🔥 Calorie Burn Calculator
Pick an activity, enter your bodyweight and how long you trained, and see the calories you burned plus a per-minute rate — built on documented MET values for common sports.
🔥 Estimate Calories Burned
What is a Calorie Burn Calculator?
It estimates the energy a workout costs using the MET model — the standard way sports scientists compare the intensity of activities. Each sport carries a documented MET value, and the calculator combines that with your bodyweight and how long you trained to return total calories and a per-minute burn rate.
Knowing roughly what an activity burns helps you balance training with nutrition, compare cardio options, and set fuelling goals. Because MET values are averages, treat the result as a well-grounded estimate for comparison and trend-tracking rather than an exact calorie count.
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
How does the calorie burn calculator work?
Choose an activity, enter your bodyweight, and set how long you exercised. Each activity has a documented MET value (Metabolic Equivalent of Task), and the calculator multiplies MET by your weight in kilograms and the duration in hours to estimate total calories burned, then divides by minutes for a per-minute rate.
What is a MET?
A MET, or Metabolic Equivalent of Task, expresses the energy cost of an activity relative to sitting quietly, which is defined as 1 MET. Brisk activities carry higher values — running sits around 9.8 METs and yoga around 2.5 — so a higher MET means more calories burned per minute at a given bodyweight.
Why does bodyweight affect calories burned?
Moving a heavier body requires more energy, so at the same activity and duration a heavier person burns more calories. That's why the MET formula multiplies by bodyweight: two athletes doing the identical workout can have noticeably different calorie totals purely because of their mass.
How accurate are MET-based calorie estimates?
MET values are population averages, so they're a solid approximation rather than an exact figure. Your real burn shifts with intensity, terrain, fitness, technique, and body composition. Use these numbers to compare activities and track trends over time rather than as a precise calorie count.