Burn 500 a day for 40 days

Ride a bike with weights... The higher the weight you have to pedal, the more you burn... I burn 1000 calories an hour...

Spinnng class! I especially love the classes where they do hill climbs, because it works my gluts and quads. Supposedly, I'm burning over 550 calories in a one hour class. I'm sure it depends on the class, though. If you are going to work out this hard, be careful not to injure knees, back, or hips. I was doing spinning every day, but I hurt my hip. I am only now coming back to spinning class after a year of gradually building back up to it. I don't know for sure if the injury was caused by the class, but it got re-aggravated by the class the first time I tried to go back to it.

I didn't stretch enough-- and that's really important. Stretch! :-)

Good luck!

I did 545 calories burned walking today.....53 minutes, 4 mph pace over rough hilly terrain (hilly gravel road) (with HRM). My gluts are killing me, so I know it worked!

INSANITY!! I just burned 840 calories in 40 minutes
And you get a really good 'runner's high' when you finish a workout

I mix up stationary cycling, crossramp, elliptical, treadmill and a stair stepper. I try to keep cardio to an hour at most, since anything more than that ends up hindering rather than helping. To break up the monotony I'll stick to 30/30, 20/20/20, 10/25/25 of a given machine. My routine burns between 500-800 per day.

Cycling usually burns the least calories, depending on your exertion and resistance. But you can easily burn 500 calories in 30-40 minutes with an average pace on an elliptical. Treadmill can probably hit the 500 mark in 20 minutes if you're running.

Interval training -- I use a treadmill -- walk at slow to moderate pace for 2 mins, run/sprint for 1 min (after you warm up of course!). If you are able to push it a bit more, walk slowly for 1 min, run for 1 min (beginner run 30 secs, walk 90 secs -- the varieties are endless!) -- gets fast results, and is great if you are not already a runner.

Ok this is a personal challenge to help me on my way to loosing 5 kgs in the next 40 days.

So part of this is burning 500 extra calories every day (so I can eat my 1200 anti starve calories and still keep my deficit high enough).

This is a huge challenge for me as I not a natural sports person and like everyone am pressed for time!

What are your best high burn workouts? or any good advice? I look forward to counting down my 40 with you x

Maybe I'm missing something..... but please tell me you're not intending to eat 1200 calories AND burn 500 calories (which means you're actually only getting 700 calories a day??) :huh:

hehe it can be confusing - here's how it would look

minimum = 1200
+ exercise 500
Minimum you'd need to eat = 1700 calories

Keep in mind that maintenance is just that..... maintenance....... to fuel yourself through that extra exercise (which helps in the long run, so it's not counter-intuitive to eat those cals!) you need to eat what you work off.

Otherwise, it looks like this:
minimum = 1200
- exercise (cals not eaten) 500
Your total caloric intake would be: 700 cals a day (far less than the 1200 you'd need to stay healthy while losing weight).

If you're short (5 foot or less) or have some other conditions, that may be different for you - there are lots of "read this!" stickies on the topic, with great info...... your doctor could be really helpful too if you have the opportunity to email/visit them! With relatively little to lose, you're not going to be losing 2 lbs a week realistically.... sucks when you get that close! They say the last 10 are a kicker!!!