Stationary bike or treadmill
Prady2012
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I can bike on 12th gear at 60 to 80 speed and walk at 3 -3.5 mph on 6 to 12 elevations on treadmill
What is more efficient in terms of losing weight?
What is more efficient in terms of losing weight?
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Neither if you don't get your diet in order. Eat less than you burn. If your burn includes exercise, that's great. But neither will burn much unless you do it for a very long time (then you end up eating more due to your need to fuel your workouts).
Do the exercises you like. Do the ones that will have the most impact on your health. Work on the weight loss in the kitchen.
FWIW - Both machines drive me insane. I love to run and I like riding but not on some boring *kitten* machine. Get outside if you can. You body and mind will thank you.
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Generally speaking walking, especially at steeper inclines, will burn more calories per mile walked than cycling will but over a given amount of time you can cycle farther than you can walk (I'm not sure what the speed you mention actually refers to....RPM?)
As the others have said the first thing is to sort out your diet (ther's an old saying that abs are made in the kitchen) and then pick which you are more likely to enjoy doing on a consistent basis over time.
Something to consider, if you have one close by, is a membership at a gym like Planet Fitness. At $10 a month you'd have access to commercial quality machines which are quite expensive. Many of the lower cost treadmills & bikes are not great quality and don't tend to stand the test of time very well.0 -
I agree with @dewd2 but to answer your question another way, I suppose you could use a heart rate monitor to help see which workout burns the most cardio-calories.
FWIW - I don't suggest using a HRM for anything other than training (and I don't even recommend that anymore). Heart rate has little to do with calorie burn. There are too many variables that can influence HR outside of exercise.3 -
if your goal is truly weight loss then incorporate a healthy diet and add weight/resistance training. Muscle burns more calories so the more you have the more you burn,
Look at Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Yes, he is massive and he eats 5000 calories a day because his muscles burn through those calories very quickly. Check out his "cheat" day, which he does once per week... https://youtube.com/watch?v=65iZ21omFEI11 -
These myths just keep on giving this time of year...
First, how often does Johnson do this 'cheat day'? A couple times a year? Maybe less.
Second, each pound of muscle burns less than 6 calories. The net gain (assuming you also lose fat) is less than 4 calories per day. If you gained 10 pounds of muscle you'd earn yourself an extra mini Hershey bar each day. Of course gaining 10 pounds of muscle won't happen quickly so you better get to work. Oh, and there's that diet thing again. You can't gain while losing so there's that....
Add resistance training to preserve the muscle you have while losing weight. Add cardio for your fitness. Get the diet in order for everything else.6 -
Walking on the treadmill and recumbent stationary bike are two of the biggest wastes of my time as far as burning calories go. Regular sit up bikes do better, running on the treadmill is better again, running incline sprints is even better.0
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if your goal is truly weight loss then incorporate a healthy diet and add weight/resistance training. Muscle burns more calories so the more you have the more you burn,
Look at Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Yes, he is massive and he eats 5000 calories a day because his muscles burn through those calories very quickly. Check out his "cheat" day, which he does once per week... https://youtube.com/watch?v=65iZ21omFEI
Not only is this wrong, but imagine if it was right. Imagine having to eat 5,000 calories everyday. That's a lot of time and money.4 -
The one you enjoy doing is the one you’re likely to continue to do-which means that’s the one that will burn the most calories.
The things you enjoy doing may not even be one of the two options you’ve listed.
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Dietary control is key before you do anything in the gym. It also depends on what you want to do in the gym? For instance, a good 4mph 60 minute power walk session on an inclined treadmill set to around 75% to 80% of the maximum incline will give you around a 650-700kcal burn. This is the same as a 1hr spin class session. Alternatively if running is your thing, then a 10k 1hr run using HIIT will likely burn a similar amount. It all depends on where you are with your fitness and your ability to work at an efficient caloric burn level throughout the regime. First things first, sort the diet and then find something you enjoy - for the lifestyle changes to be sustainable you ought to be doing something that you actually like doing. Good luck!5
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lyndajbowyer wrote: »Dietary control is key before you do anything in the gym. It also depends on what you want to do in the gym? For instance, a good 4mph 60 minute power walk session on an inclined treadmill set to around 75% to 80% of the maximum incline will give you around a 650-700kcal burn. This is the same as a 1hr spin class session. Alternatively if running is your thing, then a 10k 1hr run using HIIT will likely burn a similar amount. It all depends on where you are with your fitness and your ability to work at an efficient caloric burn level throughout the regime. First things first, sort the diet and then find something you enjoy - for the lifestyle changes to be sustainable you ought to be doing something that you actually like doing. Good luck!
Doing something you enjoy is important and calories in vs out controls weight loss. Very true.
Just want to mention those calorie burns are about double what I would burn for those activities (I would burn 650 running a 10k-probably 1/2 that if I did it as intervals). I don’t want OP to assume that her burns will be that high or that she did something wrong if they aren’t.
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@Duck_Puddle of course all caloric burns are subjective in terms of your starting weight/versus height and BMR, but the figures given are a ballpark (they're what I burn, depending on whether I go all-out [the upper range] or take it a bit easier).
If anything, those needing specific advice would be best placed to enrol and work with a PT who can see to their needs 1-to-1 and drive them to working out with efficacy and also having balanced nutrition along the way.0 -
lyndajbowyer wrote: »Dietary control is key before you do anything in the gym. It also depends on what you want to do in the gym? For instance, a good 4mph 60 minute power walk session on an inclined treadmill set to around 75% to 80% of the maximum incline will give you around a 650-700kcal burn. This is the same as a 1hr spin class session. Alternatively if running is your thing, then a 10k 1hr run using HIIT will likely burn a similar amount. It all depends on where you are with your fitness and your ability to work at an efficient caloric burn level throughout the regime. First things first, sort the diet and then find something you enjoy - for the lifestyle changes to be sustainable you ought to be doing something that you actually like doing. Good luck!
Assuming one is physiologically capable of working out (whatever that might mean for them), why do you think that going to the gym has to happen after "sorting the diet"?0 -
Because, @aokoye it matters not what you do in the gym - if your diet is not on point then whatever you do for a workout isn't gonna have much impact if there's no nutritional framework. Healthy weightloss is optimal when the focus is around 80% dietary, and 20% exercise. Not my thoughts - those of my PT who has, so far, gotten me to lose 70lbs in six months - and still losing.2
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lyndajbowyer wrote: »Because, @aokoye it matters not what you do in the gym - if your diet is not on point then whatever you do for a workout isn't gonna have much impact if there's no nutritional framework. Healthy weightloss is optimal when the focus is around 80% dietary, and 20% exercise. Not my thoughts - those of my PT who has, so far, gotten me to lose 70lbs in six months - and still losing.
So you're saying that doing activities that are cardiovascularly intensive will have little to no physiological impact if someone isn't eating xyz nutrients? That makes no sense. If you had said, "you won't lose much weight if your diet isn't in order" then that'd be one thing, but that's not what you've said. Weight loss and fitness are two different things. Weight loss is about calories in:calories out. Fitness is about exercising in various ways in order to improve or maintain various abilities.
I'm sure your personal trainer (I'm assuming that's what you mean by PT) wouldn't be terribly pleased with my cookie habit (typically one chocolate chip cookie and one canelé most week days). That said it fits into my calories and I'm still losing weight and getting stronger (both in terms of muscle strength and cardiovascular fitness).
Never mind that your rate of weight loss (almost 3 pounds a week) isn't actually safe for a lot of people.3 -
lyndajbowyer wrote: »@Duck_Puddle of course all caloric burns are subjective in terms of your starting weight/versus height and BMR, but the figures given are a ballpark (they're what I burn, depending on whether I go all-out [the upper range] or take it a bit easier).
If anything, those needing specific advice would be best placed to enrol and work with a PT who can see to their needs 1-to-1 and drive them to working out with efficacy and also having balanced nutrition along the way.
Idk. I have a coach because I have very specific fitness goals and he helps me achieve them. Not everyone has those financial resources and thankfully, it’s not really necessary (I lost 75 pounds and trained for many races successfully before I started working wirh my coach).
Weight loss is about calories eaten vs calories burned. One needs to know how many calories they are eating and how many they are burning. Part of that comes from having reasonable estimates for how many calories are burned during a workout.
You phrased your response with “will give you around 650-700 burn”. While that may be true for YOU, it’s exceedingly high for many others. I was only pointing out that the numbers you gave are not numbers that everyone can (or should) expect.
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lyndajbowyer wrote: »Because, @aokoye it matters not what you do in the gym - if your diet is not on point then whatever you do for a workout isn't gonna have much impact if there's no nutritional framework. Healthy weightloss is optimal when the focus is around 80% dietary, and 20% exercise. Not my thoughts - those of my PT who has, so far, gotten me to lose 70lbs in six months - and still losing.
I spent the last week eating things like pizza and candy. And cross country skiing a lot. I've been struggling with anxiety for a little while, and the combination of exercise and time outdoors helped a great deal with my anxiety, a lot more than the pills the doctor gives me. Exercise is great for your health no matter how you eat, those are separate things.
It's like saying you shouldn't attend to your diet until you get a fuel efficient car and solar panels.0 -
If you can measure your cycling in watts thats the best way to know how much energy your using. Both can be as intense as you want it to be.1
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Both will work equally well. You should be able to get your heart rate to the same level with both. Your heart rate is what will determine how many calories you will burn. You should look up what an ideal heart rate would be for your demographic, then make that your target.
It's all about thermodynamics. The bigger the calorie deficit, the faster you'll lose the weight. This can be done by eating at a deficit or by burning to a deficit by doing exercises or by a combination of the two.
While heart rate is the key to weight loss, it's not the only thing to consider if you want to be healthy and I'm shape. If I was you, I'd consider which one is going to engage the most missiles. I'd also consider which one I could last on for the longest as the longer you are doing the cardio, the more calories you'll burn.7 -
jonathanpitman1 wrote: »Both will work equally well. You should be able to get your heart rate to the same level with both. Your heart rate is what will determine how many calories you will burn. You should look up what an ideal heart rate would be for your demographic, then make that your target.!!
Completely wrong, there is not a linear relationship between heart rate and energy expenditure otherwise we could just watch scary movies or ride a roller coaster.....
I can get my heart rate very high cycling or running and I know with absolute certainty that I burn more calories running for an hour than I do cycling for an hour (I use a power meter on my bike, you can't dispute wattage).1 -
jonathanpitman1 wrote: »Both will work equally well. You should be able to get your heart rate to the same level with both. Your heart rate is what will determine how many calories you will burn. You should look up what an ideal heart rate would be for your demographic, then make that your target.
It's all about thermodynamics. The bigger the calorie deficit, the faster you'll lose the weight. This can be done by eating at a deficit or by burning to a deficit by doing exercises or by a combination of the two.
While heart rate is the key to weight loss, it's not the only thing to consider if you want to be healthy and I'm shape. If I was you, I'd consider which one is going to engage the most missiles. I'd also consider which one I could last on for the longest as the longer you are doing the cardio, the more calories you'll burn.
This is why I watch horror movies. Other people are out running at a conversational pace in zone 2, but I'm sitting on the couch in zone 5 while the clown is lurking in the shadows. I figure I burn about 1,200 calories per movie. I have to eat lots of popcorn to fuel such an intense workout.6
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