be personalized based on your weight and the duration of the activities, using our free calculator.
Calorie Score and Calorie Rank for Jogging
At dietandfitnesstoday we have a new proprietary concept of a Calories Burned Score© and Calories Burned Rank©.
Calories Burned in 30 Minutes for a Typical jogging Activity
As we have previously mentioned Running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) is a moderate and typical level of intensity for jogging and can be used as a general representative approximate measure for calories burnt by jogging. For this activity in 30 minutes an average man weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) burns 358 Calories, while an average woman weighing 163 pounds (74 kg), in 30 minutes burns 307 Calories.
Calories Per Minute
The calories burned per minute for Running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) is 12 Calories per minute, for a typical man and for a typical female is 10 Calories per minute.
Calories Per Hour
The calories lost in one hour is 715 calories for a typical man, and 614 calories in one hour for a typical woman.
How to Burn 100 Calories
To burn 100 calories for a typical male would require 8 minutes of the activity running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) and to burn 100 calories with the same jogging activity for a typical female would take 10 minutes.
Score and Rank
Running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) has a Calorie Burned Score© of 34.00 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 34.00 % of the highest realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calorie Burned Rank© of 48.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 48.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 109.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile)
Equivalent Activities
The following activities burn the same number of calories as Running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) -
- carrying load upstairs, general
- climbing hills with 21 to 42 lb load
- felling trees, large size
- rugby, union, team, competitive
- steel mill, vigorous effort (e.g., hand rolling, merchant mill rolling, removing slag, tending furnace)
Comparison with Inactivity
30 mins of inactivity for example just sitting and watching television burns 43 calories for a typical man and 37 calories for a typical woman. Which means Running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) burns 9.0 times more calories than the equivalent time of inactivity for an average man and 8.3 times more calories for an average female.
Food Calorie Equivalents
This level of 358 calories burnt by an average man running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) is equivalent to 0.6 Big Macs, 1.3 snickers bar, 3.0 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 1.2 cheeseburgers, 1.3 slices of pizza or 0.9 large blueberry muffins.
For an average female burning 307 calories is equivalent to 0.5 Big Macs, 1.1 snickers bar, 2.6 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 1.0 cheeseburgers, 1.1 slices of pizza or 0.8 large blueberry muffins.
Weight Loss from Jogging
To answer the question how many pounds will I lose from the activity jogging? Taking this example of running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) in 30 minutes, the weight loss for a typical man is a minimum of 0.05 pounds, and a typical woman would lose 0.04 pounds.
Based on 4 sessions per week of running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) for a duration of 30 minutes per session, the approximate time taken to lose one pound is 5 weeks for a man and 6 weeks for a woman, assuming no other changes in lifestyle or eating habits.
The same 4 sessions per week of running or jogging at a speed of 5 mph or 12:00 pace (minutes/mile) for a duration of 30 minutes per session, would lose 1kg in 2 weeks for a man and 3 weeks for a woman.
Jogging Activity with the Highest Calorie Burn
The highest number of calories burned for an average person is achieved by running or jogging at a speed of 7 mph or 8:30 pace (minutes/mile). For this activity in 30 minutes an average man burns 474 Calories, while an average woman in 30 minutes burns 407 Calories.
This activity of running or jogging at a speed of 7 mph or 8:30 pace (minutes/mile) has a Calories Burned Score© of 46.10 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 46.10 % of the maximum realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calories Burned Rank© of 32.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 32.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 48.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than running or jogging at a speed of 7 mph or 8:30 pace (minutes/mile)
Jogging Activity with the Lowest Calorie Burn
The jogging activity with the lowest calories burnt is jogging, on a mini-tramp, which for an average man in 30 minutes burns 194 Calories, and for an average woman burns 166 Calories.
This activity of jogging, on a mini-tramp has a Calories Burned Score© of 16.90 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 16.90 % of the maximum realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calories Burned Rank© of 74.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 74.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 366.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than jogging, on a mini-tramp
Average Calories Burned by Jogging
Based on the the list of 11 jogging activities, shown below, the average calories burned for an average male, weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) is 352 Calories for 30 minutes of jogging. The average burnt for an average female, weighing 163 pounds (74 kg) is 302 Calories for 30 minutes of jogging.
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