KINE 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Binge Eating

If you begin an exercise program and burn 7 Calories per minute by walking, how many hours of walking per day would you have to do in two weeks to lose 5 pounds? You must burn an extra 3500 Calories to lose one pound of body weight.

If you begin exercise program and burn 7 calories per minute by walking, how many hours of walking per day would you have to do in two weeks to lose 5 pounds? You must burn an extra 3500 Calories to lose one pound of body weight.

The maximum sustainable mechanical power a human can produce isabout 1/3hp.
How many food calories can a human burn up in an hour by exercisingat this rate? (Remember that only 20.0 of the food energy used goesinto mechanical energy.)

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