800-1,000 cal BURN

kat_lifts

I've seen more than 1000 sometimes. Idk how these people do it, it really is astonishing. I've got what food to eat down pat. And I put in an effort to sweat 6 days a wk. my burns are between 162-360. I've tried to do a 1000 cal burn workout and I couldn't!! Like damn what are you people on!? Lol

What's up with that?

RosyBest

Today I burned 1100 calories on Zumba alone. Keep in mind, I am MUCH bigger than you...but I have not found a workout that burns as many calories than Zumba. You don't have to be a dancer either, it's all exercise and fun.

Mama530

I've heard U Jam burns up to 1000 calories and the kickboxing class burned 800. It's pretty intense, but a great workout.

Athena53

My max was 823 in a sprint triathlon (1/3 mile swim 9 mile bike, 5K) which I completed in 1:45. Believe me, I don't do that every day. I have gotten close with some 20-mile bike rides on the weekends.

tanya203

I actually had one of those 1100 burns today. I pumped out about 1.5 hours at the gym. 30 min jog, 20 min elliptical, then 35 min weights. However much of my day was running around doing errands, walking. A couple hours of walking can put you in that 800-1000 zone after a really good workout. When it happens to me it's incidental. I'm not trying to burn that many calories, it just sort of happened that way.

micheleb15

There is a difference in those that use a HRM and those that use other calculators. Obviously, weight, height, etc play a part in this too. Some/most are over-estimated.

Mercedespony

I did one yesterday. I own a polar F7, w/chest strap, so watch my heart rate, burn etc.

Did my warm up on the treadmill, walk 5, jog 15, walk 5;
Met my trainer, 60 mins of his hiit cardio/strength experience;
Then for some reason thought it would be a good ideal to finish it off with an hour hot yoga class.

Today is a rest day. And I won't be in a rush to do all of the above in one 3 hour session again anytime soon.

jdm_taco

lot of people lie to themselves

CLFrancois

I run the same amount/time as a friend of mine. He outweighs me by 85 pounds. He burns much more than I do.

kokorae

Using my Mio, I calculated that a 30 min rollerblading session I had with my dogs burned 480 cals. I was doing it at a moderate speed also. I'm sure I could have burned so much more had I done it longer and harder. But I'm just starting out and not trying to kill myself lol.

KristiRTT

Most of those people who say they burn 1,000+ calories are way over estimating! And doing that doesn't help you lose weight, it just gives you an excuse to eat more!! For example, at 135 pounds it takes me an entire half marathon to burn over 1,000 calories, that's 2 straight hours of running! There is no way that you can burn close to that number in less than an hour, even at 200 pounds!

Joreanasaurous

I easily do that once a week. It isn't that hard.





... But it also involves a Sunday hike that is an all day event and I am lugging about a third my bodyweight in my pack.

Sjenny5891

I am 5'3"... 115lb.... According to MFP, I burn almost 500 calories in 1 hour of Zumba. I like to take a 3 mile walk in the morning after work = 150 calories.

It was a lot higher before I lost the weight.

Yanicka1

In the whole 3 years I have been here, I never had a calorie burn of 1000. Closest was a 2 and a half hour hiking at about 700 calories.

ritchiedrama

There is no way anyone is burning 800-1000 calories in an hour, I don't care if you run at 300 mph for an entire hour, it isn't happening and I don't care what your little HRM says

wolfchild59

Only time i get to 800 calories for a burn is when I run eight miles. I get a 1000 calorie burn when I run 10 miles. But I can't do either of those in a hour.

Superchikanthem

I got a 1100 burn doing a 10k in may and 2200 the year before doing a half marathon. The half I used one kind of HRM and the 10k I had 2 different kinds both with about the same burn (within 10cal) both times I was 170lbs and I'm 5' 7"

Julesjhj

I sometimes log a 1000+ burn a couple of times a week. Let me preface that by saying that I wear a PolarFT60 HRM but I do believe and have read that HRM's in general can be off by as much as 20%. I bet I'm a lot bigger than you though....I'm 5'7ish and weigh between 135-140. My high burns are usually over 3-5 hour time period and I'm busting my butt! I take care of 10 horses several days a week and I'm mucking stalls, shoveling, raking, lifting 50lb bags of feed, bedding and hay bales. It's hard labor but I get paid to do what I love and get an awesome workout at the same time. I also play league tennis several days a week and that also torches the calories especially if I end up playing a three hour match.

born2drum

I burn over 3000calories on training Day lol

OMGeeeHorses

I am a bigger girl and have a core armband by bodymedia. I got one to tell me how much my BODY burns and I can get into 1,000 calories if I push myself and walk close to 1hr 45min. Like today was 761 calories just from heavy lifting and walking. So with your body frame, getting up to 1,000 just means really PUSHING to get the burn.

keithmustloseweight

I do that every other day, starting with a 10km run followed by a visit to the gym to blast my quads, traps, octoids and bezier curves followed by lunch box squats and some dumbell javelins and venus fly traps it aint no thing

MaryJane_8810002

Sometimes i do a 600 calorie workout in the morning and then a 700 calorie workout in the evening. After the morning workout I delete the update and then at night time it will show that i burned 1300 calories.

arc918

I do that most every morning. Here's the trick; be pretty heavy and be pretty fast.

I usually run 6 - 8+ miles on weekday mornings. At 180 lbs, that ~ 130+ calories per mile.

On Tuesday morning I did a tempo run, 8 miles in just under an hour (~ 7:25 per mile). So that's 1,000+ in an hour. Edit to add: that's a TOUGH workout, I couldn't do it every day (the pace, not the distance).

You're welcome to join me for a run anytime. Here's my running log.

http://www.runningahead.com/logs/a4a1f19a498b4a9c91ed2ada1bc9fde2/calendar/2013/7

phoenixgirl81

I can burn >1000 cal on a 10km run, or on a strenuous bushwalk, or a trail run, or even after 2-3 hrs of roller skating! When I was bigger, 1000 calories was much easier to burn than it is now, but it's still pretty easy to do, providing you're willing to put the sweat in.

Obviously walking is going to burn less than walking. On Thursday I went for a two hour bush walk (about 10km - mostly downhill or flat) and I burned just over 500 cal. But my 1 hour run (>7km) this morning I burned more than that!

In march, I had a 4,000 cal burn - 7 hours climbing an active volcano!

All of these burns were calculated with a Polar FT7 HRM.

Commander_Keen

3x a day. Shoot for 300 calories burn a session.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

I never burn anywhere close to that much. Once I did an all day hike and a couple of calculators estimated my burn at around 700 over my normal TDEE, and once I went snorkeling all day and estimated about 600 for that. Honestly though I'm not convinced that it's possible to get a truly accurate estimate of calorie burn so I just do the TDEE-10% method and adjust calories as needed.

Zekela

I burn normally 1200 cals a day on average (on Saturdays close to 1700). I'm obviously not lying to myself since I'm a mere 116 pounds at 5'5"... I run.

RosyBest

After reading all of the comments....it's clear that many smaller weighted people have difficulty having a big burn session. People that are heavier and over 200 and 300 lbs naturally burn more. Just like someone who is 140 lbs may find it impossible to lose 8 lbs in a week, whereas a bigger person like myself have experienced that quite a few times. Just because YOU may not be able to burn that much in a workout...doesn't mean it's impossible. I wish I was small enough to have that problem.

ritchiedrama

After reading all of the comments....it's clear that many smaller weighted people have difficulty having a big burn session. People that are heavier and over 200 and 300 lbs naturally burn more. Just like someone who is 140 lbs may find it impossible to lose 8 lbs in a week, whereas a bigger person like myself have experienced that quite a few times. Just because YOU may not be able to burn that much in a workout...doesn't mean it's impossible. I wish I was small enough to have that problem.

People who are leaner, burn more calories actually, as far as my knowledge extends - you are not burning 1000 calories in 1 hour.

ILiftHeavyAcrylics

After reading all of the comments....it's clear that many smaller weighted people have difficulty having a big burn session. People that are heavier and over 200 and 300 lbs naturally burn more. Just like someone who is 140 lbs may find it impossible to lose 8 lbs in a week, whereas a bigger person like myself have experienced that quite a few times. Just because YOU may not be able to burn that much in a workout...doesn't mean it's impossible. I wish I was small enough to have that problem.

I've heard it argued both ways. I've heard people say that bigger people burn more because they're moving more weight (and this works for TDEE so it may be the correct argument) and I've heard people say that smaller people burn more because they can be a lot more intense.

ETA: I don't actually know which is more likely to be true, just saying it gets told both ways

Kamatayan

I use a Polar FT7.

At 6'6" and ~370lbs, today, I warmed up, stretched, did a number on my legs in a workout, then played full court basketball. In 3 hours I burned (according to my HRM) 2162 calories.

I'm following the TDEE -20% method, so most of that burn I won't eat back, if any at all.