2,000 calories an hour workout..

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  • maureensm
    maureensm Posts: 183 Member
    Thats a great question.....inquiring minds what to know... Why do you want to lose 2000 cal an hour????

    To lose weight, my scale has not gone down for a while since I've been eating right and exercising everyday.

    So I peaked at your food journal over the past few days. If you are working out that much every day, then you may actually be under-eating. A deficit of over 1,000 calories will actually backfire on you and cause your body to start holding on to everything it can because you're not fueling it enough. Just a thought. It may be easier to eat a little more than to try for a 2000 cal/hour burn.
  • mccorml
    mccorml Posts: 622 Member
    Not unless your the Flash !:wink:
    flash must eat a ton..
    also he might be able to run fast but really that far doubt it :P
    food for thought
  • bainos
    bainos Posts: 99
    To lose weight, my scale has not gone down for a while since I've been eating right and exercising everyday.

    Your weight loss is probably going much slower than you'd like because you logged such things as "sleeping" and "sitting" and whatnot for a 2400+ calorie burn yesterday... Just an fyi, your in/activity level is already taken into account by MFP, you most definitely don't need to be logging things that aren't actual, active attempts at real exercise.

    I totally agree!!
  • KCmom
    KCmom Posts: 124
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    If that's the case wouldn't a 250-300lb individual burn considerably more?
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    When is the last time that you saw a 300 pound person run 10 miles?
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    My (overweight) husband finished his 7th marathon in October. His heaviest weight to do a marathon was in 2009 at a weight of 250# (he is 5"11). This year's marathon he was in better shape, as he worked out in addition to his marathon training, and he weighed 25# less....he finished 30 minutes faster than his 2009 time. He in no way looks like he could run 26.2 miles, but he does. He's pretty slow but he gets it done, 7 years in a row now! He's already training for next October's and is committed to continue losing weight.
  • darkrider42
    darkrider42 Posts: 5,424 Member
    When is the last time that you saw a 300 pound person run 10 miles?

    I looked back at the last time I ran for a full hour, non-stop. I weighed 290lbs and I was running at a steady 5.2 mph or a 11:30/mile pace. For the people that don't want to do the math, the total distance was 5.2 miles. Go figure. :laugh: Both the treadmill & MFP agreed within a couple of calories that I burned approximately 1246 cals.

    Not sure how much faster I would've had to be running to burn 2000 cals. And I'm also not sure what would've caught fire first: my shoes, my inner thighs, or the treadmill. :bigsmile:

    -- The Big D and I don't mean Dallas
  • MichaelPowell
    MichaelPowell Posts: 23
    Think of it this way, a 190 lb individual who ran 10 miles/hr (6 min miles) for a whole hour would only burn somewhere around 1400-1500 calories.... so probably not.

    If that's the case wouldn't a 250-300lb individual burn considerably more?


    6 min miles are pretty darn fast..unlikely a lot of 190 lb men run those (I am sure there are some so don't flame me on that please) If a 250-300 lb man were running 6 min mles then yes they could probably burn a load of calories but that is not highly likely..but even still I wouldn't think it would still make it up to 2000 cals because to run that fast you have to have conditioning in which your heart rate would be conditioned etc etc etc...

    Cool, I'll give that a try. Thanks.
  • blazin_j
    blazin_j Posts: 26
    Was wondering if there is a cardo-workout that can burn 2,000 calories an hour?

    Yeah, it's called wild, uninhibited sex. Best workout ever, lol! :smokin:
  • Nich0le
    Nich0le Posts: 2,906 Member
    It looks like you have lost quite a bit so far, have you considered a weight vest during cardio?
  • StartingAnewDay
    StartingAnewDay Posts: 319 Member
    I LOVE this thread! smh.. Let's me know I am NOT crazy! smh..
  • Littlefutureskinnylady
    Littlefutureskinnylady Posts: 7
    When I started in the gym , I used to think if I do 1,5 hours of elliptic I'd burn 2000kcal. I was happy. And stupid. I came home and let myself eat A LOT. The workout was useless, I kept gaining weight D: now I know with an hour of elliptical , 15 min step mach and 25 min of walking home-gym-home I only burn like 750kcal -w-. Oh well, my beautiful weight loss friends, be carefull with elliptical, cardio etc machines and their calorie counters.
  • noahsampeer1
    noahsampeer1 Posts: 29 Member
    According to my heartrate monitor, I run off 1500 for an hour long 10k.
  • ingraha
    ingraha Posts: 99 Member
    lol I wish I was the flash.
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Was wondering if there is a cardo-workout that can burn 2,000 calories an hour?

    If you could burn 2000 calories in an hour, you would obliterate the world record marathon time,
  • janeite1990
    janeite1990 Posts: 671 Member
    If you can burn 2,000 in a hour, you should probably go for two hours so you can pass 3,500 calories and burn off a pound a day. At that rate, you should hit your target weight soon after you are embalmed.
  • Bella0531
    Bella0531 Posts: 309 Member
    me and my daughter were just talking about this, Ive seen some people put down "cleaning house/grooving to the Ipod" in the exercise column? they did 120mins and burned 1100cals, we just walked @3.5 for 30mins and only burned 180 or so. The math just don't add up on some of the exercises

    LOL, I know what you mean! I usually un-friend anyone that logs things like that as cardio...it's just ridiculous IMO!
  • nilbogger
    nilbogger Posts: 870 Member
    Not unless your the Flash !:wink:

    Cool, Maybe with Thermo-Genesis "Walking in the Cold Weather".. Then drinking Hot Water right after that.
    "Brainstorming". May experiment with that..

    Hmmm, brainstorming... how many calories does that burn?
  • Mr_Knight
    Mr_Knight Posts: 9,532 Member
    My HRM says i burned 130 calories in that 4 minutes...
    You didn't - you are misusing your HRM.

    A typical person sprinting all out for 20 seconds will burn about 10 calories.

    This is putting aside that even Usain Bolt can't go "all out" intervals for an hour....

    The Olympic record for the 10k is right around 27 minutes. Set by a 130 pound runner. Who can "only" burn at ~1100 calories/hour. What the OP is asking for is physically impossible for the human body, as it has currently evolved.
  • AreBeap
    AreBeap Posts: 1
    4 - 6 minute exercise burn 600 calories....

    http://pretty-filipinas.blogspot.com/2011/08/short-exercise-that-works-burn-600.html
  • Graelwyn75
    Graelwyn75 Posts: 4,404 Member
    This thread dates from 2010.
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  • Bluizflame
    Bluizflame Posts: 151 Member
    The most "extra exercise calories" i've gotten in a day was 1231. That was doing 1 hour of a spin class, 30min of CxWorkx, and 1 hour of Body Combat.

    By "extra exercise calories" i mean over what i have my settings already on MFP, which is set at "lightly active". The calorie calculation was done by my Body Media, not by using the exercise database.
  • florentinovillaro
    florentinovillaro Posts: 342 Member
    Increase your weight to about 4,800 lbs then you'll be burning 2000 calories per hour just sitting on your butt.
  • WxMstr
    WxMstr Posts: 25 Member
    Great reply and very true. I find myself as I get in better and better shape, harder to burn the calories as time goes on and conditioning improves.
  • cmurra6745
    cmurra6745 Posts: 25 Member
    hahaha
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