How much energy does it take to stand, walk or dance

Labarbapostiza

How much energy does it take to stand, walk or dance?

Formula?

Capt'n Midnight

it depends man/woman ? child / fully grown ? weight / how fast ?
is it warm or cold

The basal metabolic rate is how much energy you use doing nothing, like staying in bed or vegging out in front of the telly.



walking is an odd one. in addition to the basal metabolic rate energy you need to use all the time to stay alive then the energy you use for walking is proportional to the distance walked. If you walk faster you burn energy at twice the rate, but only for half as long.

of course walking faster raises your metabolic rate for a while afterwards you'll burn more energy after the walk


dancing - breaking dancing uses a tad more energy than the sort of formal dances done by the aristocracy back in the 17th century.

Jussnot Fairmann

E = mc^2
where E is energy, m is mass while standing, c is speed while walking, and ^2 is a 'square dance'

Labarbapostiza

Jussnot Fairmann wrote: »

E = mc^2
where E is energy, m is mass while standing, c is speed while walking, and ^2 is a 'square dance'

No, that formula is for if you were to completely disintegrate into massless particles.

I've though about the whole question a few times, it seems kind of simple but then when you think about it, it isn't. Maybe the minimum energy expended in standing up, walking, or dancing is a better question. Gauging how much is required or lost through metabolic processes is a little more difficult.

Jussnot Fairmann

sorry man, thought the post was in After Hours, ;/