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    People who are burning 1000+ calories a day

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    • Posts: 396 Member
      I bike an hour to/from work each day.
    • Posts: 58
      I lift weights for about an hour or so then run 5 miles. I have some long runs that burn up that without the lift so like 70 to 90 minute runs at about an 8:00 to 8:30 pace
    • Posts: 12,294 Member
      Bikram (yoga in a 105 degree room) can burn a ton of calories in a 90 min sesh. I weigh 118 lbs and burn aprox. 950 cals per sesh. If you weigh more you burn more. Be warned this is not deep breathing yoga, this is cardio and strength yoga.

      Highly doubtful. How are you calculation the cals burned? HRMs will over estimate any exercise that is not steady state cardio. and a hotter room will not necessarily burn more cals, maybe 10% more at most.

      Another thing to keep in mind all calculators tell you cals burned during that duration, but you would have burned maintenance cals had you not done the workout. This should amount to 1-1.75 cals per minute. so in a 90 minute workout you probably would have burned 100-150 cals had you not worked out.
    • Posts: 144 Member
      The most I ever burned in an hour of Zumba was 600 something... The times I have burned over 1000 were from over 2 hour workouts like running a half marathon :). That got me 1600ish if I remember right
    • Posts: 24 Member
      I will run 5 miles at 8:30 pace and then swim a mile....and even that doesn't quite get me to 1000! Or I will go out for a run twice in one day...the point is, I think you have to go above and beyond to burn that much...my less intense days run about 500 calories. The other downside is, the more weight you lose the harder it is to burn that much...but then again, the whole point is to lose weight :)
    • Posts: 287 Member
      Run stairs and then run some more, then walk / jog and do some more stairs. Add in a little more cardio and run more stairs. Did I happen to say run some stairs?
    • Posts: 4,317 Member
      It is pretty easy to do with a heavy lifting session and some time on the elliptical at a high intensity level. I don't normally do 1000, but I can burn 500-600 easily doing these two things in about 1-1 and a half hours or less.
    • Posts: 1,418 Member
      It's fallen off the reports by now, but I think the most I did as 1200 in a day. Me, a pile of crappy fill for the yard, a 1/2-inch mesh screen, pickaxe, shovel and a wheelbarrow for over four hours.

      That was a very long day.
    • Posts: 6,129 Member
      i hate running, but i go for long walks. an 8.5 mile walk burns ~1200 calories for me right now.
    • Posts: 1,606 Member
      I weight 219. I set my speed to about 3.8 with a incline of 10.5% for 60 mins. I burn a little over 1000 calories. My entire body is soaked after it though. I eat about 1700 to 1800 that day!
      I float between the 240s and 250s. I do high-incline treadmill (9-15%) at 3.0-4.0mph. Even at the lowest (3mph/9%), my burn rate is at least 12 cals/min as per HRM (which I keep fixed at 240#). However, my workouts are usually ~15 cal/min. I can burn 1,000 cals in slightly more than an hour (BTW: my treadmill shows similar burn #s)
      Additionally, I have a homemade desk and telework daily, so on "quieter" days I can have a 2-3 hour workout. I've done a 3,500+ cal burn more than once.
    • Posts: 71 Member
      Lap Swimming + Zumba + HIIT make the 1000+ mark pretty easy to hit.
    • Posts: 899 Member
      I'm 5'8 and weigh 248. If I spend an hour on the elliptical with a target heart rate of 151 for an hour I get 800 calories. If I weight train I get approx 250 for 40 minutes (I actually do 80 min but I half the time because I don't trust MFP's estimate). That's over 1,000 calories for 2.5 hours of work.

      I used to like walking on the tredmil at 3.0 miles an hour, but the intensity wasn't high and the calories burnt was low. I still walk the tredmil, but that's only if I've done an hour of elliptical and want a little more.
    • Posts: 308
      Masterbate 25 hours a day.
    • Posts: 753 Member
      Hop on a mtn bike, climb your *kitten* off and ride trail for a few hours. You'll get your burn on.......
    • Posts: 67 Member
      This is why I don't "eat back my calories". I don't trust the numbers on here, even if they are a good way to gauge how much exercise I should be doing. I eat my calorie goal no matter how much I work out. Unless I'm utterly exhausted and unable to work out, then everything is fine and I obviously have enough energy.
    • Posts: 7,010 Member
      I weigh almost 250 lbs.....therefore I burn a lot of calories.
    • Posts: 12 Member
      This is why I don't "eat back my calories". I don't trust the numbers on here, even if they are a good way to gauge how much exercise I should be doing. I eat my calorie goal no matter how much I work out. Unless I'm utterly exhausted and unable to work out, then everything is fine and I obviously have enough energy.

      I agree with not eating back my exercise calories. I consider my exercise a bonus towards my weight loss in addition to my calorie intake.
    • Posts: 151 Member
      I ran a half marathon on May 18th and burned almost 1700 calories.
    • Posts: 66 Member
      Bikram (yoga in a 105 degree room) can burn a ton of calories in a 90 min sesh. I weigh 118 lbs and burn aprox. 950 cals per sesh. If you weigh more you burn more. Be warned this is not deep breathing yoga, this is cardio and strength yoga.

      Do you use a HRM during Bikram? I LOVE my bikram sessions, but haven't been logging them because I have absolutely no idea how much I'm burning. Tips for figuring it out?
    • Posts: 699 Member
      Did a weights session this morning (around 220cals), a 1.5 mile brisk walk at lunch time (100 cals), just got back from my running club meet where I ran approx 6.5 miles including a 30min hill threshold session and according to my HRM burned a total of approx 800 cals. I do this routine twice a week. On a Sunday I'll do a 2hrs run and burn around 1200 cals (depending on route/ pace). The rest of the week I'll do the lunchtime walk plus some sort of cross training burning around 300 cals. It helps the burn that I'm still around 45lbs overweight admittedly!
    • Posts: 125
      I used to be able to do this. 60 minutes of the elliptical (650 calories), 30 minutes weights or swimming, 4+ hours of walking at work (pedometer)
    • Posts: 1,034 Member
      I do P90X3 in the Morning and the either Insanity or I go Running at night. On the more intense days, I can burn over 1000 calories. I had one day where I had a good breakfast, a decent lunch, and a well balanced dinner, and after I factored in my calorie burn for the day I as in the negative by like 50. At that point, you have to eat something (I had a protein shake and a granola bar).
    • Posts: 221 Member
      The only way I hit 1000+ calories that is fairly easy is a hike for a couple of hours.I hike up to a waterfall and makes it so worth it ! I go on a nice hike part sun part shade lots of trees.So I'm just enjoying being out and burning calories not even thinking about it being a workout..... until I'm done get hungry then log I go "wow I can eat!":tongue:
    • Posts: 290 Member
      I burned 1245 calories this morning biking to work, 24.5 miles.. I burn more on the ride home from work as the way I take home is 28 miles and it's mostly uphill (so we're talking 1500-1800). I have not yet done both to work and home in a single day.. but soon!

      ETA - I use a HRM
    • Posts: 13,049 Member
      Run for about 90 minutes at 8:30 pace.
      Na, I can hit that calorie mark in about 60 minutes. Of course I weigh over 200 lbs. A 16 - 18 mile run will put me out about 2500 calories.
    • Posts: 483 Member
      I started Insanity at 278lbs and got my Heart rate up to 180 bpm. I would usually burn with each workout 700-900 kcal.
      When I got down to 245lbs and got my Heart rate uo to 180bpm. I would usually burn with each workout 500-650 (or so) same workout , same bpm.
      The more weight you lose the less you burn.
      BMR becomes less as you lose from what I noticed on MY stats.
    • Posts: 962 Member
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      Na, I can hit that calorie mark in about 60 minutes. Of course I weigh over 200 lbs. A 16 - 18 mile run will put me out about 2500 calories.

      Size matters--the lighter you are the harder it is to burn lots of calories. The perks of losing all the fat :grumble:
    • Posts: 41,865 Member
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      You've got a lot of answers already. So I suppose I am redundant.
      I do it if I run 8 miles or more, bike about 25 miles of more, or play singles tennis for about 2 hours or more.
      I do not do it every day. But i do it pretty often because I usually run 5 miles in the morning and then play some tennis in the evenings.
    • Posts: 240 Member
      I change it up by doing different classes at the gym..

      Yesterday I did a power yoga class during my lunch break, and after work I did 40 minutes on the treadmill + strength training

      Today I did a hip hop dance class, and after work I'll be doing a circuit training class

      I often do a bootcamp class on my lunch break, swim laps for 20 minutes after work, and then go to a spin class

      Or I could mix in other classes. I still try to make sure I am doing some solo working out treadmill + strength
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