Caloric Estimates for Maintaining/Losing/Gaining Body Mass

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alkemyst

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When something shows calories for a particular body weight, they are not counting anything but muscle mass.

Typically people underestimate how much fat they have, average for a guy is 20% and most think they are closer to 10% or less.

so for a 165lb person they are really only 130lbs lean...or less.
 

abracadabra1

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Here's the jist of the links:

A) Current body weight

B) Caloric requirement per pound of body weight (use table 6.1)

C) Typical daily caloric requirement without exercise to maintain body weight (A x B)

D) Selected physical activity (ex.jogging)*

E) Number of excerise sessions per week

F) Duration of excerise session (in minutes)

G) Total weekly excerise time minutes (E x F)

H) Average daily excerise time in minutes( G divided 7)

I) Caloric expenditure per pound per minute. (cal/lb/min) of physical activity ( use table 6.2)

J) Total calories burned per minute of excerise ( A x I)

K) Average daily calories burned as a result of the excerise program ( H x J)

L) Total daily caloric requirement with excerise to maintain body weight ( C + K )

M) Number of calories to subtract from daily requirement to achieve a negative caloric balance. ( multiply current body weight by 5 )**

N) Target caloric intake to lose weight ( L - M )


Note* ( for step D ) If more than 1 physical activity is selected, you will need to estimate the average daily calories burned as a result of each additional activity. ( steps D through K ) and add all of these figgures to L above.

** (M) This figure should never be below 1,200 calories for women or 1,500 calories for men.




Table 6.1 Calories per pound

Activity Rating Men Women

Sedentary--Limited activity 13.0 12.0

Moderate Physical Activity 15.0 13.5

Hard Labor - Strenuous physical effort 17.0 15.0

* Pregnant or lactating women add 3 calories to these values

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Table 6.2


Activity* Cal/lb/min**

Aerobelt Excerise

Aero-belt Jogging/6 mph = 0.098

Aero-belt Step-aerobics/ 8" = 0.105

Aero-belt Walking/4 mph = 0.073

Aerobics
Moderate = 0.065
High Impact = 0.095
Step- Aerobics = 0.070


Archery = 0.030

Badminton
Recreational = 0.038
Competition = 0.065

Baseball = 0.031

Basket Ball
Moderate = 0.046
Competition = 0.063

Bowling = 0.030

Calistghenics = 0.033

Cycling (level)
5.5mph = 0.033
10.0mph = 0.050
13.0mph = 0.071

Dance
Moderate = 0.030
Vigorous = 0.055

Golf = 0.030

Gymnastics
Light = 0.030
Heavy = 0.056

Handball = 0.064
Hiking = 0.040

Judo/Karate = 0.086

Racqueball = 0.065
Rope Jumping = 0.060

Rowing (vigorous) = 0.090

Running
11.0 min/mile = 0.070
8.5 min/mile = 0.090
7.0 min/mile = 0.102
6.0 min/mile = 0.114

Deep Water*** = 0.100

Skateing (moderate) = 0.038

Sking
Downhill = 0.060
Level(5mph) = 0.078

Soccer = 0.059

Stair Master
Moderate = 0.070
Vigorous = 0.090

Stationary Cycling
Modera = 0.055
Vigorous = 0.070

Strength Training = 0.050
Swimming (crawl)
20yds/min = 0.031
25 yds/min = 0.040
45 yds/min = 0.057
50 yds/min = 0.070

Table Tennis = 0.030

Tennis
Moderate = 0.045
Competition = 0.064

Volleyball = 0.030

Walking
4.5 mph = 0.045

In a shallow pool

Water Aerobics
Moderate = 0.050
Vigorous = 0.070
Wrestling = 0.085

* Values are only for the actual time engaged in the activity

** Cal/lb/min = calories per pound of body weight per minute of activity

*** Treading Water



 

alkemyst

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some of these activities also raise your basic metabolic rate after them for quite sometime.

If someone is going to try to figure out how much they use based on 'burning' charts you'll need to figure that in too.

It's best to error on the side of deficiet if you want to loose and on the side of too much intake if you want to gain.

Then just watch your body (this is ALOT easier to do if thin already) and see if you gain or lose definition.

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