I burned 1000 calories in 60 minutes!

I would say the lower is closest, but not knowing your stats I really have no idea.

You really should log and eat back exercise cals*. You need to fuel your training to progress.

*This is if you are using the MFP NEAT method. If you are using an off site TDEE calculator that includes your exercise calories, you are good.
If you are eating at non exercise maintenance and using exercise as your deficit, you may be good. (Depending on how much you have to lose and your exercise deficit)

Cheers, h.

10 Cals per minute for vigorous cardio. Half that or less for Weightlifting

HRM are not meant for measuring strength or resistance training. They're calibrated for heart rate during cardio only.

Its_thetime wrote: »

So if you don't consider exercise calories burned, do you count them as a "bonus"?. I don't understand how you'd incorporate them into TDEE, cause doesn't that count activity as daily? What if you don't exercise daily? As I said, I don't usually eat back exercise calories and if I do it'll be like 100 calories.

I suppose that your question refers to my posting so this is my answer. I am in maintenance ( 7.5 years and counting) and my goals and how I accomplish them are different. I give myself a pre-determined number of daily calories (1450) to eat and I try my best to meet them, and the same with my macros (35% P and C and 30% F) Some people may consider it eating a TDEE, I just don't and don't care either.

I exercise 4 to 5 times a week and I don't record calories burned because I don't track them. I just have an idea of my burn so I feel "protected" if some days I go over 1450. I don't know how to explain my method any better but it works for me.

Edited to add: I am a very short and small; and much older woman than most of the people in MFP , so I don't burn too many calories. My cardio routine is moderate and the rest of my workout is strength training and calisthenic exercises. If I rely on the reading in the machines and/or whatever MFP determines, I probably burn around 250 and 300 calories on a good day.

Its_thetime wrote: »

So if you don't consider exercise calories burned, do you count them as a "bonus"?. I don't understand how you'd incorporate them into TDEE, cause doesn't that count activity as daily? What if you don't exercise daily? As I said, I don't usually eat back exercise calories and if I do it'll be like 100 calories.

TDEE calculators will give you an average. If your exercise is going to be a regular thing then TDEE minus a cut works great. You don't have a higher burn on cardio days, and a much lower burn on strength days....you just have the average.

The "bonus" if the cut is large (and over time)....might be an increase in lean muscle loss. Sure the "bonus" looks great on the scale, but healthy weight loss should help you lower your body fat %.

Azdak wrote: »

BTW, at 200 lbs, I was measured with a metabolic cart at 17 Cals/min several years ago. It was at an effort that I might have been able to sustain for an hour, but it would have been a hard effort that I certainly couldn’t do every day.

That would give you an FTP of 283 watts.

i only give myself 300 calories to eat back per hour long workout, regardless of what anything tell me. 400 for an hour and a half.

i think the machine tells me something like 1000 yeah. i wish. LOLOLOL

Its_thetime wrote: »

I wanted to accurately log my exercise calories, so I wore a HRM during exercise. I did some circuit training and then lifted weights with little rest in between sets and my heart rate was 160-170 for most of the time. All said and done after one hour, the HRM said I burned 1000 calories. I didn't believe it, so I calculated my burn using a METs calculator and it said I burned about 550 calories. I don't usually eat back my exercise calories, but I'd still like to know whats accurate. Thoughts?

Back when I weighed 260lb+ I could burn 1000 Calories in an hour, but now at 148lb I'm lucky if I burn 500 and that's with intense cardio. With strength training it's more like 300, even with my HR going up >150 during heavy sets.

sijomial wrote: »

firef1y72 wrote: »

Its_thetime wrote: »

I wanted to accurately log my exercise calories, so I wore a HRM during exercise. I did some circuit training and then lifted weights with little rest in between sets and my heart rate was 160-170 for most of the time. All said and done after one hour, the HRM said I burned 1000 calories. I didn't believe it, so I calculated my burn using a METs calculator and it said I burned about 550 calories. I don't usually eat back my exercise calories, but I'd still like to know whats accurate. Thoughts?

Back when I weighed 260lb+ I could burn 1000 Calories in an hour, but now at 148lb I'm lucky if I burn 500 and that's with intense cardio. With strength training it's more like 300, even with my HR going up >150 during heavy sets.

@firefly72
How were you and how are you estimating your cardio burns?
Reason I ask is that calorie burns are far more to do with fitness rather than weight. Surprised your increased fitness level (ability to do more in the same time) hasn't compensated for your amazing weight loss.

Your HR during strength training is no indication of calorie burns by the way, it's in relation to the weight moved.

I've been using a Fitbit throughout and lost at pretty much the expected rate and have maintained for the last 3 months using the numbers it gives. When I first started this fitness lark, I had twice as much weight to lug around and an hour in the gym doing some very basic cardio (walking on treadmill, bike) and strength training (very light weights compared to now) would come in at anything from 700-1000 Calories depending on how I pushed myself and I felt like I was dying (my rhr was in the high 60s low 70s it's now around 40). Just for a laugh I tried doing the same routine a couple of months back, barely broke a sweat and it certainly didn't feel anything like it used to and I only clocked up 250.
Yes I am able to do a heck of a lot more in the same time now, but I'm also far more efficient iykwim. It doesn't take me nearly as much effort to do even simple everyday things like getting up off the floor and walking across the room let alone burpees etc.

I know my hr doesn't affect my Calorie burn during strength training, I actually use it more as a guide to see if I've recovered from the last set.