CALORIC EXPENDITURE: LET’S WALK TO THE LIBRARY!

Name: Alicia Conte Lab Section Time: Monday 9:10-11

Purpose: Students will be able to estimate caloric expenditure of an exercise.

NOTE: Make sure you save your estimated VO2max from last week you will need it in
today’s lab!!

Methods:

1. Students will walk to the front entrance of the Library from the BUS stop in front of
Park Center.
2. Students will time the walk (min:sec)
3. Heart rate measurements (15 sec pulse) will be taken three times: beginning of
walk, at the front of the stadium, and at the end of walk at the BUS stop in front of
Park Center.
4. Age-predicted max HR will be calculated.
5. Calculate an average HR over the entire walk
6. Calculate what percent of max HR for the walk.
7. Assuming a linear relationship with VO2, calculate the same percent from their
VO2max (from last week’s lab)
8. Change relative units for VO2max into absolute units (ml/kg/min to L/min)
9. Assume 5 kcals used for each Liter of O2 consumed
10. Calculate total kcals for the entire walk
11. Assume 3500 kcals = 1 lb of fat, calculate how many trips to the Library to burn one
pound of fat….

Data: show all calculations AND all units

Step 1. fill in HR and time data
Heart Rates (15 Heart Rates Time (min:sec)
sec) (b/min)
Start (bus stop) 24 beats 96 b/min

Student Life 27 beats 108 b/min

Center

End (Library) 32 beats 128 b/min

Average of 28 beats 111 b/min Total time

Exercise HR (min:sec)
only 16:30
Step 2. Walking HR as a percent of max HR

220 – age = max HR

220-23=197bpm

(Average walking HR)/(max HR) x 100 = Walking HR as a percent of Max HR

(111bpm)/(197bpm) =0.56

Step 3. Calculate Metabolic Cost of the walk

Use the equation on page 253 to estimate your VO2max or use the data from your 12
minute run for your VO2max estimation or from the first lab step test.

VO2max (estimated) x Walking HR as a percent of Max HR (from #2 above) = metabolic

cost of walk

VO2 walk= (40 mL/kg/min)(.56)=22 mL/kg/min

Step 4. Change metabolic cost into absolute measurement.

(VO2 (walk) in ml/kg/min (Step #3) divided by 1000) x body mass in kg = Absolute metabolic
cost of walk

22mL/kg/min/1L/1000mLx89kg= 1.96L/min

Step 5. Change absolute VO2 into kcals of energy used.

Absolute metabolic cost of walk * 5 kcals/L O2 consumed = kcals per minute of walk

1.96 L/min * 5 kcals/L= 9.8 kcals/min

Step 6. Calculate total kcals of walk

Kacls per minute of walk * number of minutes of walk (change minutes into decimal; 10min,
30 sec would be 10.5 minutes)

30 sec x 1 min/60 sec =.5 min =16.5 min/walk

9.8kcals/min *16.5 min= 161.7 kcals/walk

Step 7. Number of walks (and weeks) to use 1 lb of fat walking up to the library
Assume 3500 kcals = 1lb of fat. Show all calculations

3500kcal/161.7 kcal/walk= 21.6 walks

21.6walks/3 walks/week= 7.2 weeks
Questions:

1. Which would give a person more energy so that they could walk farther, 22.5 grams of
carbohydrates or 10g of fat? (Hint: How many calories are in 1g of fat and 1g of
carbohydrates?)

They are both 90 calories so each person would burn the same amount of calories.

2. Why might everyone in the class have a different caloric expenditure if we all walked
the same path up to the library?

Everyone weighs different, has different VO2 max and everyone’s heart beats are
different. No ones caloric expenditure can be the same because of those reasons.

3. Would taking more frequent measures of heart rate impact our data? How so?

Yes, if we took more measures of our heart rate it would impact our data because
we would have a different average, which would give us a different walking time
having all out numbers be different.