Exercises that burn one pound.

You could do a million jumping jacks and not lose one pound if you eat too many calories.

Exercise doesn't burn body mass; calorie deficit does. You can lose weight doing zero exercise, or you can lose weight doing a ton of exercise.

1000 jumping jacks isn't even close. It would take me about 27 miles of running to get to 3500 calories, like 4.5 hours of constant running at 6mph.

I would just log the calories and celebrate after X days when your calories burned total 3500.

Look at it this way:

To create a 300-calorie deficit today, you can:

Run about 35 minutes at 6 mph
or
Skip the Snickers bar

MFP says that if you do vigorous jumping jacks for an hour you will burn 757 calories. This is for a 200lb person. If you weigh less then you will not burn that many.

You need to back out BMR from that - so call it roughly 600 calories. And that sounds about right, assuming we all understand that "vigorous" means "keeping up with Shaun T".

Or put another way, you're looking at somewhere around 3500-4000 jumping jacks in that 60 minutes.

Only 2900 more calories to burn!

OK, so you have your answer. Run a marathon and loose a pound of fat.

Works every time.

OK, so you have your answer. Run a marathon and loose a pound of fat.

Works every time.

'Fraid not. Not many people are getting through a marathon without fueling along the way. If it takes you 4 hours to run, and you're consuming 250 calories/hour during the run, you've only netted 2/3 of a pound of fat.

And not all the weight lost would necessarily be fat, you could lose muscle as well.

Bonus though - you will probably lose a few pounds of water weight along the way.

OK, so you have your answer. Run a marathon and loose a pound of fat.

Works every time.

'Fraid not. Not many people are getting through a marathon without fueling along the way. If it takes you 4 hours to run, and you're consuming 250 calories/hour during the run, you've only netted 2/3 of a pound of fat.

And not all the weight lost would necessarily be fat, you could lose muscle as well.

Bonus though - you will probably lose a few pounds of water weight along the way.

I burn about 2300 cals for a marathon. Add back in 550 calories for gels, and the fact that I had to carb load to get energy, which provided all the water I sweat out, and the beer/banana/other free food at the finish line...

Its a pretty bad way to lose weight :laugh:

OP, just eat at a moderate deficit and move around doing something you like. Gimmicks tend to fail.

Strength train and eat clean. If you don't have weight use your body.

jump rope is a good way to loose weight

Look at it this way:

To create a 300-calorie deficit today, you can:

Run about 35 minutes at 6 mph
or
Skip the Snickers bar

Good answer :-)

I can't imagine an average person burning 3500 calories exercising in a day. Like many said running a marathon or something equivalent. I hiked for 4 1/2 hours with a 35lb backpack and according to my heart rate monitor burned 1,400 calories.

I have heard so many different things on how to burn a pound. Like, do a 1000 jumping jacks, which I doubt is true. Or jog for one hour. I guess I was just wondering what REALLY burns one pound. I really like the idea of trying to burn pound per pound. I know that 3500 calories is a pound so that is how many calories you have to burn to lose a pound. For instance, if 1000 jumping jacks DID burn one pound. I would try to do like 200 jumping jacks a day and in 5 days, I would have burned a pound. I really like this idea of losing weight but I just don't know where to start. Help? (:

this is why so much of the balance for weight loss is calorie deficit. Not only can you not burn enough calories in a workout to lose a pound, but the gross burn counts in the calories you would have burned anyway just by being alive. You have to subtract those calories to find your net burn. If I do a solid 1/2 hour on the elliptical at a high level of resistance, I only burn 300 calories. You can eat 300 calories in one normal candy bar, or a large bottle of regular soda. Exercise is for fitness and to help you create a slightly larger deficit. The majority of your weight loss should come from a calorie deficit in your diet.

Look at it this way:

To create a 300-calorie deficit today, you can:

Run about 35 minutes at 6 mph
or
Skip the Snickers bar

Ha! I love this.

Look at it this way:

To create a 300-calorie deficit today, you can:

Run about 35 minutes at 6 mph
or
Skip the Snickers bar

A Snickers bar is 250 calories Johnny.

If you pat your head and rub your belly at the same time for 78.4 minutes you'll lose a pound of fat.

Has to be exactly 78.4 minutes, though. 78.3 and you might as well do nothing, 78.5 and you are going to bulk up and look like a bodybuilder. That's just science.

Thing that burns 3500 calories:

Sitting around on your butt for 1.5 days

That's how I read it.