Get Moving Calculator
Ever wondered how much energy you burn up in various activities? Want to know how long you need to walk to burn off a digestive biscuit or chocolate milkshake? Then you have come to the right place.
Enter your weight, age and sex into the table below, choose an activity and a number of minutes for that activity. Click on calculate to find out how many calories or kilojoules that activity would use.
Our calculator will give you a general guide to how much energy you burn up in these activities. But it is only a guide – two people doing the same exercise may burn up very differing amounts, dependant on factors such as their age, weight, fitness and the effort they put into the activity.
If you want to increase the amount of activity you do each day and so increase the amount of energy you burn up then get into good regular habits. Try:
- Helping around the house
- Washing the car by hand
- Climbing the stairs more often
- Cutting the grass every week
- Take the stairs more often, not the lift or escalator
- Go for a brisk walk when you have spare time
- Walk or cycle to the shops, college or school instead of going by car or bus
- Get off the bus or tube a stop earlier and walk the rest of the way
- Limit TV, computer games and consoles to no more than 2 hours a day
- Take up a new sport or activity
