what exercise to do to burn 500 calories

Melissaol
Melissaol Posts: 948 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
Im doing this challenge and need to lose 500-1000. what exericeses do i do to get this kind of burn, without spending the whole day at the gym?
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  • da_bears10089
    da_bears10089 Posts: 1,791 Member
    i usually burn over 600 cal during zumba and that is like a 50-55 minute class.
  • Risscris
    Risscris Posts: 3
    Try Spinning. I loose 500+ calories a class, and I love it!!
  • cyberiarob
    cyberiarob Posts: 229 Member
    That's about how much I burn by running 3 or 4 miles.
  • carrieous
    carrieous Posts: 1,024 Member
    walk or run 5 miles
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
    Im doing this challenge and need to lose 500-1000. what exericeses do i do to get this kind of burn, without spending the whole day at the gym?

    Simply by living you'll burn 500 cals or pick any exercise you like to do for a little extra burn
  • taso42
    taso42 Posts: 8,980 Member
    Sit around for about 5.5 hours. That's about a 500 calorie burn.
  • alyssamiller77
    alyssamiller77 Posts: 891 Member
    Without knowing your height and weight, I'll generalize and say about 45-60 minutes of any traditional cardio activity at a level of effort that gets your heart up to at least 60-70% of your theoretical max heart rate.
  • LisaGirlfriend
    LisaGirlfriend Posts: 493 Member
    I danced for 2.5 hours straight Saturday night with my girlfriends and burned exactly 500 according to HRM. Fast walking / jogging is a great burn too. Zumba is a blast!!
  • MJackson54
    MJackson54 Posts: 44 Member
    I can burn 600-800 calories by swimming for an hour or so.
  • seanezekiel
    seanezekiel Posts: 228 Member
    I burned 506 from a 89 minute walk if that helps.
  • jeffsieck
    jeffsieck Posts: 10 Member
    I use an elliptical for an hour and keep my heart rate in between 110 and 120. This burns 600-750 cal/hr. The more I do it, the more calories it burns.
  • lina1131
    lina1131 Posts: 2,246 Member
    I burned 600 calories jogging/walking 4.5 miles today.
  • essequamvideri
    essequamvideri Posts: 5
    In 40 minutes you can burn over 500 calories by running at 6.0. Anything that consumes A LOT of oxygen.
  • MyM0wM0w
    MyM0wM0w Posts: 2,008 Member
    Swimming.
  • LisaGod85
    LisaGod85 Posts: 47 Member
    I can do 500 calories in 30 minutes of weight training and 15 mins of cardio :) Weights are the best!
  • SJ46
    SJ46 Posts: 407 Member
    Do something new and work as intensely as you can, perhaps in intervals.
  • dangerxbadger
    dangerxbadger Posts: 396 Member
    Lift heavy. Run fast.
  • granny_82
    granny_82 Posts: 1
    The elliptical one hour can burn 500 calories
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
    I've heard that purposeful exercise burns calories. I don't have any peer-reviewed studies to back this up though.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I've burned about 600 calories since 6AM just sitting here at my desk.

    Any particular reason you need an exercise to burn 500-1000 calories? Don't you have a deficit baked into your diet? I assume you intend to fuel that burn by eating back those calories right.
  • lika50
    lika50 Posts: 140 Member
    50 or so minutes of Tae Bo should do the trick...
  • AliciaStinger
    AliciaStinger Posts: 402 Member
    If there's somewhere in your community where you can go swimming this time of year, I forget how much an hour of swimming burns, but it's up there. Same for biking (real biking, not on a machine). Good luck!
  • Ivey05131980
    Ivey05131980 Posts: 1,118 Member
    ZUMBA!!!!! I burn 900ish every time!!
  • mrs_schultz2012
    mrs_schultz2012 Posts: 395 Member
    I burn about 500 in 45 mins of biking/stationary bike
  • Sunarian
    Sunarian Posts: 18 Member
    Database shows moderate jumping rope for 35 minutes is about 500 cal depending on your weight. That's about the most efficient burn I've found : )
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
    Im doing this challenge and need to lose 500-1000. what exericeses do i do to get this kind of burn, without spending the whole day at the gym?

    I get a 500 calorie burn from an hour of aquatic exercise. (Of course, the harder you work, the more your burn since it increases the water's resistance the faster you go.) Judging by the fatigue that I feel (and the hunger afterward) I'm sure that I get a better burn from regular Aquacize than I do from my joint disability class. The joint disability class is older people and the pace is slower than regular Aquacize. The bigger you are, the more water resistance you have, so again, you burn more. As I slim down, I find that I have to go faster to get the same effect that I had initially when I was fatter.
  • crystal8208
    crystal8208 Posts: 284 Member
    About 680 here for Zumba. So much more fun for me than trodding along on a treadmill. (Although I do that as well....) :laugh:
  • glassxxballerina
    glassxxballerina Posts: 48
    INSANITY.

    Now this is based on my stats (5'9/24/160) and my heart rate monitor but I burned almost 800 calories doing Max Interval Circuit this weekend. It's 60 minutes of pure sweaty hell.

    Even with some of the shorter 30-minute workouts, I burn around 350 calories, depending on which one it is.
  • wanttolose40lbs
    wanttolose40lbs Posts: 239 Member
    I burn over 500 doing 55 minutes of extreme intervals
  • SanteMulberry
    SanteMulberry Posts: 3,202 Member
    Database shows moderate jumping rope for 35 minutes is about 500 cal depending on your weight. That's about the most efficient burn I've found : )

    The only problem is that if she is very big, her joints will not be able to handle the pounding. I have heard of people jumping on a trampoline and getting a similar workout.

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