Burn 900 calories on 94minutes eliptical
tigerblood6
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Anyone had experience this? My feet feel sore later.
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Why are you exercising so much? Plus in your other thread you said you're eating 1100 calories. You're going to end up in a hospital if you keep overy exercising and eating so little.8
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How are you measuring that burn? From your stats, you're pretty small so it's doubtful that you're burning that much.4
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My calorie intake is 1200 perday.
So if i burn 900calories on the elliptical I can eat excess of 700-900 calories during the day.
Also I read somewhere exercise until muscle sore is good which means I am building muscle.8 -
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singingflutelady wrote: »
and especially especially on 1200 cals.7 -
"I read somewhere..." three of the most frightening words in the English language.19
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OP - for reference, I'm a 6'1" 200 pound male and I will burn about 500 calories in a light to moderate hour on the elliptical (HR around 75% of max). My theoretical 90 minute burn would be about 750.
You can scale your results accordingly for a ballpark. For example, if you weigh 150 pounds (75% of my weight), then it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume that your 90 minute elliptical burn would be somewhere in the mid-500's. As other posters have stated above, machine calorie totals can be off by a good 30 to 40 percent.
Here's the rub...you don't exercise until you are sore. You should only exercise until you are tired/muscle fatigued. The good kind of sore will happen a couple of hours or the day after your workout as your muscles rebuild themselves. The good kind of sore will be deep in your muscles and won't cause any joint discomfort, etc.
The bad kind of sore happens while you are working out or manifests in your joints. This has nothing to do with muscle rebuilding and is more a sign of something physically wrong (either overwork, excess strain, chafing, or otherwise).
If 90+ minutes on the elliptical is causing you pain while you work out or if you feel any joint pain afterwards, don't do it that long.11 -
Highly unlikely that you have the aerobic fitness to burn that much.
Sore feet doesn't equal muscle building!2 -
My feet would be sore from 90 min of cardio too... doesn't mean I built any muscle, most likely the opposite since you are in a deficit. You *usually* build muscle by strength training and eating at least maintenance calories.1
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My calorie intake is 1200 perday.
So if i burn 900calories on the elliptical I can eat excess of 700-900 calories during the day.
Also I read somewhere exercise until muscle sore is good which means I am building muscle.
Wait. So just so I'm reading this right. You're thinking that you can eat 1200 calories a day only if you burn 900 on the elliptical? (And frankly, I'm side-eyeing the idea of burning 10 calories a minute on an elliptical, but that's neither here nor there.)
Please tell me that's not what you meant.
If it is: Get thee to therapy.3 -
That would wreck my knees. I do 30 min elliptical, 30 min weights. I don't burn that many cals, not even close, but I'm short and middle aged so it is what it is.
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collectingblues wrote: »
Wait. So just so I'm reading this right. You're thinking that you can eat 1200 calories a day only if you burn 900 on the elliptical? (And frankly, I'm side-eyeing the idea of burning 10 calories a minute on an elliptical, but that's neither here nor there.)
Fwiw my experience of losing weight, hence eating in a deficit, was that it was psychologically easier to net 1600 of I was running off 300 and eating 1900 than it was just reading 1600. No real difference in CICO but it made adherence to the restriction much easier.
I agree that training off 900 is needlessly excessive though, particularly with no real objective, or training outcome, in mind.2 -
MeanderingMammal wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »
Wait. So just so I'm reading this right. You're thinking that you can eat 1200 calories a day only if you burn 900 on the elliptical? (And frankly, I'm side-eyeing the idea of burning 10 calories a minute on an elliptical, but that's neither here nor there.)
Fwiw my experience of losing weight, hence eating in a deficit, was that it was psychologically easier to net 1600 of I was running off 300 and eating 1900 than it was just reading 1600. No real difference in CICO but it made adherence to the restriction much easier.
I agree that training off 900 is needlessly excessive though, particularly with no real objective, or training outcome, in mind.
Right. But she's claiming that she's eating 1200, and then exercising off 900 worth. That's very different from eating 1900 and burning 300 through exercise.
Her example is not healthy, and pretty dang disordered. Overexercise to that extreme is pretty classic eating disorder behavior.0 -
collectingblues wrote: »MeanderingMammal wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »
Wait. So just so I'm reading this right. You're thinking that you can eat 1200 calories a day only if you burn 900 on the elliptical? (And frankly, I'm side-eyeing the idea of burning 10 calories a minute on an elliptical, but that's neither here nor there.)
Fwiw my experience of losing weight, hence eating in a deficit, was that it was psychologically easier to net 1600 of I was running off 300 and eating 1900 than it was just reading 1600. No real difference in CICO but it made adherence to the restriction much easier.
I agree that training off 900 is needlessly excessive though, particularly with no real objective, or training outcome, in mind.
Right. But she's claiming that she's eating 1200, and then exercising off 900 worth. That's very different from eating 1900 and burning 300 through exercise.
Her example is not healthy, and pretty dang disordered. Overexercise to that extreme is pretty classic eating disorder behavior.My calorie intake is 1200 perday.
So if i burn 900calories on the elliptical I can eat excess of 700-900 calories during the day.
Also I read somewhere exercise until muscle sore is good which means I am building muscle.
NO, she's claiming she's netting 1200 and eating 700 of the 9005 -
OK. I was hoping I was misinterpreting. When I read "intake" that doesn't tell me net; that reads to me as gross.
Hopefully you're right.0 -
collectingblues wrote: »MeanderingMammal wrote: »collectingblues wrote: »
Wait. So just so I'm reading this right. You're thinking that you can eat 1200 calories a day only if you burn 900 on the elliptical? (And frankly, I'm side-eyeing the idea of burning 10 calories a minute on an elliptical, but that's neither here nor there.)
Fwiw my experience of losing weight, hence eating in a deficit, was that it was psychologically easier to net 1600 of I was running off 300 and eating 1900 than it was just reading 1600. No real difference in CICO but it made adherence to the restriction much easier.
I agree that training off 900 is needlessly excessive though, particularly with no real objective, or training outcome, in mind.
Right. But she's claiming that she's eating 1200, and then exercising off 900 worth. That's very different from eating 1900 and burning 300 through exercise.
Her example is not healthy, and pretty dang disordered. Overexercise to that extreme is pretty classic eating disorder behavior.
That's not how I read it0 -
Ok let me explain this again.
My standard intake per day if I dont exercise is 1200calories per day (according to height & weight which is 59kg/155cm)
If I work out 90mins and burn 900calories, my in take per day will be 1200+900= 2100calories on the day. But it depends on me if I want to eat 1800cals,1900cals -- as long it is below 2100calories,
So the more I exercise, the more I can eat .
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Sounds about accurate to me. Elliptical is a total body workout, thats why I love it so much!
Way to go!!!!3 -
I do this regularly. I'll be doing 99 minutes (the highest it'll go) at the gym this morning. I do 'rolling hills' on 'level 13', listen to podcasts, and allegedly burn about 1400 calories. I'm a distance runner whose prone to injury with too much impact work, so I use the elliptical to give my body a break from impact while still training to an extent. Like, I ran 14km yesterday, elliptical today, 36km run tomorrow, elliptical Monday, rest Tuesday, run 16km Wednesday, elliptical and short treadmill run Thursday, etc.
And yes, my feet get sore, because it's basically like standing in place for an hour and a half. Gotta remember to wiggle toes and move feet around occasionally.2 -
I don't know that I would want to do 90 min on the elliptical but the calorie management sounds like it is within recommended guidelines. The pain in the feet may be cause for concern. Injury from repetitive motion shouldn't be trifled with. Perhaps scale back on the elliptical and find some other form of cardio that uses different muscles for additional calorie burn.1
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The calorie burn will vary from individual to individual depending on the person's weight and the intensity of their workout. For many people, the machine counts overestimate and for some, like myself, the counts are actually below. It is not a precise science. I am one of those who does burn between 500-600 calories per hour during certain activities, including the elliptical, running, cycling and boxing fitness classes. This is partly or largely due to my having COPD I imagine because I have to breathe so much harder to power my muscles. I worked this out years ago because I lost weight when I followed the counts that mfp/machines gave me, but once I started wearing a chest strap based hrm and using those values, it leveled out.
I would suggest, if you use the counts given by the exercise machine or mfp, that you give some leeway for inaccuracy or invest in a decent hrm for more accuracy. Nothing is going to be exact, of course, but some methods of finding your calorie burns for activities are more accurate than others, imo.2 -
We have similar stats (I am 5'3" started at 127 and now 117). 1200 is accurate assuming you are sedentary outside of exercise, so ignore people who say otherwise.
Typically I burn 200ish cal in 30 min on the elliptical, so 600 for 90 min. Do you input your stats such as weight into the machine? Even if you do, the calorie output on the machine is often inaccurate. Have you tried a heart rate monitor? Those are a little more accurate.
I 1000% understand wanting to exercise so you can eat more. Us shorties don't get many calories to work with! But there is no reason to work yourself to this extreme point of exhaustion. Besides, Eating 1800-1900 cal on gym days will make it much harder to stick to your 1200cals on days when you can't get to the gym. Why don't you try scaling it back a bit? Try just an 45 mins or an hour on the elliptical instead, maybe add in a little weight lifting, try eating 1500-1600 on those days.8 -
Cutaway_Collar wrote: »I love how the OP shut everyone up. Exercising more to eat more is a technique I follow myself. Just coz my mfp limit says 1800 cals does not mean I always eat that much. I end up eating more and I am still ok.
Besides - to the poster who said not with cardio - any exercise you do uses and hurts muscles. Ellipticals do make leg muscles sore after 90 min.
Yes, but you're not going to build muscle doing cardio and eating in a deficit. Your legs might get stronger and your feet might adjust which is great. But getting stronger or better at something and building muscle are 2 different things.
As a smallish woman I do a lot of walking and keep to a workout schedule so I can eat more food. Personally I think spending an hour and a half on an elliptical is overkill but to each their own. I do think 900 cals in that time is probably an overestimate.6 -
That's a serious resistance level to burn that many calories. I do 30 minuts of elliptical, I vary the resistance level each week to keep it changing, but my calorie burn ranges from 400-500 and that's in 30 minutes. So I believe you. And for all those haters on this thread. Just because you don't do it, doesn't mean it won't work for someone else. I have muscle defining in my legs because of the resistance on my elliptical, it's not all I do but it is the majority.7
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Cutaway_Collar wrote: »I love how the OP shut everyone up. Exercising more to eat more is a technique I follow myself. Just coz my mfp limit says 1800 cals does not mean I always eat that much. I end up eating more and I am still ok.
Besides - to the poster who said not with cardio - any exercise you do uses and hurts muscles. Ellipticals do make leg muscles sore after 90 min.
Leg muscles being sore doesn't mean muscle growth though. Not sure why people believe that every ache and pain means more muscle mass7 -
singingflutelady wrote: »Cutaway_Collar wrote: »I love how the OP shut everyone up. Exercising more to eat more is a technique I follow myself. Just coz my mfp limit says 1800 cals does not mean I always eat that much. I end up eating more and I am still ok.
Besides - to the poster who said not with cardio - any exercise you do uses and hurts muscles. Ellipticals do make leg muscles sore after 90 min.
Leg muscles being sore doesn't mean muscle growth though. Not sure why people believe that every ache and pain means more muscle mass
Yep, plus as you lose fat you reveal the muscles that were already there, which can make it seem like you are building muscle.
Not sure why people take it as a knock on an exercise. Cardio is really good for you and can make you stronger. But building muscle requires specific conditions.3 -
alabove2017 wrote: »That's a serious resistance level to burn that many calories. I do 30 minuts of elliptical, I vary the resistance level each week to keep it changing, but my calorie burn ranges from 400-500 and that's in 30 minutes. So I believe you. And for all those haters on this thread. Just because you don't do it, doesn't mean it won't work for someone else. I have muscle defining in my legs because of the resistance on my elliptical, it's not all I do but it is the majority.
Wow.
No one is being a hater. There are incredibly knowledgable people here, and some are even experts in the exercise, science and nutrition field.
Machine calories are highly inflated, so are mfp calories and wearable calorie trackers.7 -
Unless you're really heavy (like well over 230lbs), you're NOT burning 900 calories on the elliptical in 90 minutes. Michael Phelps burns 27 calories in 2 minutes of Olympic speed swimming. That' FULL SPEED. So if he did 60 minutes of it, that's 810 calories. And I truly doubt your intensity is as high as his. I'm betting your actual calorie burn is no more than 650 calories in the 90 minutes.
Oh and you aren't building muscle doing cardio workouts. Aerobic workouts are for respiratory conditioning.
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