Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs
Attempt to motivate people to take the stairs
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Are these numbers even remotely correct?
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I found this study which would suggest it's ballpark correct, depending on your weight and what you're carrying
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Something like 8 kCal for the equivalent of 3 floors seems about right.
Exercise doesn't consume that much energy compared to just running the body (unless you do immense amounts of it).
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Probably. A few calories per flight. We are pretty efficient creatures.
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In exercise, Kilocalorie and calorie are used interchangeably
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They try to make a distinction when referring to kilocalories as Calories, it's literally just that Calorie (kcal) is capitalized and calorie (cal) is not.
It's a dumb system.
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It's all just because
Americansedit: the majority of Americans have a pathological aversion to metric prefixes
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Yeah, I just realized my mistake and attempted to delete my comment before anyone else could see it... no luck this time.
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It's cool. People will see it and learn.
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That's mad
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A calorie and a kilocalorie are the same thing when talking about nutrition/exercise. Which is 1000 "small" calories.
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