Snow Shoveling Calories Burned Calculator

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Your current body weight. Heavier people burn more calories for the same effort.
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Choose the activity that best matches what you did. Vigorous shoveling means lifting and tossing wet, heavy snow quickly.
Total time spent on the activity, in minutes.
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Calories burnedModerate session
227kcal

Total kilocalories burned during your session

Calories per minute7.6kcal/min
Calories per hour454kcal/hr
MET value5.3
Total calories burned227
Calories per hour454

You burned roughly 227 kcal in 30 minutes of moderate hand shoveling.

  • At 454 kcal/hr, moderate hand shoveling ranks above a typical 30-minute jog in calorie intensity.
  • Sessions of 20 minutes or more count toward the CDC recommendation of 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity per week.
  • Cold temperatures make your body work harder to stay warm, so actual calorie burn may be slightly higher than this estimate on very cold days.
  • Hand shoveling is a full-body effort: shoulders, back, legs, and core all engage, which is why the calorie burn is comparable to vigorous cycling.

Next stepFor more calorie burn, switch to vigorous hand shoveling or add a second pass to clear wet snow completely.

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