800-1,000 cal BURN

Today I burned 1100 calories on Zumba alone. Keep in mind, I am MUCH bigger than you...but I have not found a workout that burns as many calories than Zumba. You don't have to be a dancer either, it's all exercise and fun.

My max was 823 in a sprint triathlon (1/3 mile swim 9 mile bike, 5K) which I completed in 1:45. Believe me, I don't do that every day. I have gotten close with some 20-mile bike rides on the weekends.

There is a difference in those that use a HRM and those that use other calculators. Obviously, weight, height, etc play a part in this too. Some/most are over-estimated.

lot of people lie to themselves

Using my Mio, I calculated that a 30 min rollerblading session I had with my dogs burned 480 cals. I was doing it at a moderate speed also. I'm sure I could have burned so much more had I done it longer and harder. But I'm just starting out and not trying to kill myself lol.

I easily do that once a week. It isn't that hard.





... But it also involves a Sunday hike that is an all day event and I am lugging about a third my bodyweight in my pack.

In the whole 3 years I have been here, I never had a calorie burn of 1000. Closest was a 2 and a half hour hiking at about 700 calories.

Only time i get to 800 calories for a burn is when I run eight miles. I get a 1000 calorie burn when I run 10 miles. But I can't do either of those in a hour.

I sometimes log a 1000+ burn a couple of times a week. Let me preface that by saying that I wear a PolarFT60 HRM but I do believe and have read that HRM's in general can be off by as much as 20%. I bet I'm a lot bigger than you though....I'm 5'7ish and weigh between 135-140. My high burns are usually over 3-5 hour time period and I'm busting my butt! I take care of 10 horses several days a week and I'm mucking stalls, shoveling, raking, lifting 50lb bags of feed, bedding and hay bales. It's hard labor but I get paid to do what I love and get an awesome workout at the same time. I also play league tennis several days a week and that also torches the calories especially if I end up playing a three hour match.

I am a bigger girl and have a core armband by bodymedia. I got one to tell me how much my BODY burns and I can get into 1,000 calories if I push myself and walk close to 1hr 45min. Like today was 761 calories just from heavy lifting and walking. So with your body frame, getting up to 1,000 just means really PUSHING to get the burn.

Sometimes i do a 600 calorie workout in the morning and then a 700 calorie workout in the evening. After the morning workout I delete the update and then at night time it will show that i burned 1300 calories.

I can burn >1000 cal on a 10km run, or on a strenuous bushwalk, or a trail run, or even after 2-3 hrs of roller skating! When I was bigger, 1000 calories was much easier to burn than it is now, but it's still pretty easy to do, providing you're willing to put the sweat in.

Obviously walking is going to burn less than walking. On Thursday I went for a two hour bush walk (about 10km - mostly downhill or flat) and I burned just over 500 cal. But my 1 hour run (>7km) this morning I burned more than that!

In march, I had a 4,000 cal burn - 7 hours climbing an active volcano!

All of these burns were calculated with a Polar FT7 HRM.

I never burn anywhere close to that much. Once I did an all day hike and a couple of calculators estimated my burn at around 700 over my normal TDEE, and once I went snorkeling all day and estimated about 600 for that. Honestly though I'm not convinced that it's possible to get a truly accurate estimate of calorie burn so I just do the TDEE-10% method and adjust calories as needed.

After reading all of the comments....it's clear that many smaller weighted people have difficulty having a big burn session. People that are heavier and over 200 and 300 lbs naturally burn more. Just like someone who is 140 lbs may find it impossible to lose 8 lbs in a week, whereas a bigger person like myself have experienced that quite a few times. Just because YOU may not be able to burn that much in a workout...doesn't mean it's impossible. I wish I was small enough to have that problem.

After reading all of the comments....it's clear that many smaller weighted people have difficulty having a big burn session. People that are heavier and over 200 and 300 lbs naturally burn more. Just like someone who is 140 lbs may find it impossible to lose 8 lbs in a week, whereas a bigger person like myself have experienced that quite a few times. Just because YOU may not be able to burn that much in a workout...doesn't mean it's impossible. I wish I was small enough to have that problem.

I've heard it argued both ways. I've heard people say that bigger people burn more because they're moving more weight (and this works for TDEE so it may be the correct argument) and I've heard people say that smaller people burn more because they can be a lot more intense.

ETA: I don't actually know which is more likely to be true, just saying it gets told both ways