1,000 calories burned
cruzmom123
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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?
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Everyone is different, and a burn will be higher for those who are larger. In my 5 or so years of working out, I've never burned 1000 calories in a single workout - on my longest runs or hardest strength workouts.
It's not necessary to burn so much - doing so only means you will need to eat more to fuel such a workout. I've reached all my weight loss goals with an average daily burn of 300-400 cals, workouts generally 60 minutes or less.0 -
That would be a 2 hour hard workout; most people aren't really burning that many calories in my opinion.0
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At the gym? Pound hard on yourself on steady state cardio for a couple hours.
At home? Pound hard on yourself on steady state cardio for a few hours.0 -
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.0 -
A 3-hour bicycle ride at a reasonable pace will do it ... less time if you put in a good effort.
At home, you could get a trainer (device which attaches to the rear wheel of your bicycle and allows you to ride your bicycle in the comfort of your own living room) and do commercial intervals. Pick a 60 minute show you like, ride fairly easy during the show and as hard as you can during the commercial. Do that morning and evening, and you'll be close to 1000 calories burned.
Also check stair-climbing. Climbing stairs burns a lot of calories.
I try to burn at least that much at least 2 or 3 days a week.0 -
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
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1000 kcal for me is about a fifteen mile run or a 50 mile bike ride at a pretty good clip.
I guess I could do the equivalent of that in fitnessblender/Insanity videos at home...but I wouldn't want to.0 -
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.
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In my opinion 1,000+ calorie burns are not necessary for weight loss/maintenance. I lost 50 pounds in a year burning only about 200-400 calories 3 times a week. Do what you can at home OR as other's have said, make the time to go to the gym and exercise. The other alternative is to work out at home while your little one is asleep, you may be able to get a solid hour in then 0
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Lots of good free videos on youtube. TO burn 1000 cals you would have to give'er pretty hard for at least 90 minutes.
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Capt_Apollo wrote: »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.
There's also nothing wrong with working out at home. When my kids were small, I did intense yoga routines, bodyweight exercizes and saved up to buy myself a comprehensive set of dumbbells that I could lift while my kids watched cartoons or napped. I was in thinner/leaner shape then than I am now regularly going to the gym.0 -
justcat206 wrote: »Capt_Apollo wrote: »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.
There's also nothing wrong with working out at home. When my kids were small, I did intense yoga routines, bodyweight exercizes and saved up to buy myself a comprehensive set of dumbbells that I could lift while my kids watched cartoons or napped. I was in thinner/leaner shape then than I am now regularly going to the gym.
except you know, it's not efficient.
Most people don't care about efficiency though.
You're in thinner/leaner shape then because you're carrying extra (comparatively) bodyfat now.0 -
The elliptical tells me I burn about 800-900 calories after an hour (I'm 195lbs). I always it's assume it's overestimating, so my guess is I'd at least need 1.5-2 hours to hit a 1000 calorie burn.0
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10+ mile runs at an aggressive pace (~8mph) should be burning over 10000
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10+ mile runs at an aggressive pace (~8mph) should be burning over 1000
Took me 13.2 miles run yesterday and I didn't even crack 1000 calories according to my HRM. This was running at an 8min/mi (7.5mph). It really does depend on how big you are and how efficient your "engine" is.
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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 :-)0 -
A 6 mile trail run burns 1200 calories for me. I've done that followed by a PT session and burned over 2k calories in one day doing 2.5 hours of workouts. That was according to my HR monitor. The more weight I lose and the better in shape I get the less I will burn because my heart won't beat as much.
Don't worry about what other people are doing, losing, eating logging, burning, etc. They can lie SO easily! Focus on you. If you are consistent in logging and keeping a deficit you will lose weight. You do NOT have to do intense exercise to lose weight. You just need to have a deficit!0 -
....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.0 -
1200cal for 6 miles? How long were you running and what was your average heart rate over that time period? That seems quite excessive/0
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I tell people I'm a millionaire. Doesn't mean it's true.0
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It is so very dependent on effort (speed, etc) and bodyweight. For me, at 130 lbs, I would have to go a very long time to burn that much. a 3 mile (30-40 minute) run for me burns around 300 calories. I am always skeptical about burns above 600 or so, unless they are for a really long time.0
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1200cal for 6 miles? How long were you running and what was your average heart rate over that time period? That seems quite excessive/
@glevisno Avg heart rate was 178. Max 196. Took me just under an hour and a half. It was a 10k trail race up, down and around a snow covered mountain to be more accurate...I'm 188, 24yo, 5'8.
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I supposedly burned over 1600 calories snowshoeing this weekend according to MFP...but I was doing it for 3.5 hours. Not something most of us are going to do a few times a week or even every weekend. (not unless I win the lottery and don't need a day job. Then I'd be happy to spend hours in the woods more often!)0
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MeanderingMammal 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.
@MeanderingMammal Thanks for the clarification. I didn't know the technical terms, just the jist. Now I do And yes, as stated above this wasn't a stroll through the park lol. I def burn a few hundred less on flatter courses without snow. Those number were in my head from the race I did two weekends ago. 0 -
It either takes alot of time or really really hard effort. Unless you have something you really want to do to rack up those burns (i.e. training for distance running or biking) there is no need to push for that. Watch what you eat, that is what really controls the weight loss.
Also, depending, they may just not realize they are severly overestimating their burns.0 -
www.fitnessblender.com have workouts that they say burn 1000. they usually last about an hour and a half, although they took me a lot longer! They are pretty brutal, so if you have the time I'd recommend those0
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1200cal for 6 miles? How long were you running and what was your average heart rate over that time period? That seems quite excessive/
@glevisno Avg heart rate was 178. Max 196. Took me just under an hour and a half. It was a 10k trail race up, down and around a snow covered mountain to be more accurate...I'm 188, 24yo, 5'8.
That can certainly explain it. Makes sense
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To burn 1000 calories at home, I have to ride my stationary bike, doing intervals for a part of the workout, for a total of almost 2 hours. Only when my outdoor ride has been canceled will I do that.
Outdoors....so much easier. I burn that on a shortish (for me anyway) bike ride, long kayak trip, or mid-distance run. To get that burn at the gym, I have to combine workouts.0 -
Doubt most people can actually burn 1,000 cals in a normal workout. Maybe if you dedicate your day to it like going on a 20 mile hike with a high elevation gain....
Machine estimates will vary pretty wildly depending on type of machine, brand etc. For instance, this morning I did the endless stair climb machine and it told me I burned about 280 cals after about 30 mins at a moderate pace (130 flights of stairs total as calculated by that machine). I can spend the same amount of time with way less effort on the elliptical and the elliptical will tell me I burned something insane like 500 cals. I don't trust either of these but I'm pretty sure I burn more actually going up stairs than on the elliptical but if I actually logged the elliptical cals, you'd see me put in 1,000 cals for an hr on the elliptical. Not real or I'd be eating a cheesecake very day
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I have found through losing weight it has a major dependence on your weight and effort. When I was at my heaviest (170) and doing constant cardio on an Arc Trainer for an hour (HR was up between 165 and 175) I'd burn close to 1,000 calories. That was based on my Polar HRM I wore. I now weigh right around 150. Yesterday I went for a 7 mile run where my HR was between 165 and 180 for an hour and 10 minutes. I burned 788 calories for that time frame (based on my Garmin HRM). While not a huge difference, based on my HRM worn, I burned more calories while heavier then now.
If you are looking for that kind of calorie burn, it's something that you need to get your HR up and kept high for a long period of time. Maybe running steps?0
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