Steps and calories per hour.

What the columns use

Steps per hour are the meters the belt travels in an hour, divided by stride length. On this site that length is one footfall to the next. Pedometer manuals often call it stride length. If you measured same foot to same foot, divide by two. Incline does not change the step count here. A steeper belt can shorten your step, and this table does not know that.

The starter length, 70 cm, is about 0.42 times 167 cm. 0.42 is the height fraction from Barreira, Rowe, and Kang (2010). A measured length is better. The walking pad steps calculator does one session from speed and minutes.

Calories on an incline use the ACSM walking equation: VO2 in ml/kg/min = 0.1×S + 1.8×S×G + 3.5. S is speed in meters per minute. G is the incline as a fraction, so 5% is 0.05. The column subtracts the 3.5 rest term, then converts with body weight and the same 200 ml of oxygen per kilocalorie used on the session calculator. At 0% incline this is not the Ludlow and Weyand level-walking equation. The two pages will not match on flat ground.

Source for the height fraction: Barreira, Rowe, and Kang, International Journal of Exercise Science, 2010. Walking equation: American College of Sports Medicine, ACSM's Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription.

General information, not medical advice.