treadmill/elliptical equal to workout videos

valene92
valene92 Posts: 8
in Fitness and Exercise
does running on the treadmill burn the same amount of calories if you were to workout by using a workout dvd such as a jillian michaels one?

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  • grimendale
    grimendale Posts: 2,153 Member
    That's a very open-ended question. How much you burn on a treadmill is going to depend on your speed, weight and incline. The specific workout video you use also makes a huge difference, as does the intensity you do the workout at. Given the number of variables involved, I would say it is unlikely that they burn the same amout. You'd have to experiment to see which burns more for you. I burn a little less (about 150 calories difference) running a 10k outdoors in about an hour than I do going through 45 minutes of Insanity as a comparison point.

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