Anybody what exercises like crazy 5-6 days a week (burn more than 2,000 cal daily)?

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Just wondering if some people go into extremes when it comes to burn your calories. Does anyone burn between 2000 and 3500 cal daily? I have never done it but I am wondering if it is possible. I guess it would be super tiring unless you are athlete :wink:
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  • sueberlin
    sueberlin Posts: 32 Member
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    Right! :D:p
  • sueberlin
    sueberlin Posts: 32 Member
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    I have a coworker what burns 1,000 cal daily....she lost like 100 lbs or so.
  • Sp1tfire
    Sp1tfire Posts: 1,120 Member
    edited May 2017
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    I average a burn of around 2300 in the summer with my active food service job and my 6 hours of exercise a week. Unless you mean JUST from exercise, then it's just 400-600 cal per session.
  • lm827
    lm827 Posts: 2 Member
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    sueberlin wrote: »
    Just wondering if some people go into extremes when it comes to burn your calories. Does anyone burn between 2000 and 3500 cal daily? I have never done it but I am wondering if it is possible. I guess it would be super tiring unless you are athlete :wink:

    Weight lifting (vigorous effort) burns 440 calories /hr. If you want to burn calories fast, drink lots of water, jump on a treadmill (for no less than 1 hour) and get that incline all the way up, and go at at least 2.5 MPH. You can also use the stairmaster; all this in combination with weight lifting. This type of routine requires a high level of expertise. I'm always available to answer any and all questions.
  • sueberlin
    sueberlin Posts: 32 Member
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    lm827 wrote: »
    sueberlin wrote: »
    Just wondering if some people go into extremes when it comes to burn your calories. Does anyone burn between 2000 and 3500 cal daily? I have never done it but I am wondering if it is possible. I guess it would be super tiring unless you are athlete :wink:

    Weight lifting (vigorous effort) burns 440 calories /hr. If you want to burn calories fast, drink lots of water, jump on a treadmill (for no less than 1 hour) and get that incline all the way up, and go at at least 2.5 MPH. You can also use the stairmaster; all this in combination with weight lifting. This type of routine requires a high level of expertise. I'm always available to answer any and all questions.

    MyFitnessPal tells me if I go on a elliptrical for 60 min I burn a little over 1,000 cal. I have been on the elliptical in the past and easy 2 hours...Not recently but I didn't know that I was burning that much. Can I trust the numbers from MyFitnessPal?
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
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    sueberlin wrote: »
    lm827 wrote: »
    sueberlin wrote: »
    Just wondering if some people go into extremes when it comes to burn your calories. Does anyone burn between 2000 and 3500 cal daily? I have never done it but I am wondering if it is possible. I guess it would be super tiring unless you are athlete :wink:

    Weight lifting (vigorous effort) burns 440 calories /hr. If you want to burn calories fast, drink lots of water, jump on a treadmill (for no less than 1 hour) and get that incline all the way up, and go at at least 2.5 MPH. You can also use the stairmaster; all this in combination with weight lifting. This type of routine requires a high level of expertise. I'm always available to answer any and all questions.

    MyFitnessPal tells me if I go on a elliptrical for 60 min I burn a little over 1,000 cal. I have been on the elliptical in the past and easy 2 hours...Not recently but I didn't know that I was burning that much. Can I trust the numbers from MyFitnessPal?

    I wouldn't trust the number from MFP. Some people say they are accurate for them, but more people find that they are quite overestimated.
  • Rogus1
    Rogus1 Posts: 60 Member
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    Endurance athletes in training do, but they replace them as they aren't trying to lose weight. Unless you're in a weight loss television competition show, I doubt many workout that much on a daily basis. 2,000 isn't super hard. I averaged that on a daily basis that over 4 months last summer cycling. However, some days were a lot less and some days would be more at 5,000-6,000. 3,500 is a lot of daily work and would be too much for me to do every day.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
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    I could do 1500 from exercise alone a couple of times a week training for a marathon, but every day? Sounds insane. A good way to burn out and/or get injured... :s
  • Machka9
    Machka9 Posts: 24,951 Member
    edited May 2017
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    2000 calories a day would be ...

    10 hours of walking @ 200 calories per hour.
    5 hours of cycling @400 calories per hour.


    While I do indeed cycle 5+ hours on weekend days fairly regularly, there is no way I'm doing that every day. As mentioned above, that would be a good way to burn out and/or get injured.

    Also, when I am training for my endurance events and putting in a lot of exercise, I also eat quite a bit. I'm not in weight loss mode.

    For example, in both March and April, I cycled over 1000 km each month (plus walking and stair climbing). But I didn't lose a single gram because I was eating enough to compensate for it.
  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,179 Member
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    The more overweight you are the more calories you burn, but I doubt that someone morbidly obese can e.g. run for a few hours every day, you need to build up your endurance to something like this.
    I used to work out 2-3 hours per day in my late teens - early 20s. Like 1 aerobics-type class, 1 hour strength training, 1 hour running on average per day, every day. It did not happen overnight, it took me 1-2 years to get there, and my starting point was not completely sedentary (teenager, no car, walking everywhare, using a bike, participating in the occasional basketball game etc). Still, I am pretty sure my daily burns were not 2000 calories from exercise alone.
    I was doing a couple of years ago every Saturday a TRX fast circuit followed by a Zumba class and I was estimating my total burns at about 800ish calories for the total of two hours. I was in very good shape at the time, and still was totally exhausted by the end of the second hour, I cannot imagine what burning 2000 calories would take!
  • laurenj915
    laurenj915 Posts: 38 Member
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    I burn less than 2500 running a full marathon. Too much work for too few calories.
  • TimothyFish
    TimothyFish Posts: 4,925 Member
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    I aim for 1,000 calories daily on my bicycle. 2,000 calorie burns happen, but they are more of a weekend thing and only when I have the time.
  • iofred
    iofred Posts: 488 Member
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    mmm, ran half marathon yesterday, and only burned around 1500cals. Would not even want to do that 5 - 6 times per week.
  • pamfgil
    pamfgil Posts: 449 Member
    edited May 2017
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    I wear a Garmin hr and I've had days where active calories are over 2000, that's total daily movement, not tdee, usually involves dance lessons, push scooter trips over 2 miles combined, walking my dogs etc. I'm approx 200 pds so that bumps up the burn rate.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,134 Member
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    Stupid question for clarification: do you mean only the exercise burns 2,000 calories, or a total daily burn of 2,000 calories?

    My average TDEE is 2,000. My walking gets me about 800-900 calories.
  • AmyOutOfControl
    AmyOutOfControl Posts: 1,425 Member
    edited May 2017
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    I burned a little over 1200 calories running 11 miles last Sunday - while half marathon training. I can't imagine doing that 5-6 days a week! I would injure myself by day 2.

    Plus, exercising that much makes you mega hungry. I eat everything in site that's not nailed down after my long runs.