Who burns 1000+ cals daily?

If you mean 1000 extra exercise calories burned daily, that’s a lot of exercise, and pretty agressive for the average person.
As rv1234567 said, your body burns calories through functioning, that’s your BMR, how many calories your body burns daily.

It's technically possible - I'm sure some jobs (bike messenger? lumberjack in 1920?) would have people that do it but if you're asking for people that do that every day at the gym, that sounds dangerous?

I am 5 foot 3. I burn at least 1700 just by existing, but usually 2,200 at minimum for normal day to day activity. I burn an extra 100-160 calories some days via exercise.

threewins wrote: »

For comparison sake, that's an 80 kg woman walking 3 hours 47 minutes a day
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Female,+walking,+227+minutes,+4.5+km/hr,+80+kg
Or her running at 7 km/hr for just over 90 minutes
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Female,+running,+93.3+minutes,+7+km/hr,+80+kg
If she doesn't have a job, or is on holiday I could certainly see her doing that spread over 2 sessions a day.

Sustainably, every day, while maintaining good, healthy overall life balance (enough energy/time for job, family, social relationships, non-exercise hobbies, etc.)?

It's not impossible, and might even be reasonable in a serious endurance athlete . . . but serious endurance athletes are usually thinking about structured training plans, not "calories per day".

OP, I usually burn something averaging in the range of 2000-2500 calories daily, at 5'5" and a bodyweight in the mid-130s pounds. That includes anything from zero to 500ish calories from intentional exercise, most typically around 275 +/-. The days with 500ish are pretty fatiguing, though if I devoted more training hours more routinely, I could work up to 500ish and find it less fatiguing. But I have other priorities, so I'm very happy with the status quo.

Be aware that machines, organizations like Orange Theory and their ilk, the MFP database, and even fitness trackers and heart rate monitors, can significantly overestimate exercise calories.

Someone who is very obese burns more calories per minute for most any guven activity/intensity, of course.

I don't think you'll get many takers, asking for 1000+ daily exercise calories . . . at least not accurate ones. Some, maybe.

Best wishes, truly!

I'm pretty sure my Garmin overestimates my exercise calories but for me, an hour + of Zumba (which I do every morning before work via youtube), tends to burn 600+ calories compared to how much I can burn on a treadmill or an elliptical. For reference, a 40 minute HIIT class tends to burn around 350 calories. I capture all my walks whether walking the dog, grocery shopping (pushing a trolley) and I try to fit in a 30 minute lunchtime walk and a 30 minute walk around the block before my colleagues arrive at work (30 minute walks tend to burn around 100 calories or so).

So I frequently exceed 1,000 recorded calories a day based on 1 hour or more of intense cardio and an hour or more of leisurely/not very serious exercise - I fit as many incidental mini walks into my day as I can. My dog walks are not any more strenuous than a grocery walk to be honest because of my dogs' habit of wanting to pee on every tree/bush

1000+ cals in exercise? I mean, I am 6'3" 195 ish. Average 14k + steps, lift 4-5 days a week, have a job on my feet most of the day and maybe burn 4-6 hundred in "exercise". Diet drives weight loss. Get your nutrition in line and let exercise be a bonus. After weight loss, exercise can drive maintenance.

FitAndGoodLooking wrote: »

I am looking for females who burns 1000 cals daily to motivate me. Feel free to add me.

Even if you find what you are looking for, they will not be able to motivate you. They may encourage you and probably inspire you, but that is all. Motivation comes from within, so it is up to you to find it.

Good luck!

elisa123gal wrote: »

I think if a person did two hours of a cardio..they'd be close. I do the elliptical for an hour and it says I've burned near 800..which I don't take as gosple..at all. But I'm not even going crazy fast.

I'm sure cyclist who bank 25 miles a ride do that.

I can't speak for others, or for other activities, but it's true that I can hold 590-ish gross calories (weight adjusted) on a rowing machine long enough, with some short water breaks, that I could get in 1000 rowing machine calories in a day in less than a couple of hours wall clock. I'm not a profoundly unconditioned person (though I am old), and my technique is reasonably efficient, but it would be very fatiguing.

I could do 500/hour for a continuous hour, maybe two, though I'd be very thirsty if I didn't stop to drink. (I have no reason to try; it's a weird pace/duration combo for me, and irrelevant to my goals).

Either of those would be tiring, and take a long time. I couldn't do it daily and maintain what I consider good overall life balance . . . and I'm retired, with no family responsibilities. I'm sure others could manage it, and the nature of one's workout makes a difference.

Part of the problem here is that we don't know what OP was talking about.

1. 1000 total calories a day? Most adults burn substantially more than that, even quite small, inactive adults.
2. 1000 calories extra from intentional workout-type exercise? Pretty aggressive for an average-sized female, if you ask me, and it assumes exercise is quite a high priority.
3. 1000 "active" calories from a tracker, encompassing work, home chores, miscellaneous daily activity and intentional workout-type exercise? Probably not that tough, or uncommon.
4. 1000 calorie tracker adjustment vs. MFP? That's going to be very setting-dependent.

FWIW, in my earlier post on this thread, I was assuming scenario #2.

elisa123gal wrote: »

I think if a person did two hours of a cardio..they'd be close. I do the elliptical for an hour and it says I've burned near 800..which I don't take as gosple..at all. But I'm not even going crazy fast.

I'm sure cyclist who bank 25 miles a ride do that.

An hour of cardio that is sustainable for 2 hours and doesn’t leave me in a state where I’m unable to do some sort of activity the next day burns 300-400 calories. So 600-800 for 2 hours.

I burn 625-750 on a 25 mile bike ride.

1000 is really quite a bit to do at a level that is repeatable day after day.

Unless you’re using mfp estimates - in which case I “burn” 1000+ in 90 minutes of activity.

FitAndGoodLooking wrote: »

missysippy930 wrote: »

If you mean 1000 extra exercise calories burned daily, that’s a lot of exercise, and pretty agressive for the average person.
As rv1234567 said, your body burns calories through functioning, that’s your BMR, how many calories your body burns daily.

Then why do we gain weight?

I'm not sure you understand how calories and weight loss work? Your body burns a certain amount of calories just functioning. This is called your BMR. It's how much your body burns if you were in a coma. It varies based on weight, height, age, and gender, but we all burn most of our calories this way. Then there is daily activity calories. This includes everything you do in your normal routine form getting up in the morning to going to the bathroom to going to work. Then on top of that are exercise calories. Exercise for most people, even those decently active is the smallest of those 3 calorie burners.

Weight gain or loss primarily has to do with how ouch we eat. We gain weight when we eat more calories than our body burns. We lose weight when we eat less than our body burns. Exercise can assist and is good for our health, but many people here have lsot substantial weight without doing any purposeful exercise.