I see people buring over 1000 cals at the gym

rikkejanell2014 wrote: »

rileysowner wrote: »

rikkejanell2014 wrote: »

Am i doing something wrong because i usually only born 300-400 and i feel i work hard.

How long are they working out compared to you? How much bigger than you are they? Are they doing the same sort of workout?

Idk i was like wow over 1000 cals burned.

If they ran for a couple hours on the treadmill ... they might burn 1000 cal.

Whereas if you did 30 minutes, you wouldn't.

If I run pretty hard on a treadmill (5'11'', 180 lbs), according to my garmin I will burn approximately 700-750 calories in an hour. Some people may burn 1000 calories +, but my guess is most of them are overestimating their burn.

As a 6'3" over 200lb guy, it's pretty easy to burn 1000+ calories in an hour of heavy exercise. Smaller people with less muscle-mass .... not so much.

rikkejanell2014 wrote: »

Am i doing something wrong because i usually only born 300-400 and i feel i work hard.

They're most likely overestimating.

I prefer about 2-3 hours of group fitness classes when I do go to the gym and often do around or over 1000 calories. I don't go to the gym everyday

I can burn 1000 calories on long hikes or incline walks because I'm obese. Running for about 70-80 minutes will get me there too. It doesn't happen often though because I would burn out or injure myself. I usually get 300-400. Don't compare yourself to other people because they have different stats and fitness levels, plus they may or may not be overestimating.

plug the numbers into a BMR calculator and you quickly see where it's possible. I burned over 1,000 today with 2 hours of cardio but I'm much much larger than you. It is also true that your body adapts and burns calories more efficiently. Right now I'm huffing, puffing, heart racing and sweating like a slob the whole way...eventually I will be able to go the same intensity with much less effort (I hope) thus there's a lot of variability in that. If they're obese and their heart rate is 135+ or more than 60%-70% of their max heart rate and they were killing it for two hours then yes, easily.

I reckon a lot of people count entire time they are at the gym, not just the time actually spent working out.

TerryMyfitbitsnbobs wrote: »

Nobody burns over 1000 calories at the gym. I used to be ultra fit. I taught boxing too. When you are extremely fit, your body can do extremely challenging exercise with great economy and without raising your pulse as highly as a big fat guy like me walking to the corner shop. I will be more tired by walking a half a mile than Mo Farah running quicker than most hobby cyclists for a few thousand meters. So the paradox is, if you're fit enough to burn 1000 calories in a gym, you most probably won't. Maybe a triathlon or marathon, but not in the gym.

This is misrepresenting the whole efficiency effect. Yes, you get more efficient, but walking say 2 miles will burn pretty much the same amount of calories for both fit and unfit individuals whose stats are otherwise the same. To take your example, if you adjusted for the differences in weight between you and Mo Farah, you would find that the walk for a half mile burned very similar amounts of calories because the work needed to do it is the same. The difference it Mo is far more fit than you are so he would be less tired. There is some reduction in burn with increased efficiency, but not as much as you see to think. This is even more true with cycling. Put a power meter on a bike and you have a very accurate number of calories burned, and again, the change with increased efficiency won't change that, what does change is how far a person travels since they say, are not wandering all over the road.