2,000 calories an hour workout..

MichaelPowell
MichaelPowell Posts: 23
edited September 22 in Health and Weight Loss
Was wondering if there is a cardo-workout that can burn 2,000 calories an hour?
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  • BoresEasily
    BoresEasily Posts: 582
    No.
  • championnfl
    championnfl Posts: 324 Member
    Not unless your the Flash !:wink:
  • KellyBurton1
    KellyBurton1 Posts: 529 Member
    I wish
  • grouch201
    grouch201 Posts: 404 Member
    From everything I've gathered, you'd be doing pretty dang good to burn 1,000 cals/hour.
  • mschaal
    mschaal Posts: 8
    Below is a link that breaks out the burn rate per hour for a variety of activities...

    http://www.nutristrategy.com/activitylist4.htm
  • Mindful_Trent
    Mindful_Trent Posts: 3,954 Member
    Think of it this way, a 190 lb individual who ran 10 miles/hr (6 min miles) for a whole hour would only burn somewhere around 1400-1500 calories.... so probably not.
  • BoresEasily
    BoresEasily Posts: 582
    Think of it this way, a 190 lb individual who ran 10 miles/hr (6 min miles) for a whole hour would only burn somewhere around 1400-1500 calories.... so probably not.

    If that's the case wouldn't a 250-300lb individual burn considerably more?
  • binary_jester
    binary_jester Posts: 3,311 Member
    Yes! Yesterday I did tabata. Set the elliptical at resistance of 20. I did full speed for 20 seconds alternating with 10 seconds of slow movement. My HRM says i burned 130 calories in that 4 minutes * 15 = 1950 calories. It was easily the longest 4 minutes of my life. If you go for an hour at that rate, I highly suggest you call the paramedics (or morgue) and schedule an appointment ahead of time.
  • Mindful_Trent
    Mindful_Trent Posts: 3,954 Member
    Think of it this way, a 190 lb individual who ran 10 miles/hr (6 min miles) for a whole hour would only burn somewhere around 1400-1500 calories.... so probably not.

    If that's the case wouldn't a 250-300lb individual burn considerably more?

    Yes, but how many 250-300 lb people could run 10 miles an hour for an hour without stopping? Realistically, most people couldn't burn 2000 calories in an hour.
  • MichaelPowell
    MichaelPowell Posts: 23
    Not unless your the Flash !:wink:

    Cool, Maybe with Thermo-Genesis "Walking in the Cold Weather".. Then drinking Hot Water right after that.
    "Brainstorming". May experiment with that..
  • MichaelPowell
    MichaelPowell Posts: 23
    Yes! Yesterday I did tabata. Set the elliptical at resistance of 20. I did full speed for 20 seconds alternating with 10 seconds of slow movement. My HRM says i burned 130 calories in that 4 minutes * 15 = 1950 calories. It was easily the longest 4 minutes of my life. If you go for an hour at that rate, I highly suggest you call the paramedics (or morgue) and schedule an appointment ahead of time.

    Cool, I'll try that. Wonder if that will work on a stationary bike.. I have one.
  • Nich0le
    Nich0le Posts: 2,906 Member
    Think of it this way, a 190 lb individual who ran 10 miles/hr (6 min miles) for a whole hour would only burn somewhere around 1400-1500 calories.... so probably not.

    If that's the case wouldn't a 250-300lb individual burn considerably more?

    Yes, but how many 250-300 lb people could run 10 miles an hour for an hour without stopping? Realistically, most people couldn't burn 2000 calories in an hour.

    Right?!

    I would guess the answer is no and the water idea is fun but it's just going to keep you warm not burn too many calories. Good luck though, if you find this miracle workout I want in :wink:

    Oh and using running as the best example a 190lb person would have to run 12mph for one hour to burn 1900, I don't know how much you weigh but here's a good website for determining how many cals you burn per hour with different exercises.

    healthstatus.com
  • MichaelPowell
    MichaelPowell Posts: 23
    Below is a link that breaks out the burn rate per hour for a variety of activities...

    http://www.nutristrategy.com/activitylist4.htm

    Cool, thanks.
  • nickeymhughes
    nickeymhughes Posts: 115 Member
    D-ball...
    lololololololo
  • BoresEasily
    BoresEasily Posts: 582
    Yes! Yesterday I did tabata. Set the elliptical at resistance of 20. I did full speed for 20 seconds alternating with 10 seconds of slow movement. My HRM says i burned 130 calories in that 4 minutes * 15 = 1950 calories. It was easily the longest 4 minutes of my life. If you go for an hour at that rate, I highly suggest you call the paramedics (or morgue) and schedule an appointment ahead of time.

    Cool, I'll try that. Wonder if that will work on a stationary bike.. I have one.

    The original Tabata protocol was done using a stationary bike and I've heard personal trainers who had some of their fittest clients try it and there have only been 2 or 3 of the clients that would even consider doing it again. Those are elite athletes so that says a lot.
  • BoresEasily
    BoresEasily Posts: 582
    Make sure you are very fit because that is a very very very deadly workout. That's full out sprinting, no holding back and then minimal rest. Be careful.
  • bethvandenberg
    bethvandenberg Posts: 1,496 Member
    a stupid question here but why do you want to burn 2000 cals in an hour?
  • nickeymhughes
    nickeymhughes Posts: 115 Member
    Thats a great question.....inquiring minds what to know... Why do you want to lose 2000 cal an hour????
  • nickeymhughes
    nickeymhughes Posts: 115 Member
    lololol
  • EricInArlington
    EricInArlington Posts: 531 Member
    me and my daughter were just talking about this, Ive seen some people put down "cleaning house/grooving to the Ipod" in the exercise column? they did 120mins and burned 1100cals, we just walked @3.5 for 30mins and only burned 180 or so. The math just don't add up on some of the exercises
  • MichaelPowell
    MichaelPowell Posts: 23
    Thats a great question.....inquiring minds what to know... Why do you want to lose 2000 cal an hour????

    To lose weight, my scale has not gone down for a while since I've been eating right and exercising everyday.
  • bloodbank
    bloodbank Posts: 468 Member
    To lose weight, my scale has not gone down for a while since I've been eating right and exercising everyday.

    Your weight loss is probably going much slower than you'd like because you logged such things as "sleeping" and "sitting" and whatnot for a 2400+ calorie burn yesterday... Just an fyi, your in/activity level is already taken into account by MFP, you most definitely don't need to be logging things that aren't actual, active attempts at real exercise.
  • BoresEasily
    BoresEasily Posts: 582
    *You've earned 2832 extra calories from exercise today

    That was for Monday. What the hell did you do exercise wise to possibly earn that many extra calories?
  • Laceylala
    Laceylala Posts: 3,094 Member
    If i am really busting my *kitten* at the gym on the elliptical or cybex I can burn 10 cals per minute. That is enough for me.

    Good luck and keep at it!
  • kelsully
    kelsully Posts: 1,008 Member
    Think of it this way, a 190 lb individual who ran 10 miles/hr (6 min miles) for a whole hour would only burn somewhere around 1400-1500 calories.... so probably not.

    If that's the case wouldn't a 250-300lb individual burn considerably more?


    6 min miles are pretty darn fast..unlikely a lot of 190 lb men run those (I am sure there are some so don't flame me on that please) If a 250-300 lb man were running 6 min mles then yes they could probably burn a load of calories but that is not highly likely..but even still I wouldn't think it would still make it up to 2000 cals because to run that fast you have to have conditioning in which your heart rate would be conditioned etc etc etc...
  • stormieweather
    stormieweather Posts: 2,549 Member
    Don't log anything as an "exercise" (one that increases calorie allowance) unless it is substantial and in addition to your normal living activities (job, housework, personal hygiene, cooking, shopping, etc.)
  • Elizabeth_C34
    Elizabeth_C34 Posts: 6,376 Member
    Any intense interval training will burn a lot of calories in not much time, however, keeping that up for a whole hour is likely to severely stress your body unless you are incredibly fit already.

    As for the whole 2,000 per hour burn, I seriously doubt that anyone could do that unless you're a super-athlete.
  • kelsully
    kelsully Posts: 1,008 Member
    Any intense interval training will burn a lot of calories in not much time, however, keeping that up for a whole hour is likely to severely stress your body unless you are incredibly fit already.

    As for the whole 2,000 per hour burn, I seriously doubt that anyone could do that unless you're a super-athlete.



    but that is just it... a super athlete hs conditioned themselves to be super...Michael Phelps' heartrate doesn't go up high enough to burn that many calories unless he is doing something so incredible intense it would kill a normal human. When I started running again a year ago....running 10 minute miles had me burning about 100 cals a mile approximately...now I have to run 8 minute miles (which I love) to get my heart rate up that high...even still I only burn about 90-95 cals a mile. My conditioning has improved so much that my intensity has to be much higher to achieve the same burn. I run my fanny off it takes me about 22 miles ..which takes more than 3 hours to burn 2000 calories.
  • BoresEasily
    BoresEasily Posts: 582
    kel, exactly. Once you become more conditioned it becomes harder to get that increase in heart rate so therefore you actually burn less calories. There's nothing that will do 2K in an hour, but you could do 2K in a day or over the course of a few hours. Something like golf or a long bike ride would do it or playing some kind of sport.
  • edorice
    edorice Posts: 4,519 Member
    Think of it this way, a 190 lb individual who ran 10 miles/hr (6 min miles) for a whole hour would only burn somewhere around 1400-1500 calories.... so probably not.

    If that's the case wouldn't a 250-300lb individual burn considerably more?

    When is the last time that you saw a 300 pound person run 10 miles?
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