Is burning 1000 Cals alot?

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  • DawnieB1977
    DawnieB1977 Posts: 4,248 Member
    Iron_Feline wrote: »
    FashionQueen86 wrote: »
    Someone said to just take half the calories burned on those machines and use that. There's an elliptical machine that I first used when I first joined the gym. It wasn't a regular elliptical, but it's hard to describe it. But it had me sweating, heart pumping, said I lost close to 700 calories for a full hour, but what if that's not true? It sure felt I did.

    It's not true. Sorry.

    That depends on the machine (some you have to input age, gender, weight, height etc, and some you just input weight) as some will be more accurate than others, and your weight. Also your level of intensity.

    I've used a HRM at the gym and I actually burned more on the treadmill and elliptical than the machines said, but less on the stepper.

    Not that I eat back exercise calories so it doesn't really matter.
  • Iron_Feline
    Iron_Feline Posts: 10,750 Member
    DawnieB1977 wrote: »
    Iron_Feline wrote: »
    FashionQueen86 wrote: »
    Someone said to just take half the calories burned on those machines and use that. There's an elliptical machine that I first used when I first joined the gym. It wasn't a regular elliptical, but it's hard to describe it. But it had me sweating, heart pumping, said I lost close to 700 calories for a full hour, but what if that's not true? It sure felt I did.

    It's not true. Sorry.

    That depends on the machine (some you have to input age, gender, weight, height etc, and some you just input weight) as some will be more accurate than others, and your weight. Also your level of intensity.

    I've used a HRM at the gym and I actually burned more on the treadmill and elliptical than the machines said, but less on the stepper.

    Not that I eat back exercise calories so it doesn't really matter.

    It is very very unlikely that she burnt 700 calories on a machine at the gym in an hour. Esp an elliptical like machine that does some of the work for you.

    So yeah. I'm sticking with my answer. 700 cals in an hour, no.
  • Warriorwithinme
    Warriorwithinme Posts: 6 Member
    That depends on what your doing? For example I'm down 75LB and 11 inches and burn over 1100+ calories. This includes Cardio 30mins, funtional / strength / crossfit training. On a max day I burn 1500 calories
  • FunbagsMcGee
    FunbagsMcGee Posts: 36 Member
    DawnieB1977 wrote: »
    Iron_Feline wrote: »

    It's not true. Sorry.

    That depends on the machine (some you have to input age, gender, weight, height etc, and some you just input weight) as some will be more accurate than others, and your weight. Also your level of intensity.

    I've used a HRM at the gym and I actually burned more on the treadmill and elliptical than the machines said, but less on the stepper.

    Not that I eat back exercise calories so it doesn't really matter.


    I also wear a HRM while working out and the treadmill is very accurate (if I input age, weight, gender and I don't cheat by holding on to the rails a lot lol). But the elliptical is waaaaay off most of the time, sometimes my actual burn is only 60% of what the elliptical says. :neutral_face:
  • Warriorwithinme
    Warriorwithinme Posts: 6 Member
    The best way to track performance is to use a strap heart monitor and fitness watch. I use the polar H7 heart monitor and Polar HT 80 fitness watch with iOS app to track real performance.
  • sigsby
    sigsby Posts: 220 Member
    When I'm exercising I burn in excess of 2000 calories quite often. That is according to MFP and other means of measuring. Not sure I really think they are all that accurate. Not that many in the gym though. If you want to burn that many calories you need to do endurance sports. Long distance running, long distance biking, triathlon and the like.
  • DawnieB1977
    DawnieB1977 Posts: 4,248 Member
    FunbagsMcGee wrote: »
    DawnieB1977 wrote: »
    Iron_Feline wrote: »

    It's not true. Sorry.

    That depends on the machine (some you have to input age, gender, weight, height etc, and some you just input weight) as some will be more accurate than others, and your weight. Also your level of intensity.

    I've used a HRM at the gym and I actually burned more on the treadmill and elliptical than the machines said, but less on the stepper.

    Not that I eat back exercise calories so it doesn't really matter.


    I also wear a HRM while working out and the treadmill is very accurate (if I input age, weight, gender and I don't cheat by holding on to the rails a lot lol). But the elliptical is waaaaay off most of the time, sometimes my actual burn is only 60% of what the elliptical says. :neutral_face:

    Like I said, it depends on the machine. I use a different gym sometimes and the machines are newer and the elliptical seems far easier, and so I burn less on that than I do at my gym.

    I do think if you're on a machine for an hour you won't keep up the intensity so won't burn as much as if you did shorter bursts on different machines, or did HIIT.
  • jdc026
    jdc026 Posts: 4
    As an elite athlete it was normal for me to burn a few thousand calories during intensive spring training (with 3 workouts a day). But that was only ever 10 days at a time. You are really going to over stress your body and you will reach a point when your body just won't take it anymore. You need to go easier on yourself or you risk reaching a point where you cannot workout at all.
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