How Many Calories are Burned by Volleyball?
For volleyball, which is a typical intensity activity under the general description of volleyball activities, the average calories burned by a person weighing 190 pounds (86 Kg) in 30 minutes is 172 Calories. In one hour volleyball will burn 345 Calories.
Summary of Volleyball Information and Charts
To help you find the information you need, we first focus on volleyball which is the most common volleyball activity. This is followed by the activities with the highest burn rate which is playing beach volleyball in the sand, and the lowest which is general non-competitive volleyball with a 6 - 9 member team, giving the average calories burned per minute and per hour, along with food calorie equivalents and our new proprietary calories burned score© and calories burned rank©The calorie score gives an indication of the relative burn rate of the volleyball activities measured as a percentage score out of 100 for the different volleyball activities, where 100% is the maximum calorie burn which we estimate from running at a pace of 4 minutes per mile which is a world class speed for running for 30 mins.
The calorie rank is the rank of the volleyball activity compared with all other 800 activities in our database to give an indication of the percentage of activities which have a higher or lower calorie burn. A rank of 1 means it is the highest ranking activity in terms or calorie burn and a rank of 100 means it is the activity with the lowest carlorie burn compared with all other activities.
Effect of Intensity on the Calorie Calculator
Although the above is a typical example for volleyball, the calculator we use to determine the calories burnt depends on the intensity, duration and your body weight. At the bottom of the article we have a variety of different intensities which can be personalized based on your weight and the duration of the activities, using our free calculator.
Calorie Score and Calorie Rank for Volleyball
At dietandfitnesstoday we have a new proprietary concept of a Calories Burned Score© and Calories Burned Rank©.
Calories Burned in 30 Minutes for a Typical volleyball Activity
As we have previously mentioned Volleyball is a moderate and typical level of intensity for volleyball and can be used as a general representative approximate measure for calories burnt by volleyball. For this activity in 30 minutes an average man weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) burns 172 Calories, while an average woman weighing 163 pounds (74 kg), in 30 minutes burns 148 Calories.
Calories Per Minute
The calories burned per minute for Volleyball is 6 Calories per minute, for a typical man and for a typical female is 5 Calories per minute.
Calories Per Hour
The calories lost in one hour is 345 calories for a typical man, and 296 calories in one hour for a typical woman.
How to Burn 100 Calories
To burn 100 calories for a typical male would require 17 minutes of the activity volleyball and to burn 100 calories with the same volleyball activity for a typical female would take 20 minutes.
Score and Rank
Volleyball has a Calorie Burned Score© of 14.70 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 14.70 % of the highest realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calorie Burned Rank© of 77.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 77.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 421.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than volleyball
Equivalent Activities
The following activities burn the same number of calories as Volleyball -
- automobile body work
- bakery, general, moderate effort
- bicycling, <10 mph, leisure, to work or for pleasure (Taylor Code 115)
- canoeing, on camping trip
- carpentry, home remodeling tasks, moderate effort
Comparison with Inactivity
30 mins of inactivity for example just sitting and watching television burns 43 calories for a typical man and 37 calories for a typical woman. Which means Volleyball burns 4.3 times more calories than the equivalent time of inactivity for an average man and 4.0 times more calories for an average female.
Food Calorie Equivalents
This level of 172 calories burnt by an average man volleyball is equivalent to 0.3 Big Macs, 0.6 snickers bar, 1.4 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 0.6 cheeseburgers, 0.6 slices of pizza or 0.4 large blueberry muffins.
For an average female burning 148 calories is equivalent to 0.3 Big Macs, 0.5 snickers bar, 1.2 Starbucks Grande Skinny Lattes, 0.5 cheeseburgers, 0.5 slices of pizza or 0.4 large blueberry muffins.
Weight Loss from Volleyball
To answer the question how many pounds will I lose from the activity volleyball? Taking this example of volleyball in 30 minutes, the weight loss for a typical man is a minimum of 0.02 pounds, and a typical woman would lose 0.02 pounds.
Based on 4 sessions per week of volleyball for a duration of 30 minutes per session, the approximate time taken to lose one pound is 13 weeks for a man and 13 weeks for a woman, assuming no other changes in lifestyle or eating habits.
The same 4 sessions per week of volleyball for a duration of 30 minutes per session, would lose 1kg in 5 weeks for a man and 5 weeks for a woman.
Volleyball Activity with the Highest Calorie Burn
The highest number of calories burned for an average person is achieved by playing beach volleyball in the sand. For this activity in 30 minutes an average man burns 345 Calories, while an average woman in 30 minutes burns 296 Calories.
This activity of playing beach volleyball in the sand has a Calories Burned Score© of 32.70 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 32.70 % of the maximum realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calories Burned Rank© of 49.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 49.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 117.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than playing beach volleyball in the sand
Volleyball Activity with the Lowest Calorie Burn
The volleyball activity with the lowest calories burnt is general non-competitive volleyball with a 6 - 9 member team, which for an average man in 30 minutes burns 129 Calories, and for an average woman burns 111 Calories.
This activity of general non-competitive volleyball with a 6 - 9 member team has a Calories Burned Score© of 10.20 out of 100 which means it gives a calorie burn of 10.20 % of the maximum realistic calorie burn possible. This activity has a Calories Burned Rank© of 85.00 out of 100 ie it is in the top 85.00 % of activities in terms of calorie burn. There are in fact 568.00 activities that have a higher calorie burn than general non-competitive volleyball with a 6 - 9 member team
Average Calories Burned by Volleyball
Based on the the list of 5 volleyball activities, shown below, the average calories burned for an average male, weighing 190 pounds (86 kg) is 207 Calories for 30 minutes of volleyball. The average burnt for an average female, weighing 163 pounds (74 kg) is 177 Calories for 30 minutes of volleyball.
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| Calories Burned in 30 minutes of volleyball for Average Male (M) and Female (F) (click to personalise). | |
| playing beach volleyball in the sand - calories Male=345 kcal, Female=296 kcal. | |
| volleyball, competitive, in gymnasium - calories Male=259 kcal, Female=222 kcal. | |
| volleyball - calories Male=172 kcal, Female=148 kcal. | |
| general non-competitive volleyball with a 6 - 9 member team - calories Male=129 kcal, Female=111 kcal. | |
| water volleyball - calories Male=129 kcal, Female=111 kcal. | |
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