• gerbler@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 months ago

      Keep in mind that the more muscle you build, the more energy it takes to move that muscle therefore the more calories you’ll burn during your activities through the day. It’s not necessarily about the calories you burn during the workout but the aggregate impact downstream.

      I could be wrong though I don’t go to the gym lol.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 months ago

        By that logic a morbidly obese person is exercising harder than anyone else by moving their 600lb ass around the living room.

        • Delphia@lemmy.world
          3·
          3 months ago

          They are.

          A 600lb person walking a mile burns significantly more calories than a 200lb person doing the same thing. Im 200lbs and I can back squat 300lbs, a 600lb person squatting down and standing back up is moving more weight than I am… If they can manage it.

        • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          3 months ago

          I think this is sort of why people eating more than usual and keeping that end up heavier instead of just gaining weight forever. You burn more calories when you’re heavier.

          But, yeah, someone who is 600 pounds is burning more calories by moving than someone who is 200 pounds.

  • PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world
    131·
    3 months ago

    I’m gonna take. this opportunity to point out how stupid it is that 1 Calorie = 1kilocalorie. Actually my least favorite unit.

    • Tilgare@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 months ago

      It took me a moment when I saw the pic to come to terms with the fact that, for as many times as I’ve seen kcal previously, I somehow never realized it was was short hand for kilocalories. 🤯

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 months ago

    And since a kilocalorie is what we would call a “calorie” from food, this shows precisely how you can’t outrun a bad diet.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      21·
      3 months ago

      kcals are actually what we call Calories (note the uppercase letter). Most people don’t know that and just use lowercase without thinking though.

  • hawgietonight@lemmy.world
    44·
    3 months ago

    A typical hamburger is about 500 kcal so you would have to go up those stairs 100 times to burn it off in theory.

    But science is now saying that burning off calories isn’t related to excersise… you burn the same amount doing or not doing physical activity. So I don’t know if this is relevant anymore.