Workouts that burn 500 Calories

Do the same workouts for a little longer, or at a higher intensity. Running is one of the best calorie burners.

Zumba is a great way to burn calories. For a one hour session I burn 600+ calories.

Calorie burn is different from person to person and mostly from male to female. The metabolism is different so a workout that for me say burns 500 calories for you can burn only 300. I'd sugest doing your research and exercising "in the zone" and finding out which routines will get you to that amount of calories. Record your average heart rate and if you can measure your VO2Max and you'll have a pretty accurate figure.

An hour of Zumba burns 500-800 calories. I've been doing only Zumba 3 times a week and I've been getting excellent results in not only weight loss but in tightening up everywhere. The inches are melting off...

How long are you working out for? Increase your resistance and your time. Ex- I do the elliptical on level 13 (out of 1-20) and go like crazy for 45 minutes- I can burn like 700-800 calories. I once did it for an hour and burned over a 1000 calories..it's not easy..but getting in shape isn't supposed to be. I guess the best answer is kick it up a notch..if you are only doing 30 minutes..it's going to be hard to get 500 calories- probably you would have to do 30 minutes of plyometrics etc.

Rowing machine is my favorite. Talk about a workout!

Have you considered increasing the resistance/incline on the elliptical and treadmill? That should help burn more calories.

Just curious, but why the magic number 500? To burn 3500 calories a week? Make sure you're switching up your workouts or your body'll figure you out :P

I really need help on what I should be doing at home to burn those calories and to tone up mt body and loos weight? PLEASE HELP:noway:

does your gym offer classes? I do kickboxing and zumba and usually burn between 500-700 calories/hour. if you dont have a heart rate monitor, I totally recommend getting one because I definitely found that the machines can be off. Also, I recently started working out with my boyfriend and some other people and they set up a circuit with about 5-7 different stations, alternating cardio (ex. jump rope) with strength then abs. They do each station for 30 sec straight and then take a 30 sec break. It doesn't sound like a lot but after an hour of doing that I thought I was literally going to die. I burned about 750 calories that hour. whew!

tawnyhacker,

I'm running about 40 minutes and getting 500+ calories - running about 4.5-4mph.

I have an Android phone, a droidX and have an app from http://www.runkeeper.com - in which I enter my height/weight and it uses GPS to track my run and calculate calorie burn.

You don't mention if you're using the incline on the treadmill. It's a great way to add calories to your workout. I burn about 840 calories in an hour at 15% incline and 4.2 mph on mine.

ZUMBA is a great workout you can burn anywhere from 600-900 calories--This is great for anyone and those who have Arthritis should really concered this--keeps u on your toes ,and doesnt require any equipment--check out your local community education classes or your nearest gym--

Do the same workouts for a little longer, or at a higher intensity. Running is one of the best calorie burners.

This.

Kickboxing is an incredible workout...I burn usually between 500 - 700 cals in an hour.

I usually burn about 100 calories for every ten minutes of high-intensity cardio exercise (pretty much anything after my warm-up on the cardio machines, or just running outside) so for me, 50 minutes at high intensity will be a 500 calorie burning workout.

OP, are you using a heart rate monitor, if you are going by the machines you may actually be burning more or less .. your best gauge is to have a HR monitor with your personal information and have it on continuous read to get an accurate reading of what you are burning; if you are already doing that, then believe it or not the Firm dvd's especially some of the old ones and some of the newer ones helps burn tons of calories (at least for me) because they use compound exercises throughout their 45-60 min workouts, or Jillian Michaels workout s. I also do kickboxing and run (using a HR monitor) and can burn anywhere from 600 to 1125 calories depending on the length and intensity of my workout.