Burn 900 calories on 94minutes eliptical
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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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alabove2017 wrote: »And for all those haters on this thread.
What?
That right there was literally the first mean thing said in this thread...
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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, you think you are putting on muscle mass while eating in a deficit doing cardio????1 -
Thanks for the reply guys!
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Muscleflex79 wrote: »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, you think you are putting on muscle mass while eating in a deficit doing cardio????
Well, to a certain extent she is. Even walking can build/strengthen muscles for somebody who is severely out of shape. It won't be much, granted, but if your baseline is negative even getting back to zero counts as a gain.4 -
Actually I did saw some people who gained feet muscle after a lot of running. So basically cardio does help you built muscle but not as effective as weightlifting and took a very long time.5
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tigerblood6 wrote: »
So the more I exercise, the more I can eat .
LOL, I think we've all been there, I'll easily consume 1,000 cal for breakfast in the latter stages of a training plan & I'm pretty sure if I didn't run I'd weigh 400 lbs but the potential downside in this type of thinking is that you may be overestimating your caloric expenditure (most cardio machines significantly overstate the burn) and underestimating your intake (there is a tendency for people to underestimate portion sizes etc unless you are diligently weighing and measuring every morsel you consume) and burning 10 cal/minute on an elliptical requires a pretty grueling workout...
Unless you're training for a specific event (or doing something that you really love doing like a long bike ride on a weekend) there is no compelling reason for extremely long workouts. In respect to improved cardiovascular health there are diminishing returns at the same time you are significantly increasing your risk of an overuse injury.3
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