It's getting harder and harder to burn calories

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  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    OP if you want to challenge yourself, go for Body Attack, over combat. I used to easily finish the combat classes, but rarely finished the whole hour of Attack!
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    OP if you want to challenge yourself, go for Body Attack, over combat. I used to easily finish the combat classes, but rarely finished the whole hour of Attack!

    I didn't realize you took Les Mills classes!

    It seems the OP was planning on doing the home version of combat, though
  • Christine_72
    Christine_72 Posts: 16,049 Member
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    OP if you want to challenge yourself, go for Body Attack, over combat. I used to easily finish the combat classes, but rarely finished the whole hour of Attack!

    I didn't realize you took Les Mills classes!

    It seems the OP was planning on doing the home version of combat, though

    I used to when i went to the gym. I dreaded those body attack classes, they were brutal!
    I wonder if the home dvd versions are the same as the gym classes.. I would think so??

  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    OP if you want to challenge yourself, go for Body Attack, over combat. I used to easily finish the combat classes, but rarely finished the whole hour of Attack!

    I didn't realize you took Les Mills classes!

    It seems the OP was planning on doing the home version of combat, though

    I used to when i went to the gym. I dreaded those body attack classes, they were brutal!
    I wonder if the home dvd versions are the same as the gym classes.. I would think so??

    I know they released a home version for combat, but I wasn't sure they did so for BodyAttack. For the benefit of anyone else reading, BodyAttack classes have options and you don't always have to do the most difficult level :). But I kinda like it for that reason - there's always some way to go higher, it seems
  • Shells918
    Shells918 Posts: 1,070 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    OP if you want to challenge yourself, go for Body Attack, over combat. I used to easily finish the combat classes, but rarely finished the whole hour of Attack!
    JaneiR36 wrote: »
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    OP if you want to challenge yourself, go for Body Attack, over combat. I used to easily finish the combat classes, but rarely finished the whole hour of Attack!

    I didn't realize you took Les Mills classes!

    It seems the OP was planning on doing the home version of combat, though

    Yes, I am going to do the home version. They have various calendars, so typically I start with the easiest one and work my way through each one, or do that program and then an extra workout with it. Some of the Les Mills videos are only 30 minutes for the whole day so I'd definitely want to do another workout on top of that.
  • michelleepotter
    michelleepotter Posts: 800 Member
    I have a question no one has asked... When you say "Fitbit," is it one of the ones that measures HR? Or one that's just a pedometer? Maybe that's a stupid question, but I thought it was worth throwing out there.
  • Shells918
    Shells918 Posts: 1,070 Member
    michelleepotter wrote: »
    I have a question no one has asked... When you say "Fitbit," is it one of the ones that measures HR? Or one that's just a pedometer? Maybe that's a stupid question, but I thought it was worth throwing out there.

    It's a charge hr. It measures hr, steps, calories, sleep... I wear it 24/7 except for showering and while it's charging.
  • MelodyandBarbells
    MelodyandBarbells Posts: 7,724 Member
    rankinsect wrote: »
    One thing to know about calorie estimation from heart rate monitors - if you're in low cardiovascular fitness, they tend to overestimate calories burned, and if you're in high cardiovascular fitness, they tend to underestimate.

    The reason is that it's doing an estimate without having any way to measure one key variable. Calorie burn does correlate pretty well with oxygen consumption, and oxygen consumption does correlate pretty well with cardiac output, but cardiac output is the product of two things: your heart rate (easily measured) and the stroke volume, the amount of blood moved in each beat. Stroke volume isn't measurable at home, not until someone invents a wearable echocardiogram.

    As your cardiac fitness goes up, your stroke volume goes up; your heart gets stronger and moves more blood per beat. This means that a very fit person will have a lower fitbit reading than a very unfit person, even if both do the same actual calorie burn, because the unfit person's heart needs to beat more times to move the same amount of blood.

    Hmm. I wonder what's proportional to this stroke volume per beat that we could indeed measure! Or when they'll come out with wearable echocardiograms ;)
  • CincyNeid
    CincyNeid Posts: 1,249 Member
    3dogsrunning wrote: »
    CincyNeid wrote: »
    It has a lot to do with BMI as well. I can attest to that personally. When I started my weight loss journey I could burn 1,300 calories in about 10 miles of bike riding. And just today I went on a 30 mile ride and burned less than 1,100 miles.

    As your weight goes down, the more effective it becomes at burning calories.

    One of the biggest reasons I HATE those "It takes this many miles of walking to burn of this [fill in the blank] memes you see on facebook. Everyone's BMI and metabolic rate is different.

    It has nothing to do with BMI and metabolic rate. It takes less energy to move less mass. So the lower your weight, the fewer calories it requires to do the same work. See sijominal's post above.

    Less BMI equals less mass to move around. BMI = body mass index....
  • Icemanbn
    Icemanbn Posts: 10 Member
    If you ask your body to keep doing the same things, you will get fitter and burn fewer doing the same workouts. We need to add intensity or duration or both in some measured way. 10% a week is the suggestion for both, 3 weeks build, then a week of recovery at 50%. We get stronger on our rest days when we let the body repair the muscles from workouts. Cross-training is a great idea because it keeps mixing things up. Make hard workouts hard, easy workouts easy and never two back to back hard ones. This is a science. Lots to learn. I started at about 400 pounds 10 years ago. I weight 187 now, 2X IronMan, USA Triathlon coach. Lots of great experience comes from wanting to get fit, exercising and eating right. Good luck

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