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Calories burnt per day

twdlove89
twdlove89 Posts: 95 Member
edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I’m just curious as to how many exercise calories people burn per day wether losing or maintaining weight.
I saw someone’s calorie burn from their Apple Watch and it said 1400 exercise calories burnt for that day 😳 I can just about burn 700 on exercise days.

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  • quiksylver296
    quiksylver296 Posts: 28,439 Member
    edited January 2019
    Your body burns calories all day, not just when you are exercising. My daily calories are around 2400-2500 calories per day. And I don't do cardio.
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    Apple Watch gives “active” calories. That’s calories burned when a person is being “active”. Active includes most (but not all) movement - not just purposeful exercise. I would be unusual for this number to ever be 0 unless the person literally did not leave bed all day.
  • TavistockToad
    TavistockToad Posts: 35,719 Member
    twdlove89 wrote: »
    I’m just curious as to how many exercise calories people burn per day wether losing or maintaining weight.
    I saw someone’s calorie burn from their Apple Watch and it said 1400 exercise calories burnt for that day 😳 I can just about burn 700 on exercise days.

    Anywhere between 150 - 1000 cals depending what my workout is on a particular day.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    On average 150-500 with purposeful exercise depending on what I'm doing. 1,000+ on long rides.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    My actual workouts burn 200-1,500 calories (depending on how long my run is). Most days that means I'm using about 2,000-2,200 calories each day once everything (exercise, BMR, other activity) is accounted for.
  • lin_be
    lin_be Posts: 393 Member
    100-250 a day in exercise calories.
  • NorthCascades
    NorthCascades Posts: 10,968 Member
    4 hours cross country skiing yesterday followed by 2 hours on the bike. The sun was out which is rare in the winter here. Fantastic day. Today it will be 8 hours of being at work and 1 lifting heavy things in the gym.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 35,316 Member
    Usually 300 calories +/- 50, from a typical spin class or rowing machine/rowing shell workout. (Anything from zero exercise calories to lots is possible, if I do something unusual. ;) ).

    I'm 5'5", weight mid-130s (pounds), maintaining, age 63, TDEE somewhere in the low to mid 2000s, based on almost 4 years of MFP logging experience. I've been active for a decade plus; estimated calories were around 30% higher for the same activities 4 years or so ago when I weighed 30% more. ;)
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    edited January 2019
    The Apple Watch isn't just estimating exercise but to answer your question.....

    Roughly 500 / day on average from cycling, plus very roughly 100 / day on average from strength training over course of a year.

    Variations per day are massive though from 0 to very rarely about 4500.
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