How do you burn 3500 calories exercising in one week?

Annie5859
Annie5859 Posts: 280 Member
edited September 24 in Fitness and Exercise
I've noticed a lot of people challenging themselves to burn 3500 calories exercising. What does your weekly workouts look like in order to burn this many calories?
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  • lauble
    lauble Posts: 47
    BUMP! I am interested in these answers as well!
  • AggieCass09
    AggieCass09 Posts: 1,867 Member
    Here's my exercise plan (weekdays @ 4:30 am, weekends @ 8 am):
    Monday, Friday*: p90x strength training at the gym.
    Tuesday, Thursday: Easy run outside
    Wednesday: Spinning at the gym
    Saturday: Tempo Run, Golf
    Sunday: Long Run, Yoga
    *Optional rest day

    I generally burn 4000-4500 cals a week
  • JeepOnRock
    JeepOnRock Posts: 28
    If I walk 4 miles a day, at 4.0mph, I'll burn a little over that... just under 3700 calories. But I'm a big guy. I think my wife burns almost that doing aerobics.
  • jenneyd
    jenneyd Posts: 308 Member
    3 times a week I do circuit training for about 90 minutes, this gets me close to 1000 calories burned. The other days I take it a little easy
  • pkizzle7
    pkizzle7 Posts: 26
    I try to do at least 1 hour at a brisk pace, 3.8-4.0 on the gym treadmill level 15-17 on random. It puts me a little over 1100 calories with the 5 minute cool down. I am a 250 lbs so burn will vary depending on weight. 7 x's a week
  • jenneyd
    jenneyd Posts: 308 Member
    there are a few exercises out there where you burn 20 calories a minute or more. I can do this on the elliptical glider
  • godsgiftjcp
    godsgiftjcp Posts: 50
    I go to the gym 5 days a week for an hour. Gets me to 3200 a week. I do the eliptical for 30 and then strength training for another 30 minutes.
  • edorice
    edorice Posts: 4,519 Member
    ZUMBA, RUNNING, GOLFING, INSANITY, P90X, ELLIPTICAL, BIKING...

    http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/169230-3500-calories-burned-challenge-2-7-2-13?page=8#posts-2320177
  • cbear9264
    cbear9264 Posts: 6
    Mon, Wed Fri 60 minutes strength training and 3 miles at 5mph
    Tues - Step or kick boxing (a whopping 600 calories usually)
    Thurs - Spin class (easy to get to 600 calories)

    This usually gets me to right around 3500 for the week
  • v1k1n95
    v1k1n95 Posts: 40
    Depends on your weight. If you weigh 245 lbs (like me) it would be something like a 40 minute intense cardio session 5 times per week. I typically do the same exercises (boring i know) because I don't bore easily, which is jumping jacks and a higher intensity jogging in place. From there, if you weight less you would need more and if you weight more, you would need a little less. Keep in mind, a lot of things factor into how many calories your body burns through activity: intensity, duration, metabolism, body weight, body composition. If you check out the estimator for exercises you could get a decent idea of what it would take.
  • jennifer3998
    jennifer3998 Posts: 144 Member
    I frequently do 60 minutes on the elliptical, which burns 600-700 a session. I'm also doing Insanity workouts, which burn 300-500 depending on the day. But before that, I was mainly an elliptical girl (off and on major knee issues!), about 5 days a week.

    These days I am definitely burning about that, but it's because I'm HIGHLY motivated with a vacation coming up this weekend!
  • acknan
    acknan Posts: 261 Member
    first off, I am far from in shape, so don't think that this is boastful, but I have been on here for three weeks and have always been well above 3500 calories burned in a week. I have a treadmill at home, and love to walk on it or around my neighborhood or state park, so I walk and walk and walk. 3-5 miles a day. I usually hop on the treadmill with my laptop on the "dashboard" and pop in a movie or go on hulu to watch TV shows. When I up the incline but keep a moderately slow pace, 3.0 or higher, I burn around 800 calories by the time the five miles are up... around 100 minutes. It's a long time, but the lower intensity allows me to work out longer and thus keep on burning. I work out six days a week and it is sometimes a challenge finding the time, but it has really become a priority and a preference. I have to take today off and I would have much preferred working out today that doing some school work, but there was no way around it...

    Good Luck! You can do it!
  • jadiebabie2
    jadiebabie2 Posts: 4 Member
    Monday morning kimax - 400-500 cals
    Tuesday Body Attack - 500-600 cals
    Wednesday Pump - 200-300 cals
    Thursday Body Attack - 500-600 cals
    Friday Wii EA sports activ - 300-400 cals
    Saturday Body Attack - 500-600 cals (Also body combat if I have nothing else on that day 500 cals)

    I will often jump on a treadmil/bike for 10 mins after a class just to get an extra hundred while my heart rate is still up
  • amyoliver85
    amyoliver85 Posts: 353 Member
    If you do it right, you can burn 10 calories PER MINUTE doing hula hooping fitness. I have reached that number on more than one occasion. That's 600 per hour. And that means 3600 calories if I do an hour a day, 6 days a week! Yahoooooo!

    Not that I do that, btw!

    I actually burn about 2,200 per week by exercising. Maybe a little more. I do a boot camp 5x a week for an hour and then I do hula hooping 1-2 nights a week for an hour and then I also ride a bike.
  • Mishy
    Mishy Posts: 1,551 Member
    Hi there - I do this challenge. Here's what my exercise looked like last week:

    Weekly Goal: 3800
    Mon: 608 calories burned (80 minutes Cardio Machine Combo)
    Tues: 584 calories burned (85 minutes Cardio Machine Combo)
    Wed: 727 calories burned (76 minutes Cardio Machine Combo)
    Thur: 374 calories burned (45 minutes Elliptical Machine)
    Fri: 671 calories burned (81 minutes Cardio Machine Combo)
    Sat: 683 calories burned (93 minutes Cardio Machine Combo)
    Sun:668 calories burned (69 minutes rollerblading)

    Total: 4315
    Left to go: 0 +515 over
  • jerseygirl777
    jerseygirl777 Posts: 148
    there are a few exercises out there where you burn 20 calories a minute or more. I can do this on the elliptical glider

    What exercises burn that much? I need to be doing them lol!
  • JenniferAutumn
    JenniferAutumn Posts: 228 Member
    I run 4 days a week, On days I do not run, I swim, cycle, row, kickbox and weight train.
    I work out 6/7 days a week. I have no problems getting 3500 or more calories burned each week
  • mistawalka
    mistawalka Posts: 108 Member
    For me a 30 minute treadmill run every day would clock up around 500 a day / 3500 for the week. Just did my first 10k road run this week and that hit 1100 calories - so a couple of rest days before hitting the treadmill again :)
  • choley222
    choley222 Posts: 57
    It depends on your weight but when I do kickboxing I burn over 800 calories just in that day. I work out 6 days a week and get over that number every week. I do strength training, step classes, kickboxing and running. Kickboxing is my highest calorie burner for the week.
  • LittleD311
    LittleD311 Posts: 618 Member
    p90x and gym !!!!! ;).
  • gdunn55
    gdunn55 Posts: 363
    I run and that'll burn close to 900 calories.
    Stairmaster will burn about 800 calories.
    Treadmill will burn about 850 calories.
    Elliptical will burn about 800 calories.

    That's my cardio for the week.

    That's not counting the strength training I do.
  • MissingMinnesota
    MissingMinnesota Posts: 7,486 Member
    Here is mine from last week. I like to mix up my cardio and my favorite machine at the moment is the treadclimber. I have actually been completeing 3 miles in 30 mins on it which is faster then the elliptical for me.

    Weekly Goal: 4000
    Mon: 757 calories burned (40 mins treadclimber 30 mins treadmill)
    Tues: 699 calories burned (various cardio machines)
    Wed: 564 calories burned (50 mins with trainer 25 mins treadmill)
    Thur:rest
    Fri: 519 calories burned (20 mins elliptical, 30 mins trainer, 10 mins treadclimber)
    Sat:741 calories burned (45 mins treadclimber 30 mins treadmill)
    Sun:760 calories burned (70 mins treadmill)

    Total: 4040
    Left to go: over 40
  • MrsWilliams0213
    MrsWilliams0213 Posts: 4 Member
    When I go to the gym everyday my over all goal is to make sure that I burn at least 1000 calories, so if u do that everytime u exercise or even at least 3-4 days a week it can def b done and quickly
  • outersoul
    outersoul Posts: 711
    I can burn 400 cals a night easily running on the eliptical and another 200-300 lifting. That adds up over a week's span.
  • kimi233
    kimi233 Posts: 271 Member
    Wow, I must be doing something wrong, I'm only burning around 300 calories for 40 minutes of a work out, and I'm working out 6 days a week!! Very impressed with all of you!
  • kilojoule
    kilojoule Posts: 74
    burned 2700 calories today ;-) (5 hours on the bike)
  • JennLifts
    JennLifts Posts: 1,913 Member
    I do 45 min or more of hip hop dancing, about 6 days a week. burn about that, little less
  • sdgirl22
    sdgirl22 Posts: 225 Member
    Whooaaa... apparently I need to be working out more. My average 30 minutes on the treadmill just got put to SHAME. I can't wait to get off work and hit the gym now. Thanks for the motivation!!
  • kilojoule
    kilojoule Posts: 74
    On days like today (95miles on the bike) burning them is the easy part...eating back enough not to have a huge deficit is what kills me
  • jkestens63
    jkestens63 Posts: 1,164 Member
    Its actually not hard to do if you have the time to put the exercise in. Five days a week I'm at the gym for 2.5 hours. Everyday I do at least 450 cardio calories on the elliptical or treadmill:

    Monday - Elliptical, 60 minutes for 800 calories; Treadmill, 45 min for 350 cal; strength training, 30 min for 200 cal
    Tuesday - 450 cardio cals plus 2 45 minute classes: Turbo Kick & Yoga Tone
    Wednesday - 450 cardio cals plus 2 45 minute classes: Tummy Tuck & Butt Lift followed by Total Body Workout
    Thursday - 450 cardio cals plus 2 45 minute classes: Step Aerobics & Super Strength
    Friday - 450 cario cals plus 1 45 minute class: Aerobic Dance. Usually have a personal training session after for 1 hour of circuit training.
    Saturday - At home, DVD's: Jillian Michaels Fat Blast & Metabolism boost & her 30 day shred
    Sunday - rest.

    On top of all this I walk my dogs for an hour a day, but they're slow so that usually only burns about 190 calories.

    I usually end up close to 10,000 calories per week in exercise. The beauty is that I eat most of those back and I lose weight. When I was super obese I couldn't move and now I just challenge myself more and more. I enjoy it.
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