People who are burning 1000+ calories a day

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.

What's a sesh?

Session.

Totes

Last 10k and lifting, just shy of 1,100 calories. Boy those are fun days!

I burn over 1K almost every day cycling. 1.5-2 hours in the saddle at a 20-24mph pace will do it pretty easily.

So, in this thread, we've had:

My half marathon I ran Monday only had me burning 1200 calories.

I ran 22 miles yesterday. Burned 1900 plus change. Argue with my Garmin.

In both cases, a) GOOD SHOW! and b)close enough for government work:

13.1*90 = 1179

22*90 = 1980

To runners and walkers = multiply your distance * 90 (woman) or 110 (man). This equation works. Use it.

It works if you are a petite woman at or near goal weight. Otherwise, the METs required will be higher for taller, larger people and will also depend on the incline.

Agreed. That formula is quite a way off for me (5'6" and 192lbs). I track my TDEE (based on my Fitbit data with HRM calorie adjustments for steady state cardio) as well as my calorie intake. I have these on a spreadsheet so can see a rolling average of both TDEE & cals in along side weight loss. Allowing for the odd drunken "I think I drank" post session logging, the fact I'm a bit lazy at weighing vegetables (except p0tatoes) and assuming 3500cals = 1lb loss, my loss since the start of the year is within 7% of what the calorie deficit predicts. Using the formula you posted and checking on a number of my runs over distances from 5k to 10 miles I'd be over-estimating my calorie burn by approx 40% and as running is my main calorie burning exercise then I'd definitely be seeing it in my data. So whilst I know that HRM, Fitbit and even my food logging all have elements of error for me they are within a tolerance that I'm happy to accept.

That said, thanks for the formula as if my loss does start to slow more than I'd expect I can re-evaluate the data I have against it as another reference point

Sorry, [/geek mode off] :bigsmile:

It will also depend on a persons weight.. I am very over weight so when walk 5 miles I burn around 1200 cals... as my weight has started to come down I have to either walk further or faster for the same results.. also some day I do cardio aerobics for 30 - 45 mins then walk a few miles.

You could have a 200 pound marathoner walk 3 miles an hour or a 200 pound couch potato walk the same distance and, all other things being equal (body composition), they will burn roughly the same number of calories even if the couch potato's heart rate is 50 bpm faster. There's actually a very real possibility that the marathoner would burn MORE calories simply because they would likely have more muscle mass, but that's another thing altogether, and then you have to account for RMR and determine net burn, etc.

So why have a HRM in the first place?

Because the main/original use of a HRM is as a training aid, not as a weight-loss estimator. The more you deviate from the independent metric (in this case, heart rate) by adding factors such as metabolic burn rate, activity type, etc. the less accurate they are.

If I watch a horror movie or my wife in lingerie my HR goes up by about 50 beats. Doesn't mean I'm suddenly burning 1,000 cal/hour.

Biking and lots of it. Word of note: if you end up with 3000+ calories you will need to manually figure your macros. Figure protein based on your weight multiplied by what's suggested for endurance sports, fat based on your protein, and fill the rest with carbs.

It will also depend on a persons weight.. I am very over weight so when walk 5 miles I burn around 1200 cals... as my weight has started to come down I have to either walk further or faster for the same results.. also some day I do cardio aerobics for 30 - 45 mins then walk a few miles.

Walking five miles is not burning 1200 net calories unless you are 500+ pounds and find a route that is entirely up a steep incline.

At 500 pounds, level walking would probably be sufficient. 400lbs? Yeah, you'd need a hill.

Hahaha! 1000 cals are for the weak. I want to hear from the people who burn 3000+ cals on a daily basis!

Check me out. Road cycling man, it's where it's at. I am losing huge weight and eating near 3000 calories per day because of how much I'm burning between cycling and Stronglifts 5x5.