Push Up Calories Calculator: Find The Calories Burned Doing Push-Ups

How many calories do you burn by doing Push-Ups?

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Tom Miller, CSCS
Tom Miller, CSCS, is a Sr. Editor & Content Strategist with 10 years of experience in Powerlifting and Personal Training. As a Certified Strength and Conditioning...
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Calories Burned Push Up Calculator
Calories Burned Push Up Calculator
One push-up burns between 0.3 and 0.6 calories, depending on your weight and exercise intensity. The average person weighing 175 pounds will burn approximately 317-667 calories per hour by doing Push-Ups.
 
Find out how many calories you burn doing push-ups. 
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Calories Burned with Home Exercises (Weight: 175lbs)

ExerciseMET15m30m45m60m
Abs Exercises7.0150300450600
Burpees8.0171343514686
Jumping Rope8.8189377566754
Squats5.5118236354472
Jumping Jacks7.7165330495660
Sit-Ups8.0171343514686
Lunges4.086171257343
Kettlebells8.0171343514686
Push-Ups3.881163244326
Rowing4.8103206309411
Bridges3.064129193257
Deadlifting6.0129257386514
Calisthenics - Vigorous8.0171343514686

How to Use Push-up Calories Calculator

To calculate the calories burned doing push ups you just need to input your weight and time spent doing the push ups activity in minutes. 

This is how you do that step-by-step:

  1. Choose your unit of measurement – metric (kilograms) or imperial (pounds)
  2. Enter your weight
  3. Select the specific Push-up activity and add the number of minutes you spent doing it
  4. Hit Calculate

You will now see the approximate calories burned doing push-ups exercise.

How The Calculator Works

This calculator uses the MET value (Metabolic Equivalent of Task) of Push-Ups.  This value is used to rate the calorie expenditure of various physical activities and is in the MET formula for calorie calculation. Please note this formula does not factor in things like sex, age, muscle mass, or previous ability.

Push Up Calories Formula

Total Calories burned per minute = (3.5 x MET x body weight in kg)/200

Examples

  • Weight of a person: 175 lbs
  • MET value: 3.8 (Push-Ups Moderate Effort) – 8 (Push-Ups Vigorous Effort)
  • Time: 60 minutes

The calorie calculation for Push-Ups for 60 minutes is as follows:

(175/2.20462) * 8 * 0.0175 * 30 minutes = 333

The average person weighing 180 pounds will burn approximately 326-686 calories per hour by doing Push-Ups.

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Push-Up Benefits

When it comes to bodyweight exercises that work your upper body pushing muscles (chest, triceps, and shoulders), the push-up is king. Below are some of the benefits of doing push-ups:

How Many Calories do Push-ups Burn?

The average person weighing 190 pounds.

Number of push ups 20 push ups per min 25 push ups per min 30 push ups per min 35 push ups per min 40 push ups per min
10 push ups 3 2 2 1.6 1.4
20 push ups 6 5 4 3 3
30 push ups 9 7 6 5 4
40 push ups 11 9 8 7 6
50 push ups 14 11 10 8 7
80 push ups 23 18 15 13 11
100 push ups 29 23 19 16 14
200 push ups 57 46 38 33 29

Related: 13 Next Level Push-Up Variations For Mass, Strength, and Performance

FAQs

How many calories does a pushup burn?

The calorie burn rate for a pushup varies, ranging from approximately 0.3 to 0.6 calories, and depends on factors such as the type of pushup and your body weight.

How many push-ups burn 100 calories?

An individual weighing 180 pounds can burn approximately 326-686 calories per hour by performing push-ups. If we assume that a person can do push-ups at a moderate exercise intensity, then it would take around 150-333 push-ups to burn 100 calories. However, this is only an estimate, and the number of push-ups needed to burn 100 calories may vary depending on the weight and intensity of the exercise.

How many calories do 50 push ups burn?

An individual weighing 180 pounds would burn approximately 15-30 calories if they performed 50 push-ups at a moderate level of exercise intensity.

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Tom Miller, CSCS, is a Sr. Editor & Content Strategist with 10 years of experience in Powerlifting and Personal Training. As a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, he is dedicated to delivering informative, engaging, and reliable health and fitness content. His work has been featured on websites including the-sun.com, Well+Good, Bleacher Report, Muscle and Fitness, UpJourney, Business Insider, NewsBreak and more.
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