Estimate calories burned doing dips from body weight and number of reps or active minutes, including weighted dips, or find the time for a calorie goal.
How the Dips Calorie Calculator Works
The calculator uses the 3.0-MET general bodyweight-resistance category or the 6.5-MET high-intensity category from the 2024 Adult Compendium. These are broad categories, not dip-specific measurements. Repetition mode converts sets, reps, and seconds per rep to cumulative active time.
Formula: gross kcal ≈ MET x 3.5 x body mass in kg / 200 x active minutes
What the Results Show
The primary result is the gross calorie estimate or the time required for a target. Supporting results show calories above rest, calorie rate, the selected activity value, and substituted calculation steps.
Calculator-Specific Detail
When optional hanging weight is entered, the main calorie estimate still uses body weight. Supporting outputs show external-load training volume and a separate illustrative gross-calorie comparison using body mass plus added mass. That comparison is not a validated weighted-dip energy estimate.
Assumptions and Limitations
Enter actual active dip time rather than a full workout clock containing long rests. The optional added-load comparison is a hypothetical moving-mass model; external weight is not metabolically active body tissue. The above-rest estimate uses body weight only. MET estimates describe typical group energy cost, so an individual’s result can vary with technique, conditioning, rest behavior, and equipment. The Adult Compendium is intended for adults aged 19–59.
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Sources
2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities, Conditioning Exercise and Inactivity activity codes.
Herrmann, Willis, Ainsworth, et al. 2024 Adult Compendium of Physical Activities: A third update of the energy costs of human activities. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 2024.
