This map shows how many calories you would burn off by walking between stations on the London Underground. (Picture: Treated.com)

Getting off the Tube one stop early will help you burn off that 10am chocolate digestive and we can prove it.

GP Wayne Osborne has put together a tube map which shows how many calories the average person burns off walking between tube stations.

And interestingly he reckons that walking in central London will not just help you get fit but will also get you there quicker because you don’t have to queue up or wait for a train.

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At least if you walk you avoid the sweatbox that is the tube in summer. (Picture: EPA/ANDY RAIN)

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Dr Osborne found Inner city tube stops are an average of two minutes apart but around 15 minutes walking distance.

Most people burn just short of four calories a minute walking- so walking 10-15 minutes will burn around 40-60 calories.

If you decide to step it up a gear and jog you will burn off between 10 and 12 calories per minute.

But let’s face it- you probably won’t be the most popular person at the office if you turn up lathered in sweat and stinking of BO.

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Cyclists burn about seven calories a minute.

Doctor Osborne who produced the research with Treated.com, said: ‘In the outer regions of the city, the tube makes a big difference to travel times.

How many calories you would burn off walking between stations on London Underground. (Picture: Metro graphics/Steve Legere)

‘But it’s when you get deeper into the centre that the difference between getting the tube and walking or jogging, in terms of time, starts to significantly narrow.

‘If you want an economical way to get in shape, and lower your risk of serious illness, then hopping off the tube one or two stops early and walking the rest of the way is a great way to keep fit and burn off some extra calories.

‘And it isn’t going to bite that much more into your day than getting the tube normally would.’

So the next time there is a tube strike (which lets face it there will be) you can be smug knowing you are already burning off that glass of vino you have waiting at home.

From White City to Liverpool Street on the Central line, there isn’t a single leg which takes more than 15 minutes to walk, or eight minutes to jog.

The same applies to the Bakerloo line from Queen’s Park down to Lambeth North, and from Aldgate to Sloane Square on the Circle and District Lines.

The Circle line had on average the shortest distance between stops, with 12 walking minutes for each of its 34 stops.