800-1,000 cal BURN

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  • Sonj1973
    Sonj1973 Posts: 188 Member
    There's so many variations out there I suppose it's difficult to be 100% accurate. Personally myself I have to rely on MFP info/database as I don't have my own gadget!... I do an hours swim and MFP will log that at 700+ calories burned, later in the day I may go for a bike ride with my son and take the dog out and once I add these extra activities it will hit 1000 etc...

    Truth is regardless of whether these figures are correct, if you use the same tool to track your calories burned at least you can monitor your progress, and at the end of the day if your losing weight then something's working for you....and if not you can make the necessary adjustments.
  • majica8
    majica8 Posts: 210 Member
    Most I've burned according to my HRM is 700ish from 1hr 20mins cycling, though I knocked it down to around 500 when I logged to account for any error/inaccuracy.
    No doubt I could hit the 1000 cal mark if I stayed on my bike long enough, I don't really need to though and don't really want to either. I'd have to get to 1200 burned on the HRM before I would think about logging 1000 burned on here.

    Had my HRM for about a month now and I'm still losing at a rate I would expect so I'm pretty confident I'm logging accurately.
  • ash190489
    ash190489 Posts: 587 Member
    I burned 1000 calories today!!! First time ever!!!!!

    60 min Body Attack high intensity class
    40 min fast paced walking
    75 min strength & weight training

    So basically took 3 HOURS all in one go! Crazy= yes. I've never done this before though.

    I usually burn between 300-700 depending on what I do & my intensity levels whilst doing it (on average 400-500cals)
  • griff7809
    griff7809 Posts: 611 Member
    There is no way anyone is burning 800-1000 calories in an hour, I don't care if you run at 300 mph for an entire hour, it isn't happening and I don't care what your little HRM says :D

    Scientific references or is this personal opinion? I personally don't trust what MFP says I burn when I input an exercise I feel it is inflated. For example, I ran 5.5 miles last night at a nice slow pace of 11 min mile. MFP says I burned over 900 cals. Is there a formula I don't know about so I can calculate my calorie burn for myself. Of course even with this formula, it will still be a guess.
  • griff7809
    griff7809 Posts: 611 Member
    There is no way anyone is burning 800-1000 calories in an hour, I don't care if you run at 300 mph for an entire hour, it isn't happening and I don't care what your little HRM says :D

    Scientific references or is this personal opinion? I personally don't trust what MFP says I burn when I input an exercise I feel it is inflated. For example, I ran 5.5 miles last night at a nice slow pace of 11 min mile. MFP says I burned over 900 cals. Is there a formula I don't know about so I can calculate my calorie burn for myself. Of course even with this formula, it will still be a guess.

    EDIT, Never mind, I did my own research.
  • maegmez
    maegmez Posts: 341 Member
    Great thinking.....If I can't burn 1000 calories then nobody can.

    There is absolutely no proof of how many calories are burned for each person unless they are hooked up to a machine. When I weighed over 200 pounds and ran, well almost jogged for an hour, I would burn just over 1200 calories. It was hard and my breathing was heavy but I did it to burn calories. Now that I'm 157 pounds, I only burn about 700 calories running at 6.2 mph for an hour. My RHR has dropped to 46 over this past year due to all the running. I have to work harder and harder now to get my heart rate up.

    I use a Suunto Ambit2, up from a Polar RCX5 w/GPS. I burn about 200 calories less than my Polar gave me but with the Polars, most have a fit test and if you just agree to all changes after, it will alter your max heart rate. Do not change your max heart rate or it will give you very inflated calorie burns.

    I went walking today, was walking at 4.5 mph pushing jogging buggy and carrying groceries on my back on the way back home. I was walking fast to keep up with my child on a scooter. My heart rate never went over 110 and I got a calorie burn of 413 for 129 mins. About 20 mins of that was constant moving in the store and about 10mins checkout. For that same walk with my Polar, I would have been given over 600!

    We are all different and nobody here can say how many calories one is burning. I get its all an estimation but I don't eat most of my exercise calories back anyway.

    And one thing to remember, your body gets efficient at doing the same exercise and will burn less so burning low calories for a runner is common. I bet if you upped your pace, you would burn more.
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    There's this website I ABSOLUTELY LOVE called fitnessblender and they have these 1000 calorie workout videos. I've done it a couple of times. I find it both challenging, dreadful and fun. I would not suggest it for beginners (nearly killed me!)

    Just be forewarned--there is NO WAY those workouts burn 1000 calories. I looked closely at some of the workouts a few weeks ago and they are in the 600-700 range at best.

    That's not a criticism of the workouts themselves--they were fine as far as the quality of the movements, structure of the workout, etc. But the calorie numbers are as inflated as anything I have ever seen.
  • jeannie0312
    jeannie0312 Posts: 35 Member
    I've been wanting to try Zumba. Do you take classes or do it at home?
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    So the calculations are incorrect on treadmills and what not? When i started at 250lbs, i can put the treadmil at 15% incline, set the speed to 4.0MPH & i would hit 1000 around 42 mins. If i could hang in for the last 18 mins, it would be around 1300-1400 calories in that 1 hour.

    If you can input weight, and the treadmill is a decent commercial one (e.g. Life Fitness, Precor, etc), then the calorie counts will be pretty accurate.

    But only if you do not hold on to the handrails.

    At the speed/elevation combo you described, handrail support will result in an overestimation of calories burned by 40%-60%. Even folks in excellent aerobic condition would have trouble sustaining that effort for more than 2-5 min w/out handrail support.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    People who are burning 1,000 calories per day with exercise are usually overestimating their burn. Most likely they're using a database and inputting an intensity level that they're not really at...they just think they are because they're out of shape. It's really, really, really hard to burn more than about 10 calories per minute...and that's working it and not really sustainable with long sessions of steady state cardio.
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    Sometimes it seems like "everybody is different" because we get so many varied sources of information.

    There is also a difference in how hard people can work at different exercise activities--i.e. differences in fitness level.

    But, there is actually not that much difference in how different people burn calories,esp for simple activities such as walking or running.

    Calories burned = workload intensity X body weight.

    Height, age, heart rate, fitness level, even gender make little difference. Those factors are necessary for heart rate monitors, in order to mathematically try to reduce the wide variability inherent in HRM calorie estimates, but that's just evidence of the inherent inaccuracy of HRMs--it has nothing to do with how the body works.

    If 100 people run at 10:00 per mile, they are working at a workload intensity of ~10 METs. Their calorie burn per hour will be 10 METs times their body weight (in KG).

    Again, people get such different results not because they are so "unique" but because the accuracy of the common sources--HRMs, data tables, Fitbits, etc--varies so widely (and because the accuracy of the set up varies widely as well).

    For most people, sustained exercise intensity will fall in the range of 5-9 METs. In many cases, one could just multiply body wt (kg) times 5 and times 9 and get a calories/hour range that is as accurate as anything out there.
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
    People who are burning 1,000 calories per day with exercise are usually overestimating their burn. Most likely they're using a database and inputting an intensity level that they're not really at...they just think they are because they're out of shape. It's really, really, really hard to burn more than about 10 calories per minute...and that's working it and not really sustainable with long sessions of steady state cardio.

    Really? I burn 1500+ a day. Not over estimating anything either, that's just average for me. It's not hard to burn it either. I'm not outta shape, in fact I'm fit. I burn 10 cals every 30 seconds when I'm doing a nice HIIT. That can be for 90 mins I do that. So that alone would give me 5400 burn. But then my HRM is always playing up & going to 00bpm so that means it's not picking up perhaps a quarter of my workout.

    Even then I'll only log part of that, cause I really dont care all that much about it anymore. Between my workout & then walking all day I just don't bother logging my workout anymore.
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    People who are burning 1,000 calories per day with exercise are usually overestimating their burn. Most likely they're using a database and inputting an intensity level that they're not really at...they just think they are because they're out of shape. It's really, really, really hard to burn more than about 10 calories per minute...and that's working it and not really sustainable with long sessions of steady state cardio.

    I'm not really super fit anymore (compared to my 20s), and I have been metabolically tested at 16-18 cals/min--at running speeds that I could easily sustain for an hour. I am reasonably fit aerobically for my age, but hardly anything special.
  • RobynLB83
    RobynLB83 Posts: 626 Member
    You have to be pretty fit to accomplish a 800 - 1000 calorie burn. As in, you have to be able to run about 10 miles or do something requiring equivalent conditioning. If you're not there yet, be prepared to spend the entire day hiking or cycling at a lower intensity, or do 2 more intense workouts ( both an am and a pm run, for example).
  • RobynLB83
    RobynLB83 Posts: 626 Member
    BTW. To the person who said above 10 cal per minute is not sustainable-- that's just dead wrong. That's a pretty average steady state cardio burn for jogging for an average weight woman. A man or a heavier or more muscular woman is going to burn more simply jogging, and that's without pushing it.
  • tappae
    tappae Posts: 568 Member
    I'm about to head out for a 2000+ calorie run. It should take me about 4 hours, since I'll be going slow. I'll also eat about 1000 calories during.
  • 21july2013
    21july2013 Posts: 6
    Totally agree ... people tend to over estimate how much calories they burn ...
    but also is working out all about burning calories? what happened to good old being healthy, strong and fit :smile:
  • mohanj
    mohanj Posts: 381 Member
    I burn in an hour :
    Elliptical : 941,
    Zumba : 595
    Swim : 600

    I do 2 hours of Cardio on an average daily.
  • antgerv
    antgerv Posts: 1
    I am training for a marathon, so when I go on a long run, I can burn well over 1000 calories. Today I will be completing an 8 mile run, which comes to about 1 hour and 28 minutes at an 11 minute pace, which is about 1150 burned, and when I go on the ridiculously long training runs, such as 16 miles, it might take almost 3 hours, but I am burning almost 2500 calories.
  • lexoxoc
    lexoxoc Posts: 135 Member
    For me those burns only happen when I'm in the gym for longer than and hour and fifteen minutes. Yesterday I worked out an hour and 35 minutes and got to 815 cals burned. I ran for 55 minutes and did 30 minutes of lifting and 20 minutes of serious stretching.
  • Velum_cado
    Velum_cado Posts: 1,608 Member
    They probably don't. MFP, and a lot of HRMs overestimate calories. You're very unlikely to burn more than 10 calories a minute no matter what you're doing, or how big you are.
  • Sizethree4Ever
    Sizethree4Ever Posts: 120 Member
    Most of those people who say they burn 1,000+ calories are way over estimating! And doing that doesn't help you lose weight, it just gives you an excuse to eat more!! For example, at 135 pounds it takes me an entire half marathon to burn over 1,000 calories, that's 2 straight hours of running! There is no way that you can burn close to that number in less than an hour, even at 200 pounds!

    There are times when I walk 3-5 miles on a treadmill and burn 800- 1000 calories, not sure how accurate those numbers are, but It doesn`t matter to me, because I don`t eat back any of my exercise calories.
  • ladyicye50
    ladyicye50 Posts: 34 Member
    I burned 950 calories doing kickboxing this morning. It is possible. I did a 65 min. workout and my HRM calculates my calories burned.
  • DavidHusky
    DavidHusky Posts: 112 Member
    My HRM says I burned 1950 during an 11 mile run this morning in almost exactly 2 hours, but when I plug the numbers into the running world calculator (weight, distance and time is what they use) it says something like 1500, so I think my max heart rate must be higher than 220-age that is estimated on endomondo (App that my HRM syncs with). I think if I ran my personal record pace for an hour I might be able to burn 1000 calories since I still have some weight to lose (and have short legs :p).
  • ewrob
    ewrob Posts: 136 Member
    I've burned several thousand calories by my estimation going on a 50 mile bike ride. (and being overweight)

    I go on 14-30 mile rides nearly every day.

    Why wouldn't that be accurate? It took 4 and a half hours of continuous exertion. That's why I love cycling, it is something you can sustain for long periods of time and it burns a ton of calories. I just bought a road bike.
  • SadFaerie
    SadFaerie Posts: 243 Member
    I just checked my data for this year and overall I burned 108648 calories in 147hours. That would set me at about 12calories/minute. Uh... I don't think so. I'm still going to use HRM, but only to evaluate my performance, for calorie counting I go by a rule of thumb: if I'm losing, it's deficit, if I'm gaining - surplus.
  • arc918
    arc918 Posts: 2,037 Member
    Just back from a 14 mile run - took 2:03 (so ~ 8:48 avg pace). I'm training for my 27th marathon.

    ~ 1,800 calories for those who believe in the laws of physics

    342 calories for those with a PhD in broscience...
  • Zekela
    Zekela Posts: 634 Member
    People who are burning 1,000 calories per day with exercise are usually overestimating their burn. Most likely they're using a database and inputting an intensity level that they're not really at...they just think they are because they're out of shape. It's really, really, really hard to burn more than about 10 calories per minute...and that's working it and not really sustainable with long sessions of steady state cardio.
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    Really dude??? You need to get real here. Look at me! Do I look like I'm overestimating my calories burnt? I'm 116 IBS and not gaining (sometimes Im losing) so I'm definitely not overerestimating jack! Just because you aren't fit enough to do it, doesn't mean people like me can't.
  • Zekela
    Zekela Posts: 634 Member
    Just back from a 14 mile run - took 2:03 (so ~ 8:48 avg pace). I'm training for my 27th marathon.

    ~ 1,800 calories for those who believe in the laws of physics

    342 calories for those with a PhD in broscience...

    Hahahaha... love this!!! Oh and BTW, with all of you who earned a PhD in bro science... you can check out my diary on June thee 11 where I burnt in excess of 3000 cals that day and lost about 2 pounds and wasn't able to put it on back for another 3 weeks. Oh my, I must have underestimated something... (that was sarcastically written BTW).
  • FitbitVanessa
    FitbitVanessa Posts: 37 Member
    Just back from a 14 mile run - took 2:03 (so ~ 8:48 avg pace). I'm training for my 27th marathon.

    ~ 1,800 calories for those who believe in the laws of physics

    342 calories for those with a PhD in broscience...

    You rock!

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