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500 calories burned a day?? Really???

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  • xxhannahsoloxxishotfirstxx
    xxhannahsoloxxishotfirstxx Posts: 2
    I would probably burn that amount if not more. I walk 25 - 30 mins to work and 25 - 30 minutes home... My fitness pal tells me that is close to 100 calories a walk. I am a office assistant so I walk around a lot during the day so I do not track it. Then I go to the gym and do a hr of weight and cardio training... 10 mins on the cross trainer = over 100 calories in the way that my trainers get me to do it.

    On my days off the gym I go walking or on hikes etc... it is so easy to burn 500 + calories a day!
  • Ms_J1
    Ms_J1 Posts: 253 Member
    Well, I'm on a Masters swim team and tonight, I burned about 510 calories just swimming with the team for an hour. I'm only 5'0" and weigh 118 lbs so it's not like I burn an unusual amount of calories. So, yes, 500 calories a workout is reasonable. I've seen others who are bigger than me do the same work and burn over 600 calories in an hour.

    A lot of it depends on a person's body mass and weight. Someone with only 20% body fat is going to burn more calories just breathing than a person of the same sex, height and weight but with 30% body fat. Someone who weighs 300 lbs is going to burn a lot more calories just breathing than someone of the same sex and height but who weighs only 150 lbs.
  • AllOutof_Bubblegum
    AllOutof_Bubblegum Posts: 3,646 Member
    I burn about 500 cals per hour of moderate to vigorous cardio. It's possible.
  • NYfirefighter
    NYfirefighter Posts: 31
    I burn 300 calories or more each day just by walking an hour at around 4mph (my average speed is 4.5mph and if I really wanna push myself I can walk a 25 miler at 5mph)
    and with calisthenics I can easily burn 100 for every 15 minutes

    and on days when I'm actualy walking (the hour a day is just my daily routine), depending on distance, terain and weight of my ruck I can go through anything from 1000 to 2500 + burned just by walking and the longer I walk the less I can actually eat
  • cw106
    cw106 Posts: 952 Member
    us overweight swimmers burn 500+ per hour swimming.
  • Katleskin
    Katleskin Posts: 111 Member
    According to MFP and Fitbit, on my gym days (brisk 30 minute walk to the gym (carrying an 8lb rucksack!), 40 minutes cardio, 20 minutes lifting, 40-60mins in the pool, slightly less brisk 30 minute walk back) I can burn over 1000cals. However, I'm aware that's probably an overestimate so I reckon it's more like 500. I'm 5' 7" and weigh 169lbs right now. I'm getting a heart rate monitor soon so look forward to seeing what a more accurate measurement says. I'm slightly worried that, as I lose more weight it, will be more difficult to get such big calorie burns but I guess I'll just have to work harder :-) .
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