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What the Volleyball Calorie Calculator does
Volleyball Calorie Calculator: calculates Calories Burned, Burn Rate (kcal/hour) and MET Used from Your Weight, Duration and Intensity (MET). Example: your weight 70 kg, duration 30 minutes and intensity (MET) 6 gives calories burned 210.
Give the Volleyball Calorie Calculator your Your Weight, Duration and Intensity (MET) and it works out Calories Burned, Burn Rate (kcal/hour) and MET Used. Values update as you type, so comparing options is a matter of editing one field.
Typical users are readers checking a number from a clinic. Knowing how a figure is derived makes it much easier to interpret sensibly.
The calculation is local, so no health information ever reaches a server.
The field table, the method and a worked example are documented after the tool for anyone who wants to check the working.
What do the Volleyball Calorie Calculator fields mean?
The Volleyball Calorie Calculator uses 3 inputs. Nothing is blank on load, so you can see the shape of the answer before supplying your own figures.
| Field | What to enter | Default |
|---|---|---|
| Your Weight | measured in kg; accepts 30 to 200 | 70 |
| Duration | measured in minutes; accepts 1 to 480 | 30 |
| Intensity (MET) | accepts 1 to 20 | 6 |
How does the Volleyball Calorie Calculator work?
Each output is derived from the inputs above in a single pass; there is no hidden state carried between runs, so the same inputs always give the same calculation.
Inputs are validated before anything is computed, so a bad entry is reported rather than quietly producing a wrong answer.
Worked example
These are the values the Volleyball Calorie Calculator loads by default, and the result it produces from them. These are the exact values loaded when the page opens, and the answer they produce.
| Your Weight | 70 kg |
|---|---|
| Duration | 30 minutes |
| Intensity (MET) | 6 |
| Calories Burned | 210 |
|---|---|
| Burn Rate (kcal/hour) | 420 |
| MET Used | 6.0 |
| Summary | About 210 kcal burned in 30 min of Volleyball. |
MET values for volleyball
Beach volleyball at MET 8 costs substantially more than the indoor game, because moving on sand is far less efficient and teams are usually smaller.
| Volleyball | MET | 30 min at 70 kg |
|---|---|---|
| Casual, non-competitive | 3.0 | 110 kcal |
| Competitive, indoor | 6.0 | 221 kcal |
| Beach volleyball | 8.0 | 294 kcal |
MET values are from the 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities (Ainsworth et al., Med Sci Sports Exerc 43(8):1575-81). One MET is the energy cost of sitting quietly, roughly 3.5 ml of oxygen per kilogram per minute.
What changes the number
- Sand raises the cost of every movement by roughly 1.5 to 2 times compared with a hard court.
- Two-a-side beach play means each player covers much more ground than in a six-a-side indoor game.
- Casual indoor volleyball is genuinely low-intensity. MET 3 is around the level of light housework.
These figures are population averages. Individual variation of 10–20% is normal, and the compendium itself is drawn from studies with modest sample sizes. Use the result to compare activities against each other, which it does well, rather than as an exact measure of what you personally burned.
How to use it
- Set Your Weight in kg (30 to 200).
- Put Duration in minutes (1 to 480).
- Key in Intensity (MET) (1 to 20).
- Results update continuously rather than on submit.
- Check Calories Burned, Burn Rate (kcal/hour), MET Used and Summary on the right.
- Print gives a tidy version without the navigation, which is handy for attaching to a file.
What this tool does not do
- These formulas come from population averages and cannot account for your medical history.
- This is a screening estimate, not a diagnosis.
- Comparisons across tools can differ where each uses a slightly different definition.
- The tool trusts your numbers completely, so a mis-keyed digit propagates straight through.
Frequently asked questions
Enter Your Weight in kg and Duration in minutes. Every input names its unit, and every output does too, which removes the usual source of error.
Your Weight accepts 30 to 200 kg. Go outside it and you get an error against that specific field instead of a misleading number.
With the values loaded when the page opens, calories burned comes out as 210. Overwrite any of the starting values and the result follows.
No. There is no account, no session and no storage. The values exist only while the tab is open.
No payment and no login. Advertising covers the running costs.
The formula is applied correctly, but it was derived from study populations that may not resemble you in age, build, ancestry or training history. That gap, not the arithmetic, is where the uncertainty lives.