I see people buring over 1000 cals at the gym

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.

When I started in the gym weighing 267lb I could easily burn 700 Calories in a hour with a little bit of stationary bike, some light weight work, the rowing machine and then the treadmill. A year on and 87lb down it takes a lot more work, running intervals instead of straight walking, time on the elliptical, rowing full out intervals, lifting heavy weights and I'll maybe burn 500 Calories in an hour.

These people could be doing extreme cardio, spend a long time at the gym (liek 3-4 hours which isn't really suggested) or are very large people (if you are 300 lbs. you will burn more in a given time than someone who is 100 lbs.) Also a lot of people overestimate.

When I go to the gym I stay for 1 1/2 to 2 hours to burn 500-600 calories. I'll do 45 minutes of cardio which usually nets me about 350-400 burned. The rest is all about controlled weight lifting machines. So I guess it depends on what u are doing and for how long.

KANGOOJUMPS wrote: »

I do not do gym at all, I do it all on my own, I easily can do 1000 a day, cardio rocks! outside only

Same here but in the winter I tend to stay inside. My workouts are usually around 90 minutes long and tend to average 1000+ cals. Full disclosure though, part of it is done at aerobic-anaerobic heart rates for a bit over 500 cals, then I slow down a bit and transition into circuit training for up to an hour to burn another 500. No rest in-between sets/circuits/cardio so my HR stays above 120 the whole time during circuit training, and during the cardio I average high 140's to mid 150's. I eat back I'd say about 800 of those calories and tend to slowly lose weight so I have to go over a few days to stay at my current weight. So I wouldn't say the burn rate is 100% accurate, but it's close. It's really all about heart rate, whether or not you're resting or just doing a lot of cardio. In the spring/summer I will speed walk through our park (many hills) as fast as I can go, and sprint up hills, and it takes me somewhere around 6-7 miles of that to net 1000 calories but I can still get it done.

A lot of people have no idea how the body works and assume they are burning many many many more calories than they actually are. All these ridiculous fitness magazine articles that tell them they can burn 100s of calories in just 10 minutes a day don't help.

Based on your other posts about what others are doing I will say what i've said before - just focus on what you are doing. Don't worry so much about everyone else and what you perceive they are doing. It likely isn't actually happening and you're wasting energy on nonsense.

I did over 1000 today, but that was 76 minutes of fairly intense cycling. Depending on how I feel later today, I might do some more for a higher daily burn. However, I don't do that every day. Usually 400 to 500 calories is a workout for me, sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. I wanted to get in enough time to make my goal of 800 minutes cycling for the month, so I went longer today.

i've gotten my Polar HRM over 1000 once. granted I was on a treadmill for about an hour and a half. Not getting in the argument of HRM's being accurate or not but i know I was sweating my guts out and it helped me break through a weight i was stuck at.

rileysowner wrote: »

rileysowner wrote: »

I did over 1000 today, but that was 76 minutes of fairly intense cycling. Depending on how I feel later today, I might do some more for a higher daily burn. However, I don't do that every day. Usually 400 to 500 calories is a workout for me, sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. I wanted to get in enough time to make my goal of 800 minutes cycling for the month, so I went longer today.

Just to be clear this is not based on my HRM but on speed and cadence. I have the HR data and having used it to calculate the calories from this same sort of workout the number come out much higher probably largely due to HR drift over time. Based on my results the numbers derived from my current setup are pretty close as results match up fairly well with consuming food based on them. I would still much rather have a power meter, but they are simply out of my price range.

I just did a quick google of power metres here in Aus, and wow! $800-$1500. You'd want to be a serious cyclist to fork out for one of those.

dewd2 wrote: »

I think you are looking at this wrong. You don't go to the gym to see how many calories you can burn. You go to the gym for physical fitness...

Also this ^^^

I stopped worrying about how many calories I burned in a session a long time ago. I follow my training program...some rides are longer than others...some are more intense than others...sometimes I'm doing a tempo ride at around 18-20 MPH...sometimes I'm cruising at 15 or 16 MPH...sometimes I'm doing hill repeats...sometimes I'm doing interval training...depends on what's on the agenda for the day...energy expenditure doesn't factor into my training protocol.

sijomial wrote: »

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.

"Nobody" is nonsensical. The range of fitness is huge.

For me 1000 calories is about 75 minutes as I'm very fit. That's measured on a professional standard power meter cycle trainer by the way.
A friend of mine (elite national level for his age group) can cycle at my maximal hourly rate for four hours - and does that indoors too. He can also exceed my power output by 30%.

The gym is packed at this time of year with serious athletes working hard, it's not all about fat people trying to lose weight.

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