Enter your body weight and time spent pulling weeds to calculate your calories burned pulling weeds. At a steady pace, pulling weeds burns about 90 calories per 30 minutes for every 100 pounds of body weight.

Calories Burned Pulling Weeds Calculator

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Basic uses a steady weeding pace. Advanced lets you choose your pace.

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Calories Burned Pulling Weeds Formula

Use the following formula to calculate calories burned pulling weeds:

Calories Burned = Weight (lb) × Minutes × Pace Factor

Variables:

  • Weight (lb) = your body weight in pounds
  • Minutes = total time spent pulling weeds
  • Pace Factor = 0.0238 for light weeding, 0.0302 for steady weeding, and 0.0397 for vigorous weeding

Basic mode uses the steady weeding factor of 0.0302.

30-Minute Pulling Weeds Calorie Guide

For 30 minutes of steady weeding, a 120-pound person burns about 109 calories, a 150-pound person burns about 136 calories, a 180-pound person burns about 163 calories, and a 200-pound person burns about 181 calories.

What Affects Calories Burned Pulling Weeds?

  • Body weight: Heavier body weight increases calories burned over the same amount of time.
  • Pace: Slow cleanup weeding burns less than continuous pulling at a steady or fast pace.
  • Yard conditions: Thick roots, hard soil, squatting, bending, and carrying piles of weeds all increase the workload.

How to Calculate Calories Burned Pulling Weeds

  1. Enter your weight in pounds.
  2. Enter the number of minutes you spent pulling weeds.
  3. If needed, switch to Advanced and choose your weeding pace.
  4. Click Calculate to see your calories burned.

Example

A 150-pound person pulling weeds for 30 minutes at a steady pace would burn:

Calories Burned = 150 × 30 × 0.0302 = 135.9

Rounded to the nearest whole number, that equals 136 calories.