1,000 calories burned

That would be a 2 hour hard workout; most people aren't really burning that many calories in my opinion.

As others are saying, I'd question the need to intentionally expend that volume of calories.

For me, that's a good 90 minutes of trail running. Using exercise videos, you're talking 2-3 hours of effort.

I burn 1,000+ calories 1-3 times a week. On a 40+ mile bike ride, on a 6+ mile run or on a two a day (usually making up for missed training). I've never even gotten close while swimming. I don't aim to burn that much but most of my workouts exceed an hour. I enjoy eating back my calories

On a side note, most people who claim to burn 1,000+ at the gym are using the machine generated estimates. Unless they are wearing a HRM I find it highly doubtful. I used to get crazy numbers on the elliptical with zero output. One of my MFP friends spends 1.5-2 hours on an eliptical and claims to burn 1800-2400 calories. I did a (sprint) triathlon yesterday and didn't even burn that much.

I haven't gone to a gym in 2 years but from what I remember it is very easy to THINK you burn that much -lol-

As far as in home workouts go, I've got one intense HIIT video that gets me to 620 in 55 minutes but I do mean intense.

You tube is a valuable and FREE source of workout videos. I used to love the 10min solution videos. I still do them from time to time when the weather is bad. Also, if you use Dumbbells the fitness blender Tabata series is good.

Hope that helps

cruzmom123 wrote: »

I know people who claim to burn 1,000 calories working out at the gym. I have a 1-year-old son so I don't have time to go to the gym. I do my workouts at home with Comcast On Demand. Just curious though, how does one burn so many calories and how can I do that at home?

my wife and i have a one and a half year old. we make time to go to the gym and exercise.

Lots of good free videos on youtube. TO burn 1000 cals you would have to give'er pretty hard for at least 90 minutes.

10+ mile runs at an aggressive pace (~8mph) should be burning over 1000

The wii fit has a wee equation it uses to work your calories out @cruzmom123‌, if that's any use to you. METS are the difficulty of the activity your doing, so exercise dvds are 5, which is the highest, anything that makes you sweat alot is 5. So the less you feel worked out the less the MET should be, walking up and down stairs at a good pace or walking at 3mph is 3 METS. So that in mind, take your METs, say 5 for a dvd, your weight in pounds, the amount of time you did in hours and times it altogether with 0.48. The wii doesn't explain what the 0.48 is for but I trust it as I'm losing weight steadily.

So, 5x254(thats my weight)x0.5x0.48=304.8kcals

Working out for half an hour at my dvd burns almost 305 kcal.

Hope this is maybe useful for you with things you do about your house! Cause it does with me and I workout at home too :-)

esjones12 wrote: »

....the less I will burn because my heart won't beat as much.

Other way round. You're burning less energy, so your system needs slightly less oxygen, so doesn't demand it from your blood, which means less need to pump the blood.

That's one of the reasons that HRMs aren't great as calorie expenditure estimators, it's not always a reliable proxy for calorie expenditure.

But your underlying point is sound, as one loses weight there is less effort required to move the body around. As the CV system improves in effectiveness the volume of blood moved by each heart beat is increased, so the corresponding volume of oxygen moved around increases, so fewer beats needed to get the same volume of oxygen out into the system.

Also, with trails, and as you've observed in another thread, vertical elevation makes a significant difference to calorie expenditure, as can the level of technical running that one is doing.

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