What exercise are you doing that burns the most calories?

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  • ay1978pa
    ay1978pa Posts: 142 Member
    Kettlebell snatches
  • RmYWarrioR
    RmYWarrioR Posts: 36 Member
    Running depending on the time, speed and distance would easily burn 400-500 calories for me. Any Insanity workout for the phase 1 portion of Insanity will push me to hit that mark as well. Normally I run for over 6 miles at a 5.5 mph or faster speed so, my burn is usually of 800 calories. Running is a best bet to guarantee good calorie burn.
  • chubbyrog
    chubbyrog Posts: 4
    Interval training!!!
  • shartso
    shartso Posts: 12
    High Intensity Training with weights. 30-40 minutes of good stuff.
  • questiontheanswers
    questiontheanswers Posts: 170 Member
    Kickboxing and hiking
  • chocolatemama30
    chocolatemama30 Posts: 14 Member
    Insanity baby!!!!!! Killer workout...leaves u half dead but is amazing!!!
  • akjmart2002
    akjmart2002 Posts: 263 Member
    Rock climbing or running, depending on the intensity of my session.

    Generally, I can hit 10-15 calories per minute in cardio, and 6-10 cal/min while climbing, unless I'm bouldering.
  • Baloostika
    Baloostika Posts: 203 Member
    I don't know for sure. My pedometer says I burn around 4 to 500 while when I get on MFP to log on one hour brisk walking I get btw 6 to almost 800. Which of them am I to rely on. Sorry I couldn't help.
  • Chameleone
    Chameleone Posts: 281 Member
    I just started Insanity and I'm finding I'm burning about the same amount of calories as I was when I first started JM Ripped in 30. Now Ripped in 30 has me burning a little less than 100 cals/10 minutes, but Insanity I burned about 110 cals/10 minutes...
    (I measure it that way because I usually don't do a full hour of workouts anways...
  • Chrisswa
    Chrisswa Posts: 71
    I am loving my cross trainer at my local Y and any group fitness class i can get into. I like to mix it up. I am a bigger person but have been working out every day for years. I struggle to burn calories (i have a FT7). Eighty minutes on the crosstrainer will burn around the 600 mark .... i wish i could burn more though :(.
  • Rogus1
    Rogus1 Posts: 60 Member
    Based on my heartrate monitor calculations, the exercise that burns the most calories per hour at maximum intensity that I can hold for an hour is rowing, next is cycling and then running. Running is last partly because I don't train enough at it to hold the intensity at the same peak that I can rowing or cycling. Rowing is the best because it's so much more of a ful body workout.
  • andrewlazenby
    andrewlazenby Posts: 151
    Most estimates are crazy high. I guess if you think you are burning the calories and it makes you do more then great!


    I ride bikes....a lot.... Just tonight I rode a hair over 30 miles and pushed hard to have an 18mph average. Took 1 hour and 39 minutes and I calculated 1067 calories.
  • Gremlinz
    Gremlinz Posts: 3,259 Member
    My highest right now is Tennis.
  • rooby2sday
    rooby2sday Posts: 6 Member
    Elliptical burns the most for me. But also take note that smaller people will burn less calories than larger people doing the same activities at the same intensity. I have friends that will burn 300 calories or more doing 45 minutes of walking 3.5 mph, but I (at 5'3" and 125 pounds) only burn 162.
  • CricketKate
    CricketKate Posts: 3,657 Member
    I kept trying to become a runner because of all the great posts that people were putting up and the fantastic burns I was seeing. However, after 1 knee surgery, 1 broken foot and 2 tendonitis's (?) my orthopedic surgeon said that running was definately NOT for me. I got a cheap bike from Target around Mother's Day and about a month ago I returned it and went to a bike store and invested a little more money into a road bike. I love it! I average between 800-1200 calories (according to my Polar HRM), depending on distance. The reason I share this long story with you is to make the point that you need to find something that you can do and that you can love to do. I have never liked running, but I kept trying to force myself because people said such great things about it. I love my bike, but cycling isn't for everybody. Finding an exercise that burns a lot of calories won't do much good if you hate doing it.
  • ladyark
    ladyark Posts: 1,101 Member
    I burn anywhere from 400-525 doing an hour of Zumba. That probably burns themost for me with the elliptical coming in second but, Zumba is more fun burning the calories and its over before i know it....where as the elip....im clock watching
  • NCchar130
    NCchar130 Posts: 955 Member
    Step aerobics is the big one I do currently.
  • destack
    destack Posts: 33 Member
    I love the arc trainer, it burns the most for me. I just ordered a BodyMedia Fit, though, so hopefully I'll be able to compare the calorie burn to classes soon.
  • Tat2dDom0105
    Tat2dDom0105 Posts: 661
    The treadmill
  • marinebiologist_girl
    marinebiologist_girl Posts: 300
    the treadmill on a incline burns cal much faster in a hour
    This is what I do too, I burn on average ~800 in my workout (usually between 40 and 90 mins)
  • MmmDrop
    MmmDrop Posts: 160 Member
    Zumba!!!! And a kick *kitten* kettlebell workout burns about the same for me! :D
  • samanthawarren
    samanthawarren Posts: 120
    Running or Hot Hula. I don't know how much I trust my HRM, but it shows I burn about the same doing either one. Of course I have a lot of weight to lose, so I burn more than someone who is smaller but in 30 minutes I burn about 380 in Hot Hula and 400 jogging.
    My bodybugg registers pretty close to that as well.
  • Yogi_Carl
    Yogi_Carl Posts: 1,906 Member
    Running or Insanity Pure Cardio

    edit: oh - and kettlebell
  • ChunkieNuts
    ChunkieNuts Posts: 135 Member
    Hands down, running.

    definately, without a doubt

    p.s - i burn alot more running outdoors than on a treadmill
  • shanelles
    shanelles Posts: 1
    I find using the cross trainer burns the most calories when im using equipment but u burn more calories doing a zumba class and getting ur heart rate up
  • vander7679
    vander7679 Posts: 109 Member
    ZUMBA CLASS, WITH A GREAT INSTRUCTOR!!!

    The instructor makes all the difference. It's between Zumba and Spin class for me.
  • Graceious1
    Graceious1 Posts: 716 Member
    Running, then for me martial arts.
  • Rachielous
    Rachielous Posts: 80 Member
    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?

    Cross Trainer (I think that is the same as an Eliptical in America) burns quite a bit as does running and cycling - remember that the heavier you are the more calories you burn so someone who is say 250lb's and does 30 minutes of biking will burn far more than someone who is 150lb's doing 30 minutes of biking...
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    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?

    400 - 500 isn't high at all - medium intensity I would say.

    I can do c.900/hour on an elliptical and c.800/hour cycling. They are very high intensity (for me) and couldn't maintain that for longer than an hour.
  • zombilishious
    zombilishious Posts: 1,250 Member
    1 mile warm up run, 60 minutes of strength training, followed by 15 minutes of intervals or 30 minutes on the elliptical. I use a Bodymedia and I burn 500-600 cals on strength training days. 350-450 on days I do 30-45 minutes of intervals.

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