I'm totally stealing the "broscience" nomenclature

Yesterday morning my garmin 310xt says i burned 1432 during my 10.5 mile run. When i log my exercise i under cut it by about 125 cals. At the end of the day i was still 20 cals under. Is this helping.....hmmmm not sure. But my body fat has fell over the past 5 weeks and i am losing an average of 1.3 lbs a week.

What's broscience? I've seen plenty of junk science, pseudoscience and nonscience...! :laugh:
I also burn 1300-1400 calories on a 10 mile run..currently working on NOT eating back every last calorie!

What's broscience?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=broscience

Thanks!

I think it's important to remember that ANY calorie burn, whether from a machine, a HRM or any other source is ONLY a calculation based on previous experiments. There is not way to know for absolute certain what you calorie burn is. It depends on your weight, level of exertion and many other factors. Even a HRM may be off by 20% or more.

I believe that if we consistently use the same calculations and then see how our body reacts to the amount of calories we consume, it gives us the opportunity to be successful. If we keep jumping around, using different resources for our calorie burn calculations, it's near impossible to get a handle on what works and what doesn't.

Additionally, our bodies don't operate on the concept of a "day". So, the deficit or surplus that we create today, can easily be reversed the next day or two, etc.

I have a PhD in Broscience

You only burned 289 calories on that run!

I think it's important to remember that ANY calorie burn, whether from a machine, a HRM or any other source is ONLY a calculation based on previous experiments. There is not way to know for absolute certain what you calorie burn is. It depends on your weight, level of exertion and many other factors. Even a HRM may be off by 20% or more.

I believe that if we consistently use the same calculations and then see how our body reacts to the amount of calories we consume, it gives us the opportunity to be successful. If we keep jumping around, using different resources for our calorie burn calculations, it's near impossible to get a handle on what works and what doesn't.

Additionally, our bodies don't operate on the concept of a "day". So, the deficit or surplus that we create today, can easily be reversed the next day or two, etc.

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Exactly! And if you see that you are putting on weight over a period of entering 1000 calorie burns then something is off. Simple! However, I was making fun at the thread '800 - 1000 calorie burn' being impossible for a human being. And obviously there is something wrong with statements like that. It just takes duration and intensity to reach that calorie burn which varies from person to person.

I have made the statement that very few people ever burn 1000 calories in an hour and I still stand by that. It is doable, but it is claimed and logged a lot more often than it is actually done. Then people add those calories back in and complain about their plateau.

As previously stated, you just need the proper mix of fairly heavy and kind of fast. The follow 1 hour runs should result in 1,000+

210 lbs @ ~9:00 pace should get you over 1,000

200 lbs @ ~8:30 pace

190 lbs @ ~8:00 pace

180 lbs @ ~7:30 pace (this is my long tempo run)

170 @ ~7:00 pace

150 @ ~ 6:40 pace

As previously stated, you just need the proper mix of fairly heavy and kind of fast. The follow 1 hour runs should result in 1,000+

210 lbs @ ~9:00 pace should get you over 1,000

200 lbs @ ~8:30 pace

190 lbs @ ~8:00 pace

180 lbs @ ~7:30 pace (this is my long tempo run)

170 @ ~7:00 pace

150 @ ~ 6:40 pace

I think that is further evidence that very few people do it. As I said, it is doable, but I think only a small % of the MFP population can sustain the effort of going an hour at the listed paces.

As previously stated, you just need the proper mix of fairly heavy and kind of fast. The follow 1 hour runs should result in 1,000+

210 lbs @ ~9:00 pace should get you over 1,000

200 lbs @ ~8:30 pace

190 lbs @ ~8:00 pace

180 lbs @ ~7:30 pace (this is my long tempo run)

170 @ ~7:00 pace

150 @ ~ 6:40 pace

I think that is further evidence that very few people do it. As I said, it is doable, but I think only a small % of the MFP population can sustain the effort of going an hour at the listed paces.

Yeah, quoting myself as it is too late to ETA. Anyway, I should have mentioned that my PB for 10k is barely under an hour and when I am out running long distances for over an hour my pace is generally in the 10:15 range and I am 170. In this particular discussion forum, that is nothing to brag about; it's pretty slow. On the busier trails, I get passed by a few people my size or smaller but rarely get passed by anyone bigger. And I am pretty sure most of the people passing me are not running a 7:00 pace or won't be running an hour or more. Most runners are just out there for under 5 miles. I was talking to a neighbor that runs the other day about the nice trail system in a neighborhood 2 miles from ours. He was interested in trying them and asked me where I parked. Uhm... in my driveway. :bigsmile: