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Steps to Calories

Estimate how many calories you burn from walking a number of steps.

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Estimating energy from steps

Estimating calories from step counts is a useful way to translate daily activity into energy expenditure. Exact energy burned depends on speed, incline, body weight and metabolic differences. This tool uses a simple step-based approximation combined with your weight to give a practical estimate you can use for planning or tracking.

If you want more precise results, combine steps with walking pace and duration or use wearable-derived calorie estimates that incorporate heart rate and motion data. Still, step-based estimates are easy to compute and provide consistent feedback for behaviour change and goal setting.

Tips for tracking

Use a consistent stride length when converting steps to distance, and keep weight input up to date for better calorie estimates. Track trends over time rather than focusing on single-day estimates to understand the impact of activity on energy balance.