Enter your body weight and number of roundhouse kicks to calculate your calories burned doing roundhouse kicks. At a steady training pace, 100 roundhouse kicks burn about 50 Calories at 120 lb, 67 Calories at 160 lb, and 84 Calories at 200 lb.
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Roundhouse Kick Calories Formula
The basic tab uses kick count. Use the Advanced tab when you track rounds by time instead of reps.
Calories = BW * Kicks * F
- BW = body weight
- Kicks = total roundhouse kicks
- F = 0.0042 when body weight is in pounds, or 0.0093 when body weight is in kilograms
Calories = BW * Minutes * P
- Minutes = total practice time
- P = 0.048 per lb or 0.105 per kg for light drill pace
- P = 0.064 per lb or 0.140 per kg for a training pace
- P = 0.079 per lb or 0.175 per kg for hard rounds
Calories per 100 Roundhouse Kicks
These values use the basic kick-count formula at a steady training pace.
| Body Weight | Calories per 100 Kicks |
|---|---|
| 120 lb | 50 |
| 140 lb | 59 |
| 160 lb | 67 |
| 180 lb | 76 |
| 200 lb | 84 |
| 220 lb | 92 |
In the Advanced tab at a training pace, each minute burns about 8 Calories at 120 lb, 10 Calories at 160 lb, and 13 Calories at 200 lb.
What is a Roundhouse Kick?
A roundhouse kick is a rotational striking technique driven by a knee lift, hip turn, and fast extension of the leg. It is common in taekwondo, karate, kickboxing, and MMA, and high-rep drilling turns it into a lower-body and core conditioning movement.
What Changes the Burn?
- Pad and heavy bag work usually costs more energy than air reps.
- Full chamber, hip rotation, and fast retraction raise the work done per kick.
- Alternating legs and adding footwork increases total movement.
- Continuous rounds burn more than stop-start single-rep practice.
- Body-height and head-height kicks usually use more energy than low kicks.
Example
A 160 lb athlete throwing 150 roundhouse kicks would burn: 160 × 150 × 0.0042 = 100.8, or about 101 Calories.
