Does biking burn fat faster?

dad106

Wow, okay, I never meant to start an argument or anything.

I know that in order to burn fat and lose weight, I need to be in calorie deficit. So I guess, for clarification for dad106, what I was asking was this: will biking be more beneficial to increasing my calorie deficit than power-walking on the treadmill (which is what I'm currently doing)?

and my answer to that is it depends on you and how fit you are.

The more fit you are, the less calories you burn over all... So you need to see which exercise burns more calories and stick with that.

I use to walk on a treadmill(not necessarily power walk, but walk on an incline at a speed of like 3.5-40) and as time went on, I realized I wasn't burning as many calories as I used to... and I wanted to up my calorie burn back into the 300-400 range doing cardio, so I took on running.

DopeItUp

Wow, okay, I never meant to start an argument or anything.

I know that in order to burn fat and lose weight, I need to be in calorie deficit. So I guess, for clarification for dad106, what I was asking was this: will biking be more beneficial to increasing my calorie deficit than power-walking on the treadmill (which is what I'm currently doing)?

I guess I'll cut and paste my reply from the beginning of the thread then...

None of them. All exercise burns calories. How many calories depends on the intensity. So pick one that you like versus which one you think is better. They're all the same, what matters is the effort you put in. Personally I like the elliptical because it's low impact and it's a good warmup to real exercise because you use upper and lower body.

Pick one and go hard.

meerkat70

Wow, okay, I never meant to start an argument or anything.

I know that in order to burn fat and lose weight, I need to be in calorie deficit. So I guess, for clarification for dad106, what I was asking was this: will biking be more beneficial to increasing my calorie deficit than power-walking on the treadmill (which is what I'm currently doing)?

Ah, don't worry, you didn't start an argument. This argument breaks out about once every ten minutes on this site... :-)

arc918

Calories in vs. calories out for sure. A couple years back I put on 10+ lbs while running 50+ miles per week. I was eating more than I was burning.

DopeItUp

Wow, okay, I never meant to start an argument or anything.

I know that in order to burn fat and lose weight, I need to be in calorie deficit. So I guess, for clarification for dad106, what I was asking was this: will biking be more beneficial to increasing my calorie deficit than power-walking on the treadmill (which is what I'm currently doing)?

Ah, don't worry, you didn't start an argument. This argument breaks out about once every ten minutes on this site... :-)

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xshortiex

Ah, okay.
Well, admittedly, I'm not super fit at the moment. My endurance is terrible, but like I said in my edited original post, I believe I'll be able to push myself harder on the bike than on the treadmill, so I guess I'll try that

My only problem with "seeing what burns more calories" is that I'm not exactly sure how many calories I'm burning. I don't log exercise anymore, but the few times I did, I got really confused because I had walked at 4.0mph on my treadmill for 50mins and my treadmill said I burned 500cals. However when I logged this, MFP told me I burned like 245cals. (I posted a topic about this yesterday, I think).

dad106

Ah, okay.
Well, admittedly, I'm not super fit at the moment. My endurance is terrible, but like I said in my edited original post, I believe I'll be able to push myself harder on the bike than on the treadmill, so I guess I'll try that

My only problem with "seeing what burns more calories" is that I'm not exactly sure how many calories I'm burning. I don't log exercise anymore, but the few times I did, I got really confused because I had walked at 4.0mph on my treadmill for 50mins and my treadmill said I burned 500cals. However when I logged this, MFP told me I burned like 245cals. (I posted a topic about this yesterday, I think).

Thats when most say to invest in an HRM, like Polar FT4 or FT7, to a pretty accurate estimation of calories burned.

If you can't do that, then I can tell you I used the treadmill at my gyms calorie count before I got an HRM and I did fine.. but I would suggest not eating back all calories if you go that route.

MissNations

I would do both. Alternate days or weeks so you don't get bored.

Nikki_Nx

cycling has gotten in in the best shape of my life, its awseom cardio and if u can go and really give 'er sh** then youre gonna hit some HIGH burns. theres lots of vids on youtube that u can follow along with, u gotta PUSHHHHHHH urself hard! ur gonna be a sweaty mess and ur gonna love it! i swear, give it 5 weeks, do at least 3hrs/wk...you'll see what im talking about

Thanks for that advice.....I want to get into cycling....used to love cycling everywhere when I was a kid, have gone and bought some lovely well padded cycle shorts (why is it that bicycle seats are always so uncomfortable?LOL)...and gloves to wear. One of my goals is to be able to cycle into work )

Nikki_Nx

What about Spinning? Have you tried that? Thats similar to biking )

xshortiex

What about Spinning? Have you tried that? Thats similar to biking )

What's spinning? I'm not familiar with that term.

And to everyone else: Thanks so, so much for the feedback: I learned a lot

ModoVincere

What about Spinning? Have you tried that? Thats similar to biking )

What's spinning? I'm not familiar with that term.

And to everyone else: Thanks so, so much for the feedback: I learned a lot

Indoor cycling classes....often more of an on bike aerobics class than a true cycling workout. They can be fun and a good change of pace. Also, good way to burn of some energy during the winter months.