Exercise Help Please?

Question

How many calories would you burn if you walked 1 hour? And how many would you burn if you ran 1 hour?

Also what's considered excessive exercise?

Answer 1

Well, it depends on factors such as age, size, s*x, etc., but as a rule of thumb, you burn about 500 calories for an hour of walking at 4 miles per hour.  Now, if you've never walked 4 miles an hour, you need to understand that while that is not jogging, it's still a pretty fast pace.  

Swimming laps continuously for an hour (which is very challenging) burns 470-670 calories an hour.  Running would be less but comparable to that--not many people run hard for an hour...

Excessive exercise would be if you're body is left exhausted instead of energized (after a short recovery period of say 30-60 minutes) or if you're getting too thin and not fueling your body properly, or if your body isn't functioning properly--for example, a girl would stop having her period.