How many calories are you burning a day from exercise?

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  • yesimpson
    yesimpson Posts: 1,372 Member
    Some days I get to 800-1000 (like now, as I'm off work for the summer), but sometimes as little as 50!
    200-400 is average.
  • SingingSingleTracker
    SingingSingleTracker Posts: 1,866 Member
    edited August 2016
    sgt1372 wrote: »
    Wow, people are posting some really crazy daily calories burned numbers!

    Can't imagine what I'd look like or how much I'd have to eat to make up the loss, if I burned +1k cals/day. That's just crazy!!!

    Not if one is riding their bike in higher heart rate zones for 90 minutes to 3+ hours a day. It's quite easy to burn through the calories. But to burn 1K calories per day for a consecutive week is exhausting and not advised by me. I did it for one week as part of a challenge last year and didn't enjoy what I felt like on day 6 and 7. And I rode for a week in Italy this summer which averaged 4 - 6 hours per day on the bike. I don't think any of us do that on any sort of a regular basis outside of a maybe a week or two or three per year. We do include one or two days of "active recovery" where we might ride for 60 - 120 minutes, but at a slower/easier pace where the calorie burn is under 1K.

    Endurance athletes don't even blink an eye at burning 1K, 2K, or 3K calories on a given day. I burned 1584 calories yesterday during a 90 minute mountain bike race. And that doesn't include the warm-up (25 minutes) and cool down (20 minutes). A sample of the heart rate zones that I hit during that 90 minute race are here...

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  • KatieJane83
    KatieJane83 Posts: 2,002 Member
    Totally all over the place, depending on the day, lol

    Short run days (3-4 miles) - 300-400 cals
    short run + lifting days - 700-800 cals
    Zumba + 1mi run days - 600-700 cals
    Zumba + 2mi run days - 700-800 cals
    long run days (9-10 miles) - 1100-1200 cals

  • tiggerlove
    tiggerlove Posts: 225 Member
    thats a good burn but it also dependes on the workout ur doing and how long ur doing it for. As long as ur not sitting around doing nothing ur good to go.
  • jdawson002
    jdawson002 Posts: 167 Member
    I don't leave the gym until I do at least 500 calories.....I can normally do this in 45 minutes
  • Terpnista84
    Terpnista84 Posts: 517 Member
    If I take a walk during lunch I can burn over 1,000 calories. That includes exercise calories.

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