How do you burn 1000 calories by exercise per day?

Hiking 7 to 10 miles would do it.

Get about 11,000 or 12,000 steps in per day and you should hit that 1k calorie mark

I wish. It's more like half that.

Trying to lose 2 lbs per week, by exercising strictly, because dieting is not working for me.

It isn't working because your goal to lose 2 lbs. a week may be too extreme for you. According to your ticker, it looks like you want to lose less than 50 lbs. Try reducing your goal down to 1 or 1.5 lbs. per week. This will give you more food to eat. When you add your exercise then eat about half of those as well. Review after about a month or so and make any needed adjustments.

As a rule of thumb, the following weekly targets would give a balance between minimizing negative side effects and seeing a reasonable weekly weight loss:

More than 75 lbs.: 2 lbs./week
40-75 lbs.: 1.5 lbs./week
10-40 lbs.: 1 lb./week
Less than 10 lbs.: 0.5 lb./week

http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/819055-setting-your-calorie-and-macro-targets

Most people do it by lying.

45 minutes cleaning, vigorous effort: 9013 calories.

This!!!! lol. Invest in a HRM please. For the love of all that is good. One with a chest strap. As I mentioned above. MFP overestimates.

I have an HRM and a BodyMedia, the HRM shows that I hardly burning any calories when exercising, for example yesterday it showed that I burned 250 calories in a one hour zumba class which does not make sense.

actually, that doesn't seem like an unreasonable burn to me, though it depends on your own intensity level in the class of course too. For dance class with a super high intensity level for the full hour i'd expect around 400-500 cals max.

Most people do it by lying.

45 minutes cleaning, vigorous effort: 9013 calories.

Haha very good!

I burn about that in my weekly badminton sessions but that's two hours of hard work. I don't think I could do that every day! Running or swimming are the best burners really but, again, it would be hard to do that every day. Good luck though, if you have the commitment and fitness to handle it, good on ya.

The only time I burn anywhere near that amount of calories is when I run 10+ miles or climb a mountain which is usually 3-6 hours of walking and I'm usually wiped out afterwards. I don't think your plan is a very sustainable way to lose weight, much easier eating at a slight deficit and moderate exercise. Sure if you want to get super fit then by all means exercise more but not as a means to lose weight. Exercising to excess 7 days a week will likely result in exhaustion and injury.

No it doesn't work (zumba). Please watch this video and Steve Turano will explain why...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6feTIQDGW4

Damn and yet somehow ive lost a ton of weight...

He has some honest points in there, surrounded by a bunch of other stuff.

Zumba is one of those workouts that first you get more efficient at the movements. So you burn less because of that eventually, depending on your skill of the movements. Dance well, probably faster. Me, it'll always be a workout if I even attempted it.

Next problem is eventually you can only go so fast with the movements. How fast can you step around, or swing arms, ect. In other words you can't increase the intensity anymore.
Walking you could add incline or weighted vest, running you go faster, lifting you add weight to the bar, ect.

And why is the ability to keep increasing the intensity important?

Because as you lose weight doing those types of workouts you burn less calories and it's easier, so you must increase the intensity to compensate.

If you don't, it will become easier and easier, and actually you will lose fitness doing just that.

It's like if you were doing squats at a certain weight on the bar, and lost say 50 lbs. If the weight on the bar didn't go up 50 lbs to compensate - you are doing an easier workout actually. And in a diet, you will lose muscle that is no longer needed.

Same with Zumba, eventually it will no longer be a workout for the body and heart that requires more improvements and the same calorie burn, and you will lose fitness doing it.
Of course if using HRM for calorie burn estimate, you will correctly keep eating less as you log it. So at least that is taken care of.

Very interesting butt load of theory from someone who's never attempted the class.

Since even walking can be very beneficial in a weight loss regimen, no, I don't agree that you must consistently increase intensity to see results. I do agree about measuring your output if possible and incorporating that in your calorie target/goals

Trying to lose 2 lbs per week, by exercising strictly, because dieting is not working for me.

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Wrong way to go about losing weight.

When I would type in my weight on the elliptical 60 minutes would equal a little over 1000 calories burn. Long durations of cardio could burn muscle as energy source.

I see a lot of negativity in these kinds of threads. What if you're athletic or very determined? Why can't you burn 1000 calories? And just because someone burns that kind of energy, doesn't mean they get hungrier than they normally do. I will tell you right now, when I wasn't walking 10 miles or riding 25 miles (before I started getting serious), and was just doing like 2 easy workouts a weak, I was eating like midnight supersized meals at Mcdonalds, sometimes even two meals. I don't do that anymore, ever. I eat things like oatmeal, turkey wheat sandwiches, chicken and brocoli. That's how it works for me. The more I exercise, the less I feel like pigging out. But when I'm not exercising, all those hours I end up spending working at my food instead of working out. So no exercise does not make you hungrier. The only thing that makes you hungrier is not exercising and trying to diet extremely hard. That makes you really hungry because you have no energy. So if an athlete can workout for 4 or 5 hours a day, who are you to stop an average person who wants to work their way towards that? Once your body adapts, it's not hard anymore. To each it's own.

To the OP, the body can do amazing things. Yes, get a bike and work your way up to 50 miles a day. I can bike 30 on a mountain bike, so a rode bike will be more enjoyable. And hike 12 miles a day. Do that every other day and do more intense shorter trainings on your alternative days and lift hard on those days. Don't listen to people saying you won't be able to do it. You have to be committed like a pro athlete. You can do it. As far as diet, focus on healthy common sense eating, make realistic improvements for life. Eat healthy stuff you like. Don't try to skip meals and kill yourself or become anorexic like I did before.

Wow, thank you so much , it is so nice to hear such words of encouragement!!!
Very motivational, just what I needed to hear!!!
I am starting today! Thank you!

If OP is extremely dedicated and athletic, I supposed it's possible to burn 1000 calories a day. However, considering that a) she isn't willing to even go through the effort of opening a link to use an accurate calculator and figure out how many calories she actually needs to eat; b) she is trying to lose 2 lbs a week even though she has maybe 40 pounds to lose; c) she "can't" eat less, and isn't interested in hearing that she probably doesn't have to eat as little as she thinks; OP sounds far more like someone looking for a quick fix than someone who is really dedicated enough to stick to such a big exercise goal. If that's the case, all that's going to happen is she's going to get burned out and come looking for some other quick fix that won't work, either.

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I see a lot of negativity in these kinds of threads. What if you're athletic or very determined? Why can't you burn 1000 calories? And just because someone burns that kind of energy, doesn't mean they get hungrier than they normally do. I will tell you right now, when I wasn't walking 10 miles or riding 25 miles (before I started getting serious), and was just doing like 2 easy workouts a weak, I was eating like midnight supersized meals at Mcdonalds, sometimes even two meals. I don't do that anymore, ever. I eat things like oatmeal, turkey wheat sandwiches, chicken and brocoli. That's how it works for me. The more I exercise, the less I feel like pigging out. But when I'm not exercising, all those hours I end up spending working at my food instead of working out. So no exercise does not make you hungrier. The only thing that makes you hungrier is not exercising and trying to diet extremely hard. That makes you really hungry because you have no energy. So if an athlete can workout for 4 or 5 hours a day, who are you to stop an average person who wants to work their way towards that? Once your body adapts, it's not hard anymore. To each it's own.

To the OP, the body can do amazing things. Yes, get a bike and work your way up to 50 miles a day. I can bike 30 on a mountain bike, so a rode bike will be more enjoyable. And hike 12 miles a day. Do that every other day and do more intense shorter trainings on your alternative days and lift hard on those days. Don't listen to people saying you won't be able to do it. You have to be committed like a pro athlete. You can do it. As far as diet, focus on healthy common sense eating, make realistic improvements for life. Eat healthy stuff you like. Don't try to skip meals and kill yourself or become anorexic like I did before.

Wow, thank you so much , it is so nice to hear such words of encouragement!!!
Very motivational, just what I needed to hear!!!
I am starting today! Thank you!

Yeah I agree, but you have to do it. Encouragement is great but you have to actually do it and stick to it.

Good luck.

I burn that on my cardio workout days.

Treadmill, incline 15 degrees, 3.2 mph, 58 minutes, 1008 calories was yesterday's burn....I also currently weigh 218 lbs, which means I'm burning a lot of calories on the incline (a flat treadmill at that speed for me would burn only 500-600). The less you weigh, the more difficult (read: harder you have to work) to burn that many calories.

THIS!

I weigh 200 lbs too, and it is the incline in my hikes that allows me to burn 700 calories in 4 miles or 1000 in 6 miles.

Except for this past week (period throws everything off), I have been losing 1.9 lbs/week since the start of July. For me, that is roughly 1% of my weight per week. About half of that is due to calorie restriction and half is due to exercise.

My exercise is measured using RunKeeper, a phone-app that uses GPS to map your route and uses your reported weight to refine its calorie estimations. My weight loss seems to track RunKeeper's reported calories well, so i believe its accuracy for my case.

I fully expect with the same calorie target and exercise, by the time I'm down to 170 lbs I will be losing closer to 1.5 lbs/week--still roughly 1% of my weight. The same effort will yield a lower result in pounds (but a similar result in %, I'm guessing). It takes less energy to lug 170 lbs around a 4 mile loop than it does to lug 200 lbs around that same loop.

I think you should walk on an incline, either natural or treadmill, to get maximal calorie burn. Ellipticals hold your feet so that your knees and ankles can't do some of their natural rotation during the stepping motion, so I don't trust them for long sessions--I think they stress your joints more than they claim.

But I don't think it is reasonable to lose 2 lbs/week without some calorie restriction.

Now, a little about "logic" in using MFP. This may be a bit hard to follow, so take it line by line:

My calorie target is 1540 calories/day, which is uncomfortable for me to adhere to with diet alone.
I find I need to eat around 1700 calories per day to feel satisfied--about 200 higher than my goal for weight-loss by diet alone.
So I exercise about 700 calories/day.
Which means daily I've "eaten back" about 200 calories of the calories I "earned" by exercise.

That leaves me with around a 500 calorie deficit below my exercise-adjusted target for the day--I ate about 500 calories less than (my target calories + my exercise calories)

500 calories/day x 7 days = 3500 calories, or about 1 lb of fat.

So why am I losing 1.9 lbs/week if I'm only 500 calories per day/3500 calories per week below my target?

Because my target itself was already set for me to lose 1 lb per week even if I didn't exercise.

This allows me to lose weight at around 2 lbs/week without feeling hungry.

BUT--it requires a little over 2 hours a day for exercise, getting to and from my walk-site, and a quick shower after.

I am retooling my work skills in grad school starting at the end of this month, taking advantage of the free time I have now. Once school starts, I'll have to adjust my expectations to the new reality of having less time to work out, and thus a slower rate of loss.

And that's okay. Health improvement is a lifelong habit, not a race. Be realistic about what you can do given your current life situation.

Trying to lose 2 lbs per week, by exercising strictly, because dieting is not working for me.

Interesting....I once watched an Oprah episode that talked about just moving first and the diet change will just fall into place.

Cross training with strength training will do it lol