Technical jargon and methods aside, the authors calculated the “total volume of the muscles used to bend the index finger to be 10.8 cubic centimeters with a total weight of 11.7 grams.”
“On average, 16.7 micromoles of ATP (Adenosine triphosphate) are consumed in moving one gram of muscle for one second. So, the total amount of ATP burned to move 11.7 grams of muscle in the index finger is approximately 195 micromoles (11.7g×16.7μ mol/g). There are 7.3 calories in one mole of ATP energy, so the number of calories burned in clicking the mouse equals about 1.42 (7.3/1000) X 195).”
An annotation adds “the calculation assumes the muscle contracted completely, so the actual amount of calories used is a little less.”
There you have it, a little less than 1.42 calories per click. It’s doubtful we’ll see any mouse click exercise videos coming out any time soon, however, you may want to throw in a few extra clicks every now and then for a little peace of mind. Oh, and maybe give up some of those late night snack binges as well.
If that were true all you'd need to do to lose massive weight is click a mouse button a few thousand times a day which is really fucking easy.
Samuel Lee
>be fps player >be FAMAS tapfire pro >become ripped af OPLIGIZE
Ayden Sanchez
I don't believe this shit at all. You click thousands of times over the course of a day and yet 90% of the people I know who use computers all day long are fat as fuck. No way that's accurate.
Asher Young
OP is right, the thing is that what we usually call calories are in fact kilocalories, 1000x a single calorie.
Ayden King
>getting ripped by losing calories
loooool ... its the other way around my dude!!
Angel Clark
This.
Jordan Jenkins
So how many calories does ricing Linux burn?
Isaac Adams
>be user >eat my 2500 calories worth of doritos and mtn dew. >click the moose 1761 times >lose weight
Yeah user sure makes sense :^)
Michael Torres
Dude my finger is gonnna be soooo ripped duuude!
Evan Adams
>clicking the mouse... yeah that's totally why my right hand is totally ripped haha