1.2 grams of fat?

[pne]

I just climbed the steps to my office on the 10th floor.

Took me about three minutes and I was breathing pretty heavily. Plugged some numbers into Wolfram Alpha and... the energy I expended lifting my body mass up ten storeys against earth's gravitational attraction is equivalent to... 10 kilocalories or "~~ 1.2 × metabolic energy of one gram of fat (~~ 38000 J )"??

...certainly felt like more....

Comments

[schnurble]

Wow, this is really not much. And climbing stairs is supposed to be one of the exercises that burn energy fastest...

[pne]

I was hoping I had used the wrong formula or something, because I was really expecting a bit more!

[pseudomonas]

You'll have been working at a lot less than 100% efficiency.

[schnurble]

According to this link: http://www.novafeel.de/fitness/kalorienverbrauch.htm it is more indeed. I supose you burn more energy because the body is not using everything for the climbing, but also produces warmth.