1,000 Calorie Challenge!

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  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    kory1969 wrote: »
    How do you log strength training on MFP??

    It's in the database as exactly that - Strength Training.

    It's not nearly the calorie burn as say cardio would provide, but that is true.
  • rrowdiness
    rrowdiness Posts: 119 Member
    edited April 2015
    ThickMcRunFast wrote: »
    3582 calories today....for a 50km race with 4500 ft of elevation gain.

    So yeah, that whole '628 for 28 minutes on the stair climber' is totally in the same ballpark.

    [numbers crunching]

    yeah, at the stair climber burn that's 2:36. Which is what, halfway in the 50km?

    CASE CLOSED FOLKS, hang up your running shoes, back onto the stairmaster, it's twice as hard efficient as running up hills...with an HRM....and a GPS...on a timed course.
  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    Closing out the week. 8580. I feel pretty gassed. But next week is another week and I am sure I'll cross 8000 again.
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    Looking back over the week...

    1800 burned running
    3000 burned cycling

    Didn't quite make it on 16km running and 65km cycling.
  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    I failed my long run today. Only made it 12 miles of the planned 15. I was supposed to be running at 7:40ish pace but my legs weren't having anything of the sort today and I barely could squeeze out 8:30s. I gave up when I looped back to my car and wasn't even hitting 9:30.
  • ThickMcRunFast
    ThickMcRunFast Posts: 22,511 Member
    I am succeeding in sitting on my couch. Maybe I will take a slow recovery jog/walk later. Only made it about 5000 cals burned for the week. Such a failure.
  • ashleeadodd
    ashleeadodd Posts: 4 Member
    I think the bottom line here is that she would like support for her challenge.

    She never said that it was a "burn 1000 calories in an hour challenge", or anthing like that.

    Support her, or move on to another thread.

    ---I hope you hit 1000 each day!---
  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    ashleejunker wrote: »
    I think the bottom line here is that she would like support for her challenge.

    She never said that it was a "burn 1000 calories in an hour challenge", or anthing like that.

    Support her, or move on to another thread.

    ---I hope you hit 1000 each day!---

    so you haven't read the 14 pages I assume?
  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    8580 calories for the week broke down as such:


    7150 yards in the pool (2 hrs total)
    129 miles on the bike (7 hrs)
    30 miles running (4 hrs)

    Also an hour of strength training (20 minutes of core work 3 times), and an hour of yoga which didn't I didn't figure into the calorie count. Put me just over 15hrs.
  • Pspetal
    Pspetal Posts: 426 Member
    I'm 150 lbs and about 25 lbs overweight. I burn up to 1000 calories or more easily in about 2 hours of very strenuous session of HIIT+strength training, but there's no way I would be able to do it everyday. I need a break of one or two days afterwards. Good luck with your 1000 per day burn challenge OP. You'll need it!
  • mjdubin5
    mjdubin5 Posts: 7 Member
    How do I join this group and this challenge
  • Iron_Feline
    Iron_Feline Posts: 10,750 Member
    mjdubin5 wrote: »
    How do I join this group and this challenge

    I'd read the thread for starters.
  • mjdubin5
    mjdubin5 Posts: 7 Member
    How do I join this group and this challenge
  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
    In and done.

    Burned 1000 + calories 5 days last week 2 rest days 165 miles 11hours 21 minutes 7500 calories

    Monday 27.8 miles 1:52 14.8mph 2500' elevation gain 1300 cals
    Tuesday 35.8 miles 2:29 14.4mph 2700 elevation gain 1500 cals
    Wed 22.2 miles 1:28 15.2 mph 2200 elevation gain 1059 cals
    Thurs ....rest day
    Friday 40.1 miles 2:49 14.3mph 3500 elevation gain 1850 cal
    Sat ...rest day
    Sunday 40 miles 2:44 14.7mph 3500 elevation gain 1700 cals
  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    edited April 2015
    Well since it got dredged back up...

    This week's summary:
    8000 yards in the pool in 2:15 total time
    133 miles on the bike in 7:30
    35.2 miles running in 4:25

    14:50 total time and 9130 calories (1304/day)

    1 rest day in the week so if you take that out I was averaging 1520/day in 6 days.

    I can't eat enough to keep up with this really, I don't want to lose any weight but there isn't much I can do about it at this stage.
  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
    @glevinso nice work !
    Hoping for more sun next week so my solar system finally gets my pool up to temp and I can start swimming.( Ya I am a wimp I like my pool at 80*)
    Last week was brutal with the wind here, seemed like we had a head wind both ways every day. Knocked 2mph off my averages.
    I hear Ya on trying to eat all those calories back, I fall asleep before I finish my post ride meal all the time. LOL
  • glevinso
    glevinso Posts: 1,895 Member
    After yesterday's 70 mile ride and 2.6 mile transition run, I went straight into the local brewery I parked at (everyone starts big rides at the local brewery right?) I went inside, ordered a beer and a pizza, and just stared at it. Had to force myself to eat a pizza. (I drank all the beer though...)

    After that level of effort, eating just doesn't seem appealing even though I know I need to refuel.
  • Camo_xxx
    Camo_xxx Posts: 1,082 Member
    I need to start eating on a bar stool instead on my recliner, maybe I could manage to stay awake and finish eating. LOL
    Ya, we have 2 micro breweries located out in the country that are "almost back home" that last little stretch home gets a bit wobbly occasionally.
    Good thing I can take bike paths mostly home from there. We are definitely spoiled though, endless miles of hills, mountains, rollers or flats right out of my front door and very little traffic. It's cycling paradise. Northern California in the Sierra Nevada foothills.....shhhh don't tell anybody though. We like our privacy.
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    edited April 2015
    Saturday, April 11 - 1845 calories (2:02:48 on the singlespeed hot laps stateside)
    Sunday, April 12 - BUST (Air France flight was delayed making me 3 1/2 hours late to Paris. By the time I caught another flight and got back to Germany, it was too dark to ride.)
    Monday, April 13 - 1289 calories (2:17:22 easy Zone 1/2 road bike ride)
    Tuesday, April 14 - 1500 calories (2:05:41 Zone 2 road bike ride - hit 1000 calories at the 1:26 point)
    Wednesday, April 15 - 1299 calories (2:38:22 Zone 1 road bike leisurely ride)
    Thursday, April 16 - 1029 calories (1:17:20 4 x 8 Zone 4 Intervals)
    Friday, April 17 - 1003 calories (made it by the skinny today - 95 minutes walking/30 minutes cycling/60 minutes weight lifting)
    Saturday, April 18 - 1383 calories (2:25:52)

    I had all good intentions of ending the 7 consecutive days on Sunday, April 19th with a nice two hour ride. However, I had a flight to catch and just couldn't get up early to try and squeeze in a ride, pack, and get to the airport. So FAIL on my part for 7 consecutive days of burning 1000. Rats!!! Both the previous Sunday, and the 19th duped me with flights so I couldn't knock out 7 consecutive days.

    Regardless, I followed up with a 10 day trip to Vienna, Krakow, and Berlin. Pretty sure I easily ate plenty of calories back on that fun trip, but I also walked a lot each day. I think my body enjoyed the "rest" week from endurance training. I was back on the bike again in Berlin the past two days (a townie rental) to pedal out the cobwebs that were forming.

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