How Many Calories Are You Burning??
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Kelley0519
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Hello all -
About how many calories are you burning on a daily basis? I work out once sometimes twice a day... I'm burning anywhere from 400-1000 calories per day. Also, how many calories burned a day is too many? That may seem like a silly question lol I want to up my calories burned per day but don't want to overdo it.
Thanks!
About how many calories are you burning on a daily basis? I work out once sometimes twice a day... I'm burning anywhere from 400-1000 calories per day. Also, how many calories burned a day is too many? That may seem like a silly question lol I want to up my calories burned per day but don't want to overdo it.
Thanks!
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In a lifting session + cardio (45 minutes lifting, plus 20-ish minutes cardio) i'd say about 200? Difficult to tell. I know in the cardio i aim to burn atleast a hundred and then i back off.
I maintain around 1800 calories a day based on my non-exercise activity.
How are you tracking your calories burned? What activity are you doing to burn all these 400-1000 calories? What do you burn when you don't work out? What is your calorie intake like?0 -
rainbowbow wrote: »In a lifting session + cardio (45 minutes lifting, plus 20-ish minutes cardio) i'd say about 200? Difficult to tell. I know in the cardio i aim to burn atleast a hundred and then i back off.
I maintain around 1800 calories a day based on my non-exercise activity.
How are you tracking your calories burned? What activity are you doing to burn all these 400-1000 calories? What do you burn when you don't work out? What is your calorie intake like?
I track my calories burned by the exercise machine....for example, I would enter my weight and at the end, if the treadmill, elliptical, stair climber, ARC machine says I burned 525 calories....I would only enter 500 calories burned into MFP. I don't hand on to the sidings on the treadmill, I mostly run or walk on an incline. I can burned and easy 500 calories if I run 20 mins....including my warm up and cool down time. I do sets of light weight lifting, but I don't log these exercises, mostly because I wouldn't know what an accurate number. I normally eat around 1250-1350 calories per day if I got to the gym once a day. When I go twice, I try to eat around 1450 calories. I'm still learning so if I'm doing anything wrong, feel free to correct me. Thanks!0 -
Too many calories burned per day is entirely subjective, and depends on your current level of fitness.
If you're working out so hard, and so long that you actually are in danger of injuring yourself, that's too many. Although, there are plenty of athletes who burn thousands of calories per day, and have to eat 5000cals (or even more) per day just to maintain.0 -
Kelley0519 wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »In a lifting session + cardio (45 minutes lifting, plus 20-ish minutes cardio) i'd say about 200? Difficult to tell. I know in the cardio i aim to burn atleast a hundred and then i back off.
I maintain around 1800 calories a day based on my non-exercise activity.
How are you tracking your calories burned? What activity are you doing to burn all these 400-1000 calories? What do you burn when you don't work out? What is your calorie intake like?
I track my calories burned by the exercise machine....for example, I would enter my weight and at the end, if the treadmill, elliptical, stair climber, ARC machine says I burned 525 calories....I would only enter 500 calories burned into MFP. I don't hand on to the sidings on the treadmill, I mostly run or walk on an incline. I can burned and easy 500 calories if I run 20 mins....including my warm up and cool down time. I do sets of light weight lifting, but I don't log these exercises, mostly because I wouldn't know what an accurate number. I normally eat around 1250-1350 calories per day if I got to the gym once a day. When I go twice, I try to eat around 1450 calories. I'm still learning so if I'm doing anything wrong, feel free to correct me. Thanks!
Yeah, this doesn't sound accurate.
Don't ever trust the machines at the gym, or MFP's estimate. Unless you are incredibly obese, a more realistic burn is 600-ish per HOUR of intense exercise.
In any case, as long as you aren't eating these back it shouldn't matter too much.0 -
rainbowbow wrote: »Kelley0519 wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »In a lifting session + cardio (45 minutes lifting, plus 20-ish minutes cardio) i'd say about 200? Difficult to tell. I know in the cardio i aim to burn atleast a hundred and then i back off.
I maintain around 1800 calories a day based on my non-exercise activity.
How are you tracking your calories burned? What activity are you doing to burn all these 400-1000 calories? What do you burn when you don't work out? What is your calorie intake like?
I track my calories burned by the exercise machine....for example, I would enter my weight and at the end, if the treadmill, elliptical, stair climber, ARC machine says I burned 525 calories....I would only enter 500 calories burned into MFP. I don't hand on to the sidings on the treadmill, I mostly run or walk on an incline. I can burned and easy 500 calories if I run 20 mins....including my warm up and cool down time. I do sets of light weight lifting, but I don't log these exercises, mostly because I wouldn't know what an accurate number. I normally eat around 1250-1350 calories per day if I got to the gym once a day. When I go twice, I try to eat around 1450 calories. I'm still learning so if I'm doing anything wrong, feel free to correct me. Thanks!
Yeah, this doesn't sound accurate.
Don't ever trust the machines at the gym, or MFP's estimate. Unless you are incredibly obese, a more realistic burn is 600-ish per HOUR of intense exercise.
In any case, as long as you aren't eating these back it shouldn't matter too much.
X1000
To burn 500 calories running, you'd have to be 200lbs and run 3 miles in 20 minutes which is very fast. You'd be winning age groups at smaller races at that pace.
If you are over 200, the distance will drop a bit. At 250 you'd have to run 2.5 miles. That an 8 minute mile which is still a pretty good pace.0 -
peachyfuzzle wrote: »Too many calories burned per day is entirely subjective, and depends on your current level of fitness.
If you're working out so hard, and so long that you actually are in danger of injuring yourself, that's too many. Although, there are plenty of athletes who burn thousands of calories per day, and have to eat 5000cals (or even more) per day just to maintain.
Very helpful, thank you!0 -
rainbowbow wrote: »Kelley0519 wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »In a lifting session + cardio (45 minutes lifting, plus 20-ish minutes cardio) i'd say about 200? Difficult to tell. I know in the cardio i aim to burn atleast a hundred and then i back off.
I maintain around 1800 calories a day based on my non-exercise activity.
How are you tracking your calories burned? What activity are you doing to burn all these 400-1000 calories? What do you burn when you don't work out? What is your calorie intake like?
I track my calories burned by the exercise machine....for example, I would enter my weight and at the end, if the treadmill, elliptical, stair climber, ARC machine says I burned 525 calories....I would only enter 500 calories burned into MFP. I don't hand on to the sidings on the treadmill, I mostly run or walk on an incline. I can burned and easy 500 calories if I run 20 mins....including my warm up and cool down time. I do sets of light weight lifting, but I don't log these exercises, mostly because I wouldn't know what an accurate number. I normally eat around 1250-1350 calories per day if I got to the gym once a day. When I go twice, I try to eat around 1450 calories. I'm still learning so if I'm doing anything wrong, feel free to correct me. Thanks!
Yeah, this doesn't sound accurate.
Don't ever trust the machines at the gym, or MFP's estimate. Unless you are incredibly obese, a more realistic burn is 600-ish per HOUR of intense exercise.
In any case, as long as you aren't eating these back it shouldn't matter too much.
I don't trust the MFP calorie suggestion, because they're always over estimating. I manually enter my calories burned.0 -
For one thing, you should be really careful with burn estimates...because they are estimates and calculators and databases and machines, etc tend to exaggerate calorie burn...often substantially.
Secondly, while burning additional calories is a nice "gravy" benefit of exercise, it really isn't the purpose...it would behoove you to start looking at exercise and fitness for the sake of fitness and overall health and well being.
Thirdly, too many calories burned would be pretty subjective and would also be dependent on if you're eating properly to support whatever activity you're doing...if you're not eating at an appropriate level for that kind of exercise, you're putting yourself at greater risk of injury and recovery issues...not to mention you really impede your fitness by not properly feeding it. This kind of goes back to point two...the point of exercise isn't to just go out and burn a *kitten* ton of calories...if you're training like that, you also have to know and understand how to feed it while still managing weight loss goals...running steep deficits and then burning a *kitten* ton of additional calories on top of that is a recipe for your body taking a *kitten*.0 -
rainbowbow wrote: »Kelley0519 wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »In a lifting session + cardio (45 minutes lifting, plus 20-ish minutes cardio) i'd say about 200? Difficult to tell. I know in the cardio i aim to burn atleast a hundred and then i back off.
I maintain around 1800 calories a day based on my non-exercise activity.
How are you tracking your calories burned? What activity are you doing to burn all these 400-1000 calories? What do you burn when you don't work out? What is your calorie intake like?
I track my calories burned by the exercise machine....for example, I would enter my weight and at the end, if the treadmill, elliptical, stair climber, ARC machine says I burned 525 calories....I would only enter 500 calories burned into MFP. I don't hand on to the sidings on the treadmill, I mostly run or walk on an incline. I can burned and easy 500 calories if I run 20 mins....including my warm up and cool down time. I do sets of light weight lifting, but I don't log these exercises, mostly because I wouldn't know what an accurate number. I normally eat around 1250-1350 calories per day if I got to the gym once a day. When I go twice, I try to eat around 1450 calories. I'm still learning so if I'm doing anything wrong, feel free to correct me. Thanks!
Yeah, this doesn't sound accurate.
Don't ever trust the machines at the gym, or MFP's estimate. Unless you are incredibly obese, a more realistic burn is 600-ish per HOUR of intense exercise.
In any case, as long as you aren't eating these back it shouldn't matter too much.
One size does not fit all.
I can easily burn just about 1000 calories in 1 hour on my bike, averaging about 20 mph @ 170 lbs.
I can also burn about 1000 calories in 1 hour running, just not as easily. Takes about 9 to 9.5 miles. It's rare. And yes, I do go top 10 at local races. Or top 500 at huge local races
Running, 0.63 KCal/mile/lb is what you burn ±1%.
Either way, definitely eat back those calories!0 -
3dogsrunning wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »Kelley0519 wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »In a lifting session + cardio (45 minutes lifting, plus 20-ish minutes cardio) i'd say about 200? Difficult to tell. I know in the cardio i aim to burn atleast a hundred and then i back off.
I maintain around 1800 calories a day based on my non-exercise activity.
How are you tracking your calories burned? What activity are you doing to burn all these 400-1000 calories? What do you burn when you don't work out? What is your calorie intake like?
I track my calories burned by the exercise machine....for example, I would enter my weight and at the end, if the treadmill, elliptical, stair climber, ARC machine says I burned 525 calories....I would only enter 500 calories burned into MFP. I don't hand on to the sidings on the treadmill, I mostly run or walk on an incline. I can burned and easy 500 calories if I run 20 mins....including my warm up and cool down time. I do sets of light weight lifting, but I don't log these exercises, mostly because I wouldn't know what an accurate number. I normally eat around 1250-1350 calories per day if I got to the gym once a day. When I go twice, I try to eat around 1450 calories. I'm still learning so if I'm doing anything wrong, feel free to correct me. Thanks!
Yeah, this doesn't sound accurate.
Don't ever trust the machines at the gym, or MFP's estimate. Unless you are incredibly obese, a more realistic burn is 600-ish per HOUR of intense exercise.
In any case, as long as you aren't eating these back it shouldn't matter too much.
X1000
To burn 500 calories running, you'd have to be 200lbs and run 3 miles in 20 minutes which is very fast. You'd be winning age groups at smaller races at that pace.
If you are over 200, the distance will drop a bit. At 250 you'd have to run 2.5 miles. That an 8 minute mile which is still a pretty good pace.
I run on an incline as well so that helps. Thanks.0 -
Even with an hour cardio, almost an hour bodycombat class and some other machines, I'd only go as far as 400-500 calories estimate. Even this sounds too much to me with 2 hours workout.0
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scorpio516 wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »Kelley0519 wrote: »rainbowbow wrote: »In a lifting session + cardio (45 minutes lifting, plus 20-ish minutes cardio) i'd say about 200? Difficult to tell. I know in the cardio i aim to burn atleast a hundred and then i back off.
I maintain around 1800 calories a day based on my non-exercise activity.
How are you tracking your calories burned? What activity are you doing to burn all these 400-1000 calories? What do you burn when you don't work out? What is your calorie intake like?
I track my calories burned by the exercise machine....for example, I would enter my weight and at the end, if the treadmill, elliptical, stair climber, ARC machine says I burned 525 calories....I would only enter 500 calories burned into MFP. I don't hand on to the sidings on the treadmill, I mostly run or walk on an incline. I can burned and easy 500 calories if I run 20 mins....including my warm up and cool down time. I do sets of light weight lifting, but I don't log these exercises, mostly because I wouldn't know what an accurate number. I normally eat around 1250-1350 calories per day if I got to the gym once a day. When I go twice, I try to eat around 1450 calories. I'm still learning so if I'm doing anything wrong, feel free to correct me. Thanks!
Yeah, this doesn't sound accurate.
Don't ever trust the machines at the gym, or MFP's estimate. Unless you are incredibly obese, a more realistic burn is 600-ish per HOUR of intense exercise.
In any case, as long as you aren't eating these back it shouldn't matter too much.
One size does not fit all.
I can easily burn just about 1000 calories in 1 hour on my bike, averaging about 20 mph @ 170 lbs.
I can also burn about 1000 calories in 1 hour running, just not as easily. Takes about 9 to 9.5 miles. It's rare. And yes, I do go top 10 at local races. Or top 500 at huge local races
Running, 0.63 KCal/mile/lb is what you burn ±1%.
Either way, definitely eat back those calories!
Great input and definitely helpful! If someone is 125 lbs, it would obviously take them longer to burn 500 calories than it would for someone heavier. That's common sense. Thanks again!0 -
The burn on the machine is over inflated too.
Are you losing at a healthy rate? Maintaining?
What I used to do before implementing a heart rate monitor was cut whatever MFP guessed in half, and then eat back half to 75% of that number. Now, with a heart rate monitor, I just try to eat back half of what I burn according to that because those aren't 100% accurate, either.
Do what your doing for 6 weeks, and then look back at your average loss. Is it at a healthy rate? The expected rate? How do you feel? Adjust calories or activity accordingly.0 -
I eat 4k/day and am still dropping weight. So a lot. Distance runner.0
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ashliefisch wrote: »The burn on the machine is over inflated too.
Are you losing at a healthy rate? Maintaining?
What I used to do before implementing a heart rate monitor was cut whatever MFP guessed in half, and then eat back half to 75% of that number. Now, with a heart rate monitor, I just try to eat back half of what I burn according to that because those aren't 100% accurate, either.
Do what your doing for 6 weeks, and then look back at your average loss. Is it at a healthy rate? The expected rate? How do you feel? Adjust calories or activity accordingly.
I'm losing at a healthy rate. An average of 2 lbs per week. I eat back some of my calories. I tend to underestimate the number I enter into MFP....if a machine says I burned 525, I will put 500 in MPF and then maybe only eat 100 calories back. I feel fine. When I work out more, I'm hungrier so I'll eat a little more.0 -
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Then I wouldn't worry, just keep listening to your body and evaluate accordingly. Eat more back if you find yourself feeling sluggish.0
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ashliefisch wrote: »Then I wouldn't worry, just keep listening to your body and evaluate accordingly. Eat more back if you find yourself feeling sluggish.
Great, thanks for your input!0 -
Kelley0519 wrote: »
Yes. Yesterday was 4,003. But I don't really focus on it. I just eat as much as possible to fuel my running. The weight loss just happens. The days that I eat near 5k, I maintain. Unless I'm running 20milers. Which would burn around 2500cal.
This is for trail running too. So big vertical gains.0 -
I track my distance running. It can be anywhere from 400 calories for shorter runs and 1000 calories for longer runs. But what constitutes a long run for me, may not be a long run for others or vice versa.0
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