Burning 1000 calories at the gym?

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  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    k528i wrote: »
    losing 2# a week is achievable actually, *

    *depending on how much weight you have to lose overall
  • SergeantSausage
    SergeantSausage Posts: 1,673 Member
    If I boogie a hard workout, I can run a 10-miler in just over an hour. That's running 6:20/mile for 10 of 'em in a row. Without stopping. And that barely puts me at 1100 for the hour.

    No.

    You ain't gonna hit 1,000 a day consistently for more than a week. Maybe two. Then you'll be so burnt, you'll never go back.

    Aint.
    Gonna.
    Happen.
  • segacs
    segacs Posts: 4,599 Member
    OP, you're the same person who started a thread about wanting to net only 500 calories/day because you absolutely wanted to lose 2lbs/week, right?

    Try resetting your expectations to something more realistic. You're in this for the long haul. There's no finish date or deadline. You're not dieting, you're developing healthy eating habits for life. Go with that. Best of luck!
  • PeachyCarol
    PeachyCarol Posts: 8,029 Member
    k528i wrote: »
    losing 2# a week is achievable actually, but it comes with reducing calorie intake. I've done it, I ate 1200 calories a day and worked out every day for an hour and on average would burn 500-800 calories depending on what I did, and my calorie counter was with a Polar Heart Rate Monitor calibrated to my exact age. Meaning, I had a fitness test to learn my true heart age, how fast I can get my heart rate up and how fast I can recover. I worked with a trainer and he said that 2# is an average weight loss goal per week. But running on a treadmill or working on an elliptical to me seems impossible to truly burn 1000 calories.

    No, it is not. You have to be obese to lose at that rate. The OP is not obese.

    But hey, let's not care about lean body mass, as long as the weight comes off! What's lost muscle as long as the scale says what you want it to say?

  • Hornsby
    Hornsby Posts: 10,322 Member
    It's achievable for sure. I go over 1k burned per day at least 5 times per week through exercise (probably over 2K on 2 or 3 of those 5 days), but as others have mentioned, if you are worried about burning 1K calories, you aren't in shape enough to be trying to burn 1K daily.
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  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
    Hornsby wrote: »
    It's achievable for sure. I go over 1k burned per day at least 5 times per week through exercise (probably over 2K on 2 or 3 of those 5 days), but as others have mentioned, if you are worried about burning 1K calories, you aren't in shape enough to be trying to burn 1K daily.

    I don't think the issue is whether it is possible to burn that much in a day. The issue is whether the tools used to calculate the burn are giving accurate figures and whether someone should be burning that much while only eating 1200 calories.
  • saeku
    saeku Posts: 11 Member
    edited May 2015
    Net 200 calories a day is starving yourself. Not like the catch phrase "starvation mode" -- that is a level of calorie intake that will cause you serious problems. Since most of the energy you use in a day will come from your body breaking down body mass, you will be exhausted pretty shortly, so no hopes of burning 500 daily in the gym at that point. If you persist, since your body isn't able to break down fat quickly enough to supply deficit calories, it will start breaking down muscle even when you still have significant fat stores. As a 5'2" woman, you probably don't have much muscle to spare. Your proposed diet/exercise plan is likely to land you in the hospital before it gets you out of the overweight range, and make it much more difficult for you to stay fit in the future.
  • VillageSmithy
    VillageSmithy Posts: 42 Member
    Your question is unanswerable if we don't know the calories-eaten part of your energy equation. A 1000-calorie workout is certainly a heroic burn, but it will not result in weight loss unless you finish your days in calorie deficit.

    Shedding pounds and adding strength and stamina call for our best and smartest effort. As someone said, "All it takes is all you've got!"

    You might benefit by reading the excellent introduction to weight loss at
    http://fit101.org/the-step-by-step-guide-to-losing-weight-with-myfitnesspal
  • terar21
    terar21 Posts: 523 Member
    segacs wrote: »
    OP, you're the same person who started a thread about wanting to net only 500 calories/day because you absolutely wanted to lose 2lbs/week, right?

    Try resetting your expectations to something more realistic. You're in this for the long haul. There's no finish date or deadline. You're not dieting, you're developing healthy eating habits for life. Go with that. Best of luck!

    This.

    OP you seem incredibly fixated on quick weight loss and burning an unnecessary amount of calories. You don't have that much to lose and there's no need for you to keep looking for ways to burn that much and eat so little.
  • ndj1979
    ndj1979 Posts: 29,136 Member
    yourradimradletshug wrote: »
    I spend 2 hours at the gym and burn about 700 calories on a good day so if you spend a lot of time working out I am sure it's possible but you'll be exhausted!

    what are you using to measure burns???
  • Virkati
    Virkati Posts: 679 Member
    OP I'm 5'2" like you. I started at 189.4 (13.5 stone) in November. I'm now 12.1 stone. Since NOVEMBER. You're trying to do it too fast. You're trying to do it in an unhealthy way. Stop. Just stop. You've gotten enough great advice from BOTH threads and it's the SAME advice from both. Be realistic, lower your expectations to something sustainable and healthy. And then get out there and make it happen.

    Unless of course all you want is for people to tell you what you want to hear but WON'T see on your scale. It's up to you.

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