Ladies. How long does it take you to burn 200 calories?

angellll12

In 20 mins I burn 200 calories, and that's me sweating my *kitten* off.
I can't take how long it takes and me putting in so much effort.

If I add those waist belts while I do cadio, will that help burn calories faster?

Asher_Ethan

First, why do you want to loose that many calories that fast? How did you calculate that it took you 20 minutes to burn those 200 calories?

Today it took me 30 minutes to burn 270 calories via my HRM to walk/run 2.22 mile while carrying my lazy child.

CyeRyn

On the elliptical at the fitness center I go to in 30min I can burn 260cal but it all depends on me maintaining a certain speed and tension setting. I dont trust the burn to be accurate either since the settings are general.

leahraskie

20 minutes for 200 calories is pretty decent it depends on what you're doing and how accurate you'd consider the machine you're using. It'd probably take me 25 minutes, but I'm not working especially hard, but I use high incline.

angellll12

Asher_Ethan wrote: »

First, why do you want to loose that many calories that fast? How did you calculate that it took you 20 minutes to burn those 200 calories?

Today it took me 30 minutes to burn 270 calories via my HRM to walk/run 2.22 mile while carrying my lazy child.

angellll12

angellll12 wrote: »

Asher_Ethan wrote: »

First, why do you want to loose that many calories that fast? How did you calculate that it took you 20 minutes to burn those 200 calories?

Today it took me 30 minutes to burn 270 calories via my HRM to walk/run 2.22 mile while carrying my lazy child.

That's fast? The way I'm sweating I think I should reach higher calorie burn. My elliptical tells me how much calories I burn

Hornsby

Sweat isn't an indicator of calorie burn.

rachsoderberg

Not sure how long it takes me to burn that because it probably varies greatly by what I do, but you should be looking at about 30mins a day of moderate exercise either way. I do know I burn about 200 cals on an 8min/mi pace run around 20mins.

NickGibson188

The harder you work the more calories you burn. its easy putting food in your mouth a lot harder to burn it off. Remember if it was easy everyone would be walking round looking like a fitness model :-) keep up your great work and you will see great results

lindsayh87

NickGibson188 wrote: »

Remember if it was easy everyone would be walking round looking like a fitness model :-)

^^^ that.

atypicalsmith

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That's fast? The way I'm sweating I think I should reach higher calorie burn. My elliptical tells me how much calories I burn
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Do you program in your weight, height, age, and gender into your elliptical before you start? If not, it is NOT telling you how many calories you burn. A 300 lb. 15 year old male is going to burn more than an 87 lb. 90 year old woman. Even if they are going the same speed with the same settings for the same amount of time. Without the above information, it has absolutely no idea how many calories you are burning and uses a generic model instead.

angellll12

atypicalsmith wrote: »

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That's fast? The way I'm sweating I think I should reach higher calorie burn. My elliptical tells me how much calories I burn
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Do you program in your weight, height, age, and gender into your elliptical before you start? If not, it is NOT telling you how many calories you burn. A 300 lb. 15 year old male is going to burn more than an 87 lb. 90 year old woman. Even if they are going the same speed with the same settings for the same amount of time. Without the above information, it has absolutely no idea how many calories you are burning and uses a generic model instead.
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Good point no I don't program anything on my elliptical. I'm 145 and 5'2 does that seem about right, the calories I'm burning ?

aam117

i get a burn between 250 - 270 on a 5k row on my rowing machine (depending on my actual time and intensity). usually that means anywhere from 24 - 26 minutes. there is an algorithm programmed in that gives a calorie burn amount and then a calculator on their website to adjust for weight, etc. i still generally round down slightly just to be safe.

LKArgh

It depends on what you are doing, and how much you weight. Unless you are very overweight and you are going at a really high intensity, you are probably not burning anything close to that many calories. To give you an example, my estimation as healthy weight, average height woman for running a 5k, which is for me around 40 minutes during training, is around 300 calories. If you are hoping to burn lots of calories and are disappointed by the 200, unless you are very obese, then this is not happening in 20 minutes. If the goal is to lose weight, it is easier to do it by restricting calories you eat, than trying to eat a lot and then burn it through exercise, unless your lifestyle allows you to spend hours training every day.

atypicalsmith

Also, even if you are programming in all of your info, how do you know if the calories it says you are burning are including or are in addition to the calories you would have burned anyway in that same time frame? Let's say one burns 70 calories a minute just staying alive: breathing, keeping your heart beating and your blood circulating, your cells replaced, etc. Now, if you are on a treadmill and plug in all your numbers, and it says you burned 150 calories in 30 minutes, does this include or exclude the 35 calories you would have burned anyway had you been sleeping instead?

That said, I love keeping track of calories burned and when I exercise, I feel a lot better and eat less junk. Also, no matter what, you will always burn more calories by exercising than by not. Also, it helps with your overall metabolism.

heybales

atypicalsmith wrote: »

Also, even if you are programming in all of your info, how do you know if the calories it says you are burning are including or are in addition to the calories you would have burned anyway in that same time frame? Let's say one burns 70 calories a minute just staying alive: breathing, keeping your heart beating and your blood circulating, your cells replaced, etc. Now, if you are on a treadmill and plug in all your numbers, and it says you burned 150 calories in 30 minutes, does this include or exclude the 35 calories you would have burned anyway had you been sleeping instead?

That said, I love keeping track of calories burned and when I exercise, I feel a lot better and eat less junk. Also, no matter what, you will always burn more calories by exercising than by not. Also, it helps with your overall metabolism.

I've never seen a database entry, HRM, machine, or anything else remove calories that would have been burned otherwise.
Because how does it know what you would have been doing otherwise?
Sleeping?
Or mowing the lawn, running after kids, walking the dog, ect.
It's estimating what you burned in those minutes at that level of exercise - which includes everything.

Sadly elliptical's have no good studies for formula for calorie burn like treadmills have, too many variables and personal ways of doing it.
The best just measure your wattage output, and assume you are the average 20-23% efficient turning calories into movement. Weight is all that matters then.

Actually, MFP already has an estimate of what it expects you to burn every minute of the day - In your goals - calories burned from daily activity.
Divide by 1440 - that's your already accounted for calorie burn per minute that your eating goal is based on.

That's what you should be subtracting from whatever burn you do in addition to normal living that MFP is already estimating.

heybales

10 cal/min isn't that bad.

As you get more fit, you can do more than that - easily.

atypicalsmith

heybales wrote: »

10 cal/min isn't that bad.

As you get more fit, you can do more than that - easily.

Exactly!

FitPhillygirl

Depending on what I'm doing it usually takes about 30 minutes.

Timorous_Beastie

200 calories can take me anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour, depending on what I'm doing.

drosebud

I'm 5'4" and around 150lb. I burn around 10 cals/min on a run outside, less on an inside elliptical trainer. I use a HRM with my weight plumbed in. The gym machines over-estimate by around 20% for me.

Velum_cado

I burn about 10 calories a minute at my maximum, so 20 minutes for 200 calories. Depending on what I'm doing, it's probably more likely to take me around 25 minutes +.

amusedmonkey

In good incline walking session it takes me about 15 minutes to burn 200 calories gross (about 180 net).

But there is a caveat: I'm obese so I burn more.

999tigger

the speed at which you burn depends in your weight, intensity and duration.

The fastest I can burn would be 14-16 minutes on the rower, but it would take me that amount of time to recover.

Its a good reminder on how much work it takes to burn calories and not eating to excess in the first place is much easier.

Opps not a lady. 500-600 calories is good imo.

tiffanybrooks530

when im using the gym machines when i put my hands on the heart rate sensor i usually burn 73 calories per 10 min with a heart rate around 155-160bpm which is 85% for my age range. I also can feel my heart beating really fast and im usually winded.

So even when im home working out or biking, hiking i can tell by touching my chest and with heavy breathing where im at. I hope this helps.
I try to do hiit which focuses on hitting your high rate for short time, not really counting min until you hit a calorie point but this still helps me est my heart rate without a monitor

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jenn-zerling/4-high-intensity-interval_1_b_4752827.html

tiffanybrooks530

http://www.bodybuilding.com/teen/justin6.htm

tiffanybrooks530

http://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/PhysicalActivity/FitnessBasics/Target-Heart-Rates_UCM_434341_Article.jsp

amwood1528

The more movement you do while exercising the more calories you burn. The more intense you're work out is the more calories you burn. I take a class called "body attack" at my local gym, it's an hour long class but we burn 600-800 calories per class. We do a variety of movements. For example, blurpies, squats, lunges etc. I suggest you try different exercise and work out longer. If, you do not have the time, I would try something like t25.

Kymmu

around an hour of very brisk walking.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

The smaller you are the harder it is to burn significant calories. I'm 5'4", 123ish lbs and I'm lucky to get 300 calories per hour for really intense exercise.

kristinegift

100 per 10 minutes is pretty reasonable. I burn ~100 per mile running or per 10 minutes on the stationary bike. You can't really rush the burn. Adding weight might let you burn 1-2 more calories per 10 minutes but that's it.