How long/hard are you working out to burn 1,000+ calories?

I have never burned 1000 cals from exercise in one day so you're not alone. Keep in mind, the more you weigh, the mor eyou burn doing a particular activity. so a 200 lbs woman would burn a lot more than a 140 lb woman perform the same activity, with equal effort.

I don't burn 1000 a day but I do aim for at least 600 every other day. I find that when I do my exercise dvd's I burn a ton more calories then when I am walking/running on the treadmill. I did a 47 minute dvd on Saturday and burned 517 calories! If I did 47 minutes on my treadmill, I probably would have burned 250-300. I do weigh quite a bit more than you though. (170)

Today I went to my first step class... and wow, what a work out! I knew I worked my butt off, but I came home and logged it, and MFP tells me 40 minutes was nearly 400 calories. Now, I have no idea if that's true or not as I don't have a HRM, but I wouldn't be surprised.

But 1000 calories!?!? I'd need to be working out for hours...

Wowzers... 1,000 cals in one workout? :noway:

The most I've done in one workout was around 800 cals (an hour of butt kickin tae bo).
So... I see how someone can get up to 1,000.

~Jo :flowerforyou:

I have been seeing various people post that they are burning 1,000+ calories when they are working out and I was wondering what everyone is doing. I consider myself pretty active, I workout 6 days a week for 45 minutes to an hour and I burn between 300-425 per workout (I mostly run). I wonder also if it has to do with how much I weigh, right now I am 132, so it stands to reason that I may not burn as many in the same about of time as others. I would like to get up to burning about 500-600 calories per day, I know that means I have to log more time, but if anyone has any input about what they do and how long they do it to scorch calories, I'm all ears!


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I burn 600-900 calories per gym session I am trucking it litterally- I do cardio and weight training and even when I am hitting the weights I maintain a high heart rate-- I workout for an hour to an hour and a half 4-5 days a week- I need to kick it up to 2 hours 6 days a week though.

I have burned 1100 calories before though-

You can burn alot of calories if your really really pushing yourself- I am not allowed to leave the gym unless I burn no less than 500 calories but if I only burn 500 I don't feel as if I performed to my best ability at the gym and I didn't push hard enough

wow 1000 calories i dont even come close. speaking of knowing how many calories you burn doing whateer exercise it may be do you just buy a heart rate monitor and how does that work telling you how many calories you burned?

Playing basketball for an hour can burn around 750 calories.

Today I burned 2200 calories, but I spend over 4 hours at the gym. I am a stay at home mom, so I have plenty of time during the day to workout. I did 1.5 hours on the elliptical trainer. I did 1 hour of water aerobics 1.75 hours lifting weights and .5 hour walking. I split my time up into 2 sessions. I burn the most calories on the elliptical trainer. I burn almost 13 calories per minute but I weigh 211 pounds and I work very hard on the elliptical.

I can't imagine burning 10000 calories. I'm lucky to get 300 or so a day. I'd probably keel over hitting 1000, if possible.:laugh: :laugh:

Today I burned 800 calories and it was divided between two workouts. The first was a little over an hour of strength training and the second was 40 minutes of cardio.

I'm not sure how people burn much more and eat all those calories. I have a hard enough time fitting in 2 workouts while eating every 3 hours.

You can burn 1,000 calories in one workout; it depends on what you combine.

I shoot for 700 calories burned per work out per day which equals one pound per week weight loss.
(3500 calories burned equals 1 pound loss)

I combine the "30 day shred" with my treadmill (500 on the treadmill and 220-250 doing the video)

Calories expended is based on two factors--aerobic intensity and body weight. Aerobic intensity is expressed in terms of oxygen uptake: milliliters of oxygen per kilogram of body wt per min (ml/kg/min). Another shorthand term that is often used is METS. MET stands for Metabolic Equivalent. One (1) MET is supposed to represent the body's energy at rest, or 3.5 ml/kg/min. It's often used because the numbers are easier to work with: e.g. 8 METS rather than 28 ml/kg/min.

Calories per hour = Intensity (in METS) x Body Wt (in Kilograms).

Burning 1,000 calories per hour is not easy. For example, running a 10:00 mile is about 10-11 METS. In order to burn 1,000 calories per hour at that speed, you need to weigh 98-100 kilos (215-220 lbs).

If you can run an 8:00 mile (12.5 METS), 176 lb is the minimum weight for 1,000 Kcal/hr.

There are established formulae for estimating energy expenditure for walking, incline walking, running, stationary cycling (on an ergometer) and stepping (using real steps). You can also find tables that list estimated levels for a variety of activities. These are usually based on actual measurements on a sample population, so YMMV.

The hardest thing to estimate is a group exercise class because there is so much variation. An HRM that estimates calories--as rough an estimate as it is--is probably the best choice.

Traditional strength training is more difficult, because HR cannot be used as an estimate of aerobic activity--the physiologic mechanism that raises heart rate during strength training is different than during cardio exercise. I don't think you can rely on HRM calorie expenditure readings that are measured during weight lifting.

I weigh 225, and I pound the snot out of an elliptical for 35 minutes straight every morning. Peaks and valleys, never let the heart rate get below 140. I typically sweat out 2 pounds doing this...

450 calories. And that's plenty.

I work out for 1.5 to 2 hrs and burn 600-900 cals