How many calories do you burn while working out?

kirstengeffen
kirstengeffen Posts: 103 Member
in Fitness and Exercise
I usually have a goal of how many calories I want to burn a day during my workouts.
I know this will vary from person to person, with each person having different stats

But curious what is your daily workout calorie burn goal?

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  • SnifterPug
    SnifterPug Posts: 746 Member
    I don't have one. It varies from 150 to 550 calories as a general rule.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    I don't have a calorie burn goal either. My workout choice for the day is about fitness or simply decompressing. Yoga days burn next to nothing (hatha) but relaxing while working my balance is still a good thing.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    How many calories varies enormously as my exercise varies enormously.

    Lowest individual exercise session probably about 150cals for a three mile walk, highest about 4,500 for a 130 mile hilly cycle ride.
    Quite a big seasonal variation too as my monthly cycling volume varies from about 15 hours (mostly indoors) in winter to 40+ hours outdoors in the summer months. At the moment I'm in the range 3,500 - 5,500 exercise cals per week.

    My goals though are performance, enjoyment and health related and not energy expenditure.

  • JintheSouth
    JintheSouth Posts: 44 Member
    I aim for a minimum of 300 calories, and usually burn about 350-500. On active rest days it could be as low as 180.
  • niccibf
    niccibf Posts: 36 Member
    I aim for 450-550 on Orangetheory days (and I try not to be bitter that my husband burns 850-900 for the same workout 🤔😕). Other workout days I aim for 300 (biking/swimming/power walking).
  • Roadie35
    Roadie35 Posts: 132 Member
    300 row - 10000 endurance event
  • Dogmom1978
    Dogmom1978 Posts: 1,580 Member
    It depends. Is it a weights only day? Cardio only day? Weights and cardio? I could burn as few as 150 or as high as 800 (if it’s a HIKING day!)
  • Jacq_qui
    Jacq_qui Posts: 443 Member
    Usually 200-500 depending on what i'm doing. It's not always reflective of the effort I've put in, I must say!
  • heybales
    heybales Posts: 18,842 Member
    From 180 to 1500 - depending on lifting to long ride.

    The calorie burn of the workout has absolutely no bearing on what is done - what I want to accomplish from the workout does.
    So no goal for calories burned, and certainly not per day.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,204 Member
    Zero to 1000 is the range, but I don't have a particular goal. I don't exercise for calories, I exercise for fun and fitness, but eat the calories back because fueling exercise is a good plan.

    Lately, I'm having to force myself to do maintenance-level workouts (it's a personal problem, eh? ;) ), and I'm not large (any more :lol: ), so I'm usually eating 150-250 most days from exercise. In normal times, 250-350 or so would be more typical daily. The 1000 or so are unusual things like a longer bike ride stacked on top of a regular workout schedule, the days I'm at rowing camps/workshops, or something like that.

    To me, it makes more sense to focus exercise goals on fitting enjoyable activity into life, while maintaining good overall life balance (enough time/energy for family, job, social life, etc.), so that one is setting up an exercise schedule that will be happily maintained long term, for lifelong health and happiness reasons. YMMV.
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    I burn anywhere from 150-2500 depending on what I’m doing. My workouts include yoga, weightlifting, circuit-ish stuff and runs ranging from 3-20+ miles. My workouts are structured around a plan for various running races/events. My goal is to complete the scheduled workout within whatever parameters it has (meaning easy runs should be easy, hard should be hard, rest should be rest...). It burns whatever calories it burns. I’m training for a 50k right now so I’m averaging about 500/day (heavily skewed to the long run day).
  • ksavy
    ksavy Posts: 271 Member
    150-250 for active recovery rest days, 300-1000 for workout days, potentially more if I go for a long hike. Most days are in the 400-500 range.
  • Gisel2015
    Gisel2015 Posts: 4,186 Member
    I don't know. I stopped worrying about that long time ago since I don't log them. When I do track exercises, I only enter the time spent exercising. Never had a fitness tracker either.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    edited July 2020
    I have fitness goals, not calorie burn goals. That said, I range from 100-1,500, depending on how long I'm going for that particular day. 2-500 would be a pretty typical weekday, with the higher burns on the weekend.

    I'd personally find it very demotivating to be exercising for a particular calorie burn target (although I'm sure it could work for other people).
  • sgt1372
    sgt1372 Posts: 3,997 Member
    edited July 2020
    Same here.

    I have a daily exercise, not cal burn, goal but they go hand in hand.

    My daily exercise goal is to row 5km/day which, in my case, is equal to between 260-270 cals burned/day. I sometimes I miss a day and burn zero exercise cals which I make up the next day by rowing 10km and burning 520-540 cals instead.

    However, my daily cal intake goal always remains the same at about 1800 cals/day and how much food I eat never varies that much. So, I do NOT use my exercise cals as an excuse to eat more; ie., I do not purposefully eat my exercise cals back.

    If I did, I'd probably gain wt because I am maintaining my wt by doing what I do now which proves (at least 2 me) that the calculation or estimate of how many cals you burn exercising is not all that precise and does not necessarily have a direct effect in reducing the cals your body uses from the food that you consume.

  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    I don't have a burn goal. I have no clue how much I burn per workout at all. I have fitness goals and just aim to get the workout done. I have an idea how much I burn overall but I probably burn more from my NEAT vs exercise these days.
  • Shortgirlrunning
    Shortgirlrunning Posts: 1,020 Member
    My runs burn between 500-1100 calories.

    Strength training I don’t even count the calories burned. It’s probably around 150-200ish though.

    I eat back my cardio calories but not my strength training ones.

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