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Better Than the Elevator. The website HealthStatus notes a person who weighs 160 pounds burns about nine calories during a minute of walking up a set of stairs. During the same activity, a 210-pound person burns about 12 calories. If climbing a flight of stairs takes you about 30 seconds, expect to burn half the above calories. While this calorie burn might seem low, standing in the elevator for a minute burns about one and two calories, respectively, for the two people.
Employees Take Stairs to Burn Calories. When it comes to calories burned walking and climbing stairs, there is an advantage to weighing more. According to MyFitness Pal, a person who weighs 200 lbs burns almost twice the calories walking or climbing stairs as a person who weighs 100 lbs. Combine added weight with speed and you get even more of a calorie boost. The faster you walk the more calories you burn in the same period of time. A person who walks at a pace of 3 mph will burn more then double the calories if they speed up to 5 mph.