treadmill???

AndyWandy10101
AndyWandy10101 Posts: 11
edited September 24 in Health and Weight Loss
Hi, I use the treadmill 5 days a week. On mondays and fridays I do an intense workout of 1,050 calories on incline 12 at 3.5 mph for 1 hour and the other days I do 6.0 incline at 3.5 mph that usually burns me 725 cal for 1 hour. Also, I do zumba during the week. My question was is this enough workouts to lose weight?? I want your input please.

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  • EDBENAGLIO
    EDBENAGLIO Posts: 424
    well are you... i know you want a answer well what do you get and keep your heartrate up to and for how long
  • mamawildbear
    mamawildbear Posts: 93 Member
    Impossible to answer without comparing your calories burnt to calories eaten. If you're tracking what you eat and are ending up with a calorie deficit, you'll lose weight. Unless you're gorging though, it sounds like plenty of exercise to me. The only thing I would suggest is that your workouts are a little heavily geared to the treadmill. I'd vary it a bit by adding in some strength training. Sounds like you're somewhere that offers classes so how about a body pump class? Or for more cardio, how about a step class or spin?
  • acknan
    acknan Posts: 261 Member
    Depends what you eat... You can lose weight not working out if you eat responsibly, or gain weight if you eat back your calories and more. Pretty inspiring work out regime though!!!!
  • Thenewscott
    Thenewscott Posts: 6
    Weight loss is a combination of exercise and diet control.......so it depends on what you are eating.
  • AndyWandy10101
    AndyWandy10101 Posts: 11
    Im always scared Im not eating enough calories because I also sometimes workout twice a day once in the morning and once at night
  • mamawildbear
    mamawildbear Posts: 93 Member
    Do you use the MFP food tracker? If you put in all your food and exercise you will be able to tell immediately if you are getting enough calories. If you are working out so much, you will need to eat some extra. When I was training hard (with a schedule like yours) I had to eat a lot extra or I couldn't even stay awake the whole day due to exhaustion but when I upped the food, I had no problem. I didn't actually lose weight based on the scale but in just a couple of months I'd dropped two dress sizes. I needed to eat back some of those calories to fuel all those new muscles I was building.
  • ciaobella47
    ciaobella47 Posts: 95 Member
    How many calories are eating per day (approx.)?
  • AndyWandy10101
    AndyWandy10101 Posts: 11
    see im not sure because im at college and i dont know how many calories is in their food. but im guessing maybe 1800? idk
  • skinnyjazz130
    skinnyjazz130 Posts: 18
    How is your weight loss going? Are you losing weight steadly? If you are, then you are probably doing everything right. I am no expert but I have heard that if your net calories for the day go under 1200 for too long, your body will go into starvation mode and it will be harder to lose the weight.
  • ktanderson05
    ktanderson05 Posts: 207 Member
    There comes a point though when you are working out too much, and your body goes into the mode where it counteracts the workout you just did. So be careful of that. Eat the correct amount of calories, workout at a decent rate and you should be good to go. But also remember that there will be times when your body doesn't lose weight and you may be losing inches or gaining muscle, so don't get discouraged.
  • AndyWandy10101
    AndyWandy10101 Posts: 11
    my weight loss is going alright. i started at 240 and now im 230.8. so i guess im pretty pleased with that(:
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