Welcome to the Get Fit Guys, quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield.

I'm the Get Fit Guy and in today's episode, you're going to learn why running a mile burns

more calories than walking a mile.

In the episode, does running or walking burn more calories, which I produced a couple

years ago? You can actually access that just by going to quick and dirty tips.com. All of the

almost 300 get-fit guy episodes are over there. Anyways, I introduced a question in that episode

in which my exercise physiology professor was asking my class while I was studying

exercise physiology at University of Idaho, an important question. He said, if a person runs one mile,

do they burn more calories than if they had walked that one mile? Technically, the answer is no.

According to basic physics, if all you're moving is your body weight and you're

traveling by foot, you burn the same amount of calories getting from point A to point B, no matter how

fast you get there. However, the true answer is actually more complex, and in today's episode,

you're going to learn why running a mile burns more calories than walking a mile, and how you can

use this to burn more calories in

your own exercise, even if you're not a runner. Now, to understand why running a distance, any

distance burns more calories than walking that same distance, you need to know about something

called excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, also known as EPOC. When you run, you consume more oxygen than when you walk

because you're moving more muscles at greater contractiles and faster paces when you run.

And this means that after you finish running, your body has to pay back that oxygen debt

by consuming more calories for several minutes after you finish running.

That is a metabolic boosting effect that exercise scientists, like I mentioned, called EPOC or EPOC.

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