How to burn 1000 cals fast!

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  • dzilobommo
    dzilobommo Posts: 73 Member
    It may be tough, but you aren't going to burn 1000 calories doing that work out.

    Like most proslytizers, he is overstating the "afterburn effects". 200-300 calories over 72 hours? That's 3 days. Impossible to attribute changes in calorie burn to one variable over than length of time-not to mention the fact that we are only talking about 3-4 calories AN HOUR.

    I don't understand why people need to do this. It's a good, tough whole-body workout. Why puff it up with a bunch of BS?

    The voice of reason, as usual - thank you! :flowerforyou:

    I wonder how many people forget that the amount of calories burnt depends on weight (at 130lbs I'm also never going to burn 1000 kcal an hour!) and that machines, HRMs etc. are not necessarily accurate, especially if they're showing a suspiciously massive calorie burn for a moderate workout...(or conversely, a suspiciously low number despite muscles shaking and being out of breath) :smile:
  • nhorton5
    nhorton5 Posts: 32 Member
    I don't think I'll burn 1000 cals but I am tempted to try this workout to see how quickly it kills me...
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    At my weight, 115 lbs, I'd have to run almost 12mph or a 5 min/mile pace for an hour to burn 1000 calories. With that pace I would have blown away the women's field at the recent marathon Olympic trials and beat most of the men. Last I checked I wasn't an Olympic level elite. So, yeah, there's no workout that I can actually perform that would have me burn 1000 calories an hour.

    If I weighed 200 lbs and could run 10 min miles (my normal easy running pace), now we're talking. ;)

    Carry some weights on your run!

    I have been advised against this as it distorts your balance and can lead to stress injuries.
  • fteale
    fteale Posts: 5,310 Member
    i BURN OVER 1,000 PER HOUR SPINNING 9HIP HOP BOOT CAMP STYLE), CYCLING AND ALSO KICKBOXING.

    The bigger someone is, the more calories they burn doing the same activity. That's just simple physics. At 5'2" and 125 pounds I doubt I could burn 1000 calories an hour doing anything, including this workout.

    Ditto. I burned 434 cals running 7 miles at 7mph this morning.

    Just over 60 calories per mile - you must weigh 90 lbs. or something! I burn literally twice as much per mile as you!

    I weigh 120 ish. I guess I must be quite fit!

    According to the ACSM energy prediction equations, at your weight and that speed, the calorie burn is about 640 for the workout. I don't know how you got your numbers---if you are using an HRM, I'll bet it does not have your actual VO2 max calculated correctly. You are probably at 45-50 ml/kg/min and I'm sure it thinks you are lower. Don't know if there is any way you can update your settings, but I do think you are underestimating your calories a bit.

    I know that according to every calculation out there I should burn far more. But according to my HRM, it's 434 cals for 7 miles. And it has my height, weight, resting (44 bpm) and max (201) HR in there (I have a Garmin 610, top of the range), so I'll go with that!
  • minlyn22
    minlyn22 Posts: 104 Member
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  • jturnerx
    jturnerx Posts: 325 Member
    At my weight, 115 lbs, I'd have to run almost 12mph or a 5 min/mile pace for an hour to burn 1000 calories. With that pace I would have blown away the women's field at the recent marathon Olympic trials and beat most of the men. Last I checked I wasn't an Olympic level elite. So, yeah, there's no workout that I can actually perform that would have me burn 1000 calories an hour.

    If I weighed 200 lbs and could run 10 min miles (my normal easy running pace), now we're talking. ;)

    Carry some weights on your run!

    That would be the dumbest thing I could possibly do.
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