If losing weight is your workout priority, then running is a good workout choice. Minute for minute
running is the most efficient form of exercise to lose calories. Spending one hour of running will burn
more calories than any other form of exercise. The key factors affecting calories burned are your weight
and level of exertion; the more your weight, the more energy required for you to cover a particular
distance. For instance, a 70Kg person running a mile will burn 100 - 120 calories, whereas a 90Kg person
running the same distance will burn 135 - 155 calories. Running speed does have some impact but it's
pretty negligible. Covering a greater distance has a much higher impact on the running calories rather
than the speed at which you do it.
To get a rough estimate of how much calories you're burning through running, Gympik.com brings to
you this simple calculator which estimates the calories that you burn while running any given distance.
Besides your age and weight, it also takes into consideration the grade of the running surface that you
are on (i.e. the incline or decline) and whether you are running on a treadmill or not. The running
surface is taken into consideration because more calories are burned as the incline of the surface
increases, and lesser calories are burned as the decline of the surface increases. Whether or not you are
running on a treadmill is taken into consideration because, as a treadmill runner, you don't need to
overcome air resistance and, therefore, consume slightly lesser energy than those running on solid
ground.
