How many calories do you burn if riding a bike for 30 minutes verses running for 30 minutes?

Answer 1

It all depends relative to body weight, resistance, speed (intensity), age, and where you are riding.

For example, an 180 pound male, in average conditions, might burn somewhere close to 100 calories per ten minutes.

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Answer 2

When it comes to calorie count, how hard (and how long) you're going is much more important than what you're doing. So, assuming you're trying equally hard, both riding and running will use up pretty much the same amount of calories.

And how much depends on your age, gender, size, fitness level, and how hard you push. I'd probably do something like 400 cals/30 minutes, but I'm quite fit and like to push hard. Something like 200-300 is probably more normal.

Answer 3

Riding a human-powered, pedal-driven bicycle on flat ground at 40 mph for 30 minutes is an impossible value.

That's the kind of speed pro riders hit for maybe 5-10 seconds while sprinting for the finish line.

So unless you're an anatomical freak who somehow managed to go unnoticed by the pro teams, you've probably picked that from the display of a stationary bike.

This means the numbers are nearly entirely imaginary.

And with that, any possibility to accurately judge calorie use goes straight out the window.

Ignoring you fictious speed statement, moderate-to-intense bike riding is usually rated at 450-650 cal/hour. So you might be using up 225-325 calories.

Riding a bicycle for 30 minutes would burn about 238 calories, at 40 miles per hour, for a person that weighs 150 lbs. For a person that weighs 200 lbs. around 318 calories would be burned.

Answer 4

Going down hill, virtually none, going up hill, alot more depending on the weight of the person, the rise of the hill and the characteristics of the bike.

Answer 5

0 because you would die trying that