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    People who are burning 1000+ calories a day

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    • Posts: 970 Member
      One example for me:
      6 km run at an average sped of 7:28 min/km burns 621 calories. Added to that my fitbit adjustment of 367 calories burned (17,155) steps for the day got me 988 calories burned.
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      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.
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      Bikram does not burn as much as you and many others think (myself included when i first began practicing). excessive sweating does not always correlate to calories burned.

      I've also heard this. I don't practice to burn calories anyways (I do other classes/workouts for calorie burns) I love yoga for the relaxation aspect (Yin Yoga) and to increase my flexibility :)
    • Posts: 846 Member
      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.
    • Posts: 6,124 Member
      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.
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      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.
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      At 500 pounds, level walking would probably be sufficient. 400lbs? Yeah, you'd need a hill.

      For net calories burned ... 500 doesn't get it done. It's amazing how many people on MFP are immune to mathematical principles, laws of thermodynamics, and other basics of physics.
    • Posts: 634 Member
      Hahaha! 1000 cals are for the weak. I want to hear from the people who burn 3000+ cals on a daily basis!
    • Posts: 352 Member
      You can do it if you can give yourself an hour and a half to 2 hrs, sometimes if you add yard work or something else the burn goes up more. I think I could get there with swimming or kickboxing for an hour and then some running or cycling or rollerblading for another 30-60 minutes.
    • Posts: 1,320 Member
      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.
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