How can 60 minutes on a treadmill burn 853 calories?

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  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    I have to really push to burn 10 calories a minute. If not wearing a heart rate monitor I just guess off that, usually guessing low.
  • Stoshew71
    Stoshew71 Posts: 6,553 Member
    If ur depending on the the cals burnt by the TM reading, make sure you use a mode where it asks you for your sex (M or F), age, and weight. Otherwise it assumes you are a 25 male weighing 150 lbs. Usually, the manual workouts on the TM will ask you for that info.
  • bert16
    bert16 Posts: 726 Member
    A stair treadmill is not the same thing as a treadmill; it's a stairclimber / stepmill (like a mini flight of stairs), rather than a flat belt that runs at whatever incline you set. So, assuming you were on a treadmill, as others have suggested, you should select "walking" or "running" based on whatever speed you were going and use that estimate from the MFP database, or use an estimate for running or walking from elsewhere (e.g., Runner's World).

    But a stair treadmill ergometer is not a treadmill, so that will be off in terms of its estimate, I'd expect... they're just different pieces of equipment.
  • MinnieInMaine
    MinnieInMaine Posts: 6,400 Member
    Instead of treadmill, look up walking. There are a lot of listings for different paces. Find the one that most closely matches what you did and go with that. MFP listings for calorie burn tend to overestimate so keep that in mind - plan to eat back somewhere between 50 and 75%.
  • JauntyChapeau
    JauntyChapeau Posts: 2
    This is easily achievable, as long as you're running at a fast enough pace and weigh enough. If I run for 45 minutes at an average of 6 mph, I burn around 650 calories. This number has been roughly the same on every treadmill and online calculator I use. This is why it's better to run at a moderate pace for a longer time than really, really fast for 10 minutes. Unless you're purposefully doing HIIT or something, the longer you run the more calories you'll burn.
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    In general it is rather difficult to burn more than 10 calories per minute...that's working pretty hard. For the same level of effort you may burn a few more calories per minute if you're substantially overweight or a few calories less if you're lighter. When I was doing this, I seriously questioned anything greater than 10 calories per minute...for me that was equivalent to running about 6 MPH and I knew what that felt like...so if I didn't feel that level of effort with something else, I knew I wasn't burning that much or more than about 10 calories per minute.

    You deserve a VO2max test for so many reasons.

    Because I'll bet you'd be shocked how much you actually burn per min.
    Per my test, I'm burning 10 cal/min down below the recovery HR zone, which is 61% of tested HRmax. At top of aerobic HR zone 81% of HRmax, I'm burning 17.8 cal/min, and I can be there for a long while.

    Now being fit just means I'm hitting that burn at lower HR, but still I'm betting most would be surprised it's not that hard to hit 15 cal/min.
  • LouSmorals
    LouSmorals Posts: 93 Member
    A good rule of thumb is 100 calories/mile run. So if you ran 8 miles in an hour that is not impossible. A darn good clip but I know several that could do that (unfortunately not me)

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