what exercise to do to burn 500 calories

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Melissaol
Melissaol Posts: 952 Member
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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
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    i usually burn over 600 cal during zumba and that is like a 50-55 minute class.
  • Risscris
    Risscris Posts: 3
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    Try Spinning. I loose 500+ calories a class, and I love it!!
  • cyberiarob
    cyberiarob Posts: 229 Member
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    That's about how much I burn by running 3 or 4 miles.
  • carrieous
    carrieous Posts: 1,024 Member
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    walk or run 5 miles
  • Acg67
    Acg67 Posts: 12,142 Member
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    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
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    Sit around for about 5.5 hours. That's about a 500 calorie burn.
  • alyssamiller77
    alyssamiller77 Posts: 891 Member
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    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
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    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
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    I can burn 600-800 calories by swimming for an hour or so.
  • seanezekiel
    seanezekiel Posts: 228 Member
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    I burned 506 from a 89 minute walk if that helps.
  • jeffsieck
    jeffsieck Posts: 10 Member
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    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
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    I burned 600 calories jogging/walking 4.5 miles today.
  • essequamvideri
    essequamvideri Posts: 5
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    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
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    Swimming.
  • LisaGod85
    LisaGod85 Posts: 47 Member
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    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
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    Do something new and work as intensely as you can, perhaps in intervals.
  • dangerxbadger
    dangerxbadger Posts: 396 Member
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    Lift heavy. Run fast.
  • granny_82
    granny_82 Posts: 1
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    The elliptical one hour can burn 500 calories
  • DopeItUp
    DopeItUp Posts: 18,771 Member
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    I've heard that purposeful exercise burns calories. I don't have any peer-reviewed studies to back this up though.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,867 Member
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    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.

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