How many calories does running a mile burn and can running 3-4 miles a day help me get in really good shape?
There are two parts to your question and they are not really related 1) How many calories will you burn per mile of running? The usual answer to this question is 100 calories per mile. But in “Energy Expenditure of Walking and Running,” published last December in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, a group of Syracuse University researchers measured the actual calorie burn of 12 men and 12 women while running and walking 1,600 meters (roughly a mile) on a treadmill. Result: The men burned an average of 124 calories while running and just 88 while walking; the women burned 105 and 74. (The men burned more than the women because they weighed more.) Even this is not a real answer to your question because you will burn some calories just sitting there on your couch. We really should consider the net calorie burn (NCB) when discussing the calorie burn number. To figure the NCB of any activity, you must subtract the resting metabolic calories your body would have burned, during the time
