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    What exercise are you doing that burns the most calories?

    Posts: 90
    edited December 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
    I'm always seeing people that I am friends with burning 400-500 calories doing some type of exercise. How are you achieving such high calorie burns? What is your favorite calorie burning workout?

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      eliptical
    • Posts: 42 Member
      Running or Insanity. I strongly recommend you get at Heart Rate Montior. That's how you know exactly how many calories you are burning which is always more or less than what MFP says you are burning.
    • Posts: 3,265 Member
      Hands down, running.
    • Posts: 49,174 Member
      Kickboxing. Depending on my intensity, it's between 600-1000 in an hour.

      A.C.E. Certified Personal and Group Fitness Trainer
      IDEA Fitness member
      Kickboxing Certified Instructor
      Been in fitness for 28+ years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition
    • Posts: 67 Member
      the treadmill on a incline burns cal much faster in a hour
    • Posts: 63
      STAIRMASTER on at least 85+ steps per minute for 30 minutes straight. Not impossilbe but it will kick your butt.
    • Posts: 13,247 Member
      400-500 calories would be 4-5 miles of running for me.
    • Posts: 712 Member
      Kickboxing.

      (Zumba burns less for me)
    • Posts: 513 Member
      Hiking. Going up/down a mountain with a backpack on burns LOTS of calories. Last weekend we did 3.2 miles in about an hour and forty minutes. 900+ calorie burn for me.
    • Posts: 559
      400-500 calories would be 4-5 miles of running for me.

      Pretty much the same for me.
    • Posts: 131 Member
      rock climbing.
    • Posts: 434 Member
      stair master
    • Posts: 145 Member
      Running for sure, no equipment required and you can do it just about anywhere.
    • Posts: 78 Member
      ZUMBA CLASS, WITH A GREAT INSTRUCTOR!!!
    • Posts: 96
      Rollerskating burns a ton and it's not boring like running (at least for me) so I can easily go to open skate for 2 hours and burn 500 calories.
    • Posts: 10,413 Member
      The one that you do at the highest intensity will burn the most cals. So it'll likely be different for everyone.

      Personally, it's mountain biking. If I'm going hard I can top 1000 cals in an hour.
    • Posts: 198 Member
      Running and hiking for me! =)
    • Posts: 167 Member
      Jazzercise for me! :heart: :heart:
    • Posts: 572 Member
      Spin class! This morning I burned 515 calories in 60 minutes.
    • Posts: 434 Member
      400-500 calories would be 4-5 miles of running for me.


      Ditto
    • Posts: 105 Member
      treadmill for 60 minutes incline around 8 - 10 and doing 5.5 to 9 on the speed its more high intensity but burns ALOT of calories
    • Posts: 18,842 Member
      Whatever gets the HR up there the highest for longest period of time.
      Usually biking or spin class because it's not hard on the joints and can maintain high HR for extended time.

      And can do something the next day.

      Running can get up there too, but much harder pounding, so can't do it as long, and if that intense, can't do it the next day.

      Walking at stupid high incline actually can too, and much better recovery time, but treadmill only for that.
    • Posts: 75 Member
      Kickboxing! <3
    • Posts: 777 Member
      Cybex Arc Trainer -- It's like a super powered elliptical. I burn about 800 cals an hour on it!
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      bodyrock - it is interval training that is high intensity for a short time. Check it out - it is always free! They have a brand new work out every day that you can follow and if you can't keep up, they provide modifications.

      www.bodyrock.tv

      Great website!!
    • Posts: 2,674 Member
      HIIT on an incline bike.
    • Posts: 2
      definetly kick boxing 800 cals an hour & trust me where I go... it works
    • Posts: 33
      cycling and dancing for me
    • Posts: 10,413 Member
      treadmill for 60 minutes incline around 8 - 10 and doing 5.5 to 9 on the speed its more high intensity but burns ALOT of calories

      High intensity = high calories. It's the only thing you have control over that will affect calorie burn. Unless you start carrying weights around with you I guess.
    • Posts: 1,990 Member
      dacing for one hour !!!!! burns 300-400 cals!!! and sooo much fun!!!
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