How do you burn 1000 calories by exercise per day?

Indeed. To know what the hell you're talking about, it helps to have experienced the topic for yourself. I don't even know where to start with your post. I feel like I've just read someone say that in order to make running more intense, you have to carry a bike on your head or something.

Haybales is right however he seems to have made the mistake of thinking that the primary concern of the people doing the exercise is fitness rather than weight loss. It's true that over time your body will adapt to what it does regularly. And losing weight will also force calories to decline. So if you want to keep improving your FITNESS you do indeed have to keep upping the intensity.

If however all you want to do is burn a few more calories then stuff like walking and Zumba are totally legit. It's true that you will suffer a kind of diminishing returns. The more you do something the less benefit you get out of it as it becomes easier. However simply being active walking or doing Zumba will markedly increase your calorie burn and that is what this thread is all about. No one was asking about improving physical fitness.

It all depends on what your goals are. If you want to be a performance athlete you will probably need something with more scope than Zumba. If you just want something to help keep your waistline in order it's probably pretty legit.

Actually, I was mainly talking about the ability to burn calories, I got sidetracked when it was mis-believed that if you weigh less you burn less, unless you increase intensity somehow - or go longer.

Merely commenting that for the Zumba classes I've seen and ones have described, everything is to the beat of music, and using the weight of body and arms and legs, and swinging motions.
There is max speed to those things, and efficiency to be gained in the movement by doing it often enough, that if you lose weight, you will burn less calories.
Considering even a less intense workout like just walking 4mph with 50 lbs less weight (200 to 150) burns 129 less calories an hour, There will be a bigger drop to something like this that greatly depends on body weight being moved.

Yes, raise knees higher, swing arms wider, raise body up and down more - you can increase intensity more and more to a degree.

And of course, change the equation and do something twice as long, sure that accomplishes more than weight loss causes.

So there are ways around, go longer and do a different intense class.

I lost weight with a deficit and exercised for fitness......

This is true for a lot of people. Plus you need to find out what works for you long term.

Any suggestion on how to burn 1000 calories a day by exercise?

One thing I would suggest if you try this, is to make sure you continue to log your food, even if you aren't focusing on staying within a certain calorie goal. The reason being, the more you work out, the hungrier you will be, and the more you will eat. If you aren't paying attention to how much more that is, you might not realize that what you thought was a 1000 kcal deficit wasn't anywhere near that.

ETA: I just realized this is an old thread. Oh well.

One thing I would suggest if you try this, is to make sure you continue to log your food, even if you aren't focusing on staying within a certain calorie goal. The reason being, the more you work out, the hungrier you will be, and the more you will eat. If you aren't paying attention to how much more that is, you might not realize that what you thought was a 1000 kcal deficit wasn't anywhere near that.


Personally I find that if I am vey active, my favorite is biking for hours, I am not very hungry at all.

That's great. But are you eating back the calories you burn or eating what someone with your measurements would eat to lose without any exercise? I was under the impression that the OP wanted to create her full 1000 calorie deficit through exercise alone without worrying about her diet. My guess is that you are fueling your body properly for your activity level to make the most of your burns.

When I start a new workout routine, or up the intensity, I find myself ravenous in the beginning until I am able to figure out exactly what I need to change in my diet to get the best results. Usually that involves adding a small carb/protein heavy snack which might add an additional 200 calories to my normal diet. And if I did it just blindly I might end up overeating without realizing and then wonder why I'm not losing. That's why my advice was to still pay attention to diet and changes in eating habits and cravings so troubleshooting becomes easier later.

One thing I would suggest if you try this, is to make sure you continue to log your food, even if you aren't focusing on staying within a certain calorie goal. The reason being, the more you work out, the hungrier you will be, and the more you will eat. If you aren't paying attention to how much more that is, you might not realize that what you thought was a 1000 kcal deficit wasn't anywhere near that.


Personally I find that if I am vey active, my favorite is biking for hours, I am not very hungry at all.

And that last effect is where you use your brain not your stomach, to decide what's better. Or you won't be able to have as useful a workout tomorrow. Recovery from exercise takes long in a diet, even longer or none if extreme diet.

Unless the biking is so slow and easy it's just like a slow walk, in which case you didn't really burn that much over resting burn anyway, and 50% or better from fat too.

I would burn 1000 calories on the treadmill by walking for about 100- 110 minutes at an incline. I am just starting out so my pace at the time was somewhere between 2.5 mph and 3 mph. I would either set it at a certain incline for the entire duration, increasing/decreasing as I wanted, or I would choose a hill interval or mountain climbing program.

I did this a few times a week for a few weeks. I was eating about 2500 calories a day, so I would exercise to meet my net calorie goal. I'm trying not to go over my calories as much now ... even though, I'm over as I type , but I've been doing better. I will go walk/stand around the library for 1.5 hrs and then later hit the gym for an hour of cardio.

If you're in better shape than I am [which you probably are], then you could burn 1000 calories in an hour doing a hard elliptical workout [I used to do this in the past].

Now, I usually knock 10% off of my total calories burned reading, so I actually burn at least 1120 calories walking on the treadmill for that 100 or so minutes. Also, unless I'm really feeling like it, I can't see myself trying to reach that 1000 calorie goal anymore. I'm just really trying to watch my calorie intake more now.

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

Confused. Ive done 12500 today and weigh 75lb more than OP. Fitbits given me 700 so I cant understand how they would get 1000 on 11000 steps at a lighter weight?

Do you mean the Fitbit adjustment is 700, or you made an activity of a walk where you got 12500 steps and for that time period only Fitbit said on their site/app 700 calories?

Because the Fitbit adjustment is NOT just exercise, it is merely the difference between what MFP estimated you'd burn with no exercise, and whatever Fitbit is estimating you have burned with everything done.
And if you selected Lightly Active on MFP, then your adjustments are smaller.
If they selected sedentary and really aren't, their adjustments are bigger.

So if that's the adjustment, that has nothing to do with calories for those steps.

I swim for an hr a day i burn over 1300 calories are day doing that

Almost positive.

No

60 minutes of intense swimming for a 200 lb person is between 400-600

Lower your goal... Shoot for 1 pound a week until you find some good food choices. I drink a meal replacement shake with 24 g of protein and 220 calories...l increase Cold water consumption ( very important)... My base based on my size since I'm at about my target weight now is 1250 calories day. I walk 2 miles every morning so I have about 1400 calories to work with, but I eat clean most of the week with one or two days of cheat days. I eat very little processed.... Lots of fresh veggies and fruit. I also use nutritional supplements ...l if you would like help and encouragement, I have a lot of healthy clean recipes.... Friend me and allow friends to see you diary. I can help you meet your goal

I personally think you should reduce your goal of trying to lose 2 lbs. a week. I would set a goal of 1/2lb. to 1lb. per week no more, you only weigh 170 lbs. and don't have a large amount of weight to lose. Go invest in a food scale and measure and weigh out your food and log everything... Start tracking your caloric intake at a maintenance level for a few weeks and then once you know your maintenance then subtract 100 calories from your daily intake and stay there for 2 to 3 weeks tracking everything and see how your weight loss is going but I would not increase your deficit by more than 250 a day which would be a pound a week... Don't think of this as a sprint, think more long term. you are going to do this for the rest of your life so don't be in such a big hurry to get there.... It took me 3 years and 3 months to lose 300 pounds and I have been on the other side of weight loss since Sept of 2012 and am doing fine because my routine is just my daily life..... also keep in mind if you are doing this method and you do exercise you should be eating back some of those exercise calories to fuel your body for the workouts that you are demanding of it which will allow you to have a bigger caloric intake which means you won't need to be eating at such a low level...... Finding maintenance is where I would start so you know for sure what your caloric intake is..... Best of Luck

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How heavy are you? I burn around 600 an hour with cardio according to my HRM. But I'm also 290.

If the fitbit adjustment is the difference between no exercise and what I've burned doing 12500 steps I fail to understand the poster who stated 11000 steps over the day would give the OP their 1k of calories. I'm not overly concerned by what I am 'allocated' by fitbit as I don't eat it back more just wondering if their estimation is out.

That was someone that perhaps was looking at their own stats, and the difference in calorie burn between different step days.

And also entirely useless info for anyone else that is not their same weight and height for stride length and walking the same distance.

Ya, that was just a foolish recommendation, that's all, from someone that doesn't understand calorie burn.

Remember too that steps is NOT just exercise. You walk everyday outside of exercise.

MFP maintenance includes walking, sitting, sleeping, standing, digesting food, ect. Just a calculated estimate to come up with daily non-exercise calorie burn.
Fitbit is reporting what you actually did (along with manual corrections to what it can't estimate well), for not only those things but exercise too.

Say your BMR is 1600 and you selected sedentary correctly.
1600 x 1.25 = 2000 calorie burn for non-exercise maintenance.
2000 - 500 deficit for your 1 lb weekly goal loss = 1500 eating goal.

Fitbit reports to MFP you burned 2200, say on a day with no exercise. MFP does this:
Fitbit 2200 - 2000 MFP = 200 cal adjustment so maintenance matches.
1500 + 200 = 1700 eating goal. Still 500 less than 2200 you burned.

Say you lifted, and since Fitbit can't estimate calorie burn on that, you correctly log it in MFP as 300 calories for an hour. Which will go replace the minor calories Fitbit had.
Fitbit reports to MFP you burned in total 2500.
Fitbit 2500 - 2000 - 300 = 200 cal adjustment so maintenance matches.
1500 + 300 + 200 = 2000 eating goal. Still 500 less than 2500 you burned.

Considering Fitbit is underestimating already daily burn, suggest you don't take a good tool combo and not use it correctly by trying to increase the deficit purposely.
Bigger isn't better - if it was, why not just stop eating and get it done with quicker?
And if you bought and use the Fitbit for better estimate of what you burn daily, why wouldn't you use that info to base eating level on it?

Why would you want to exercise that much to burn 1,000 calories???

God you would have to be in the gym for like 1.5 hours - 2 hours a day!!!

I would change your goals on MFP to lose 1lb a week if I was you - Slow & steady wins the race

A) You get to eat a bit more

You don't spend hours exercising

C) More time with friends/family

WIN WIN!!! : )

Why would you want to exercise that much to burn 1,000 calories???

God you would have to be in the gym for like 1.5 hours - 2 hours a day!!!

I would change your goals on MFP to lose 1lb a week if I was you - Slow & steady wins the race

A) You get to eat a bit more

You don't spend hours exercising

C) More time with friends/family

WIN WIN!!! : )

On a hard workout day, that can be 1 hr, and appropriate as it was intended to be a hard workout day. And you don't get improvements if it's not hard. Plus I'd like to eat more, so that allows it despite eating less than I burn.

That's why some of us would like to exercise that much to burn 1000 calories.

What happens as you lose weight and get fitter and have to exercise even longer and harder to achieve that 1000 calories a day? How are you going to avoid injury and excessive wear to your joints? Unless you learn to eat more healthily and in the right amounts for your needs then you're always going to have to be exercising excessively just to stay the same weight as your needs drop.