how many calories do 'YOU' aim to burn for work outs?

I will not burn less than 850 at every workout, but my newest goal is to hit 1000 every time

When I went for metabolic testing, I was told between 300-500. But, I can never stay in that range. I always do around 600 per workout so I look at that as my goal; anything over 500 but under 650.

I usually hit 600+ when I do cardio, I did 620 on the treadmill yesterday and 616 on the ellipitical today. That's a 32 minute workout with a 5 minute cool down. My HRM tells me that I stay in the 140's on the ellipitical and get up to 160-165 on the treadmill.

I try to break 800 with cardio machines.

I'm naughty and know it's bad but I will not leave the gym until I've done 1,000 calories. Each and every week day, and weekends too if I'm not working. And I rarely eat it back. The staff at the gym are always making fun of me for being there more than them, but it's social for me more than anything plus I won an Adidas Challenge for exercising the most in 6 weeks, which gave me an Adidas shopping spree and training session with Michelle Bridges from the Biggest Loser. My husband is always away for work, more than he is home, so it gives me something to do at night cause lord knows that if I just go home and sit on the lounge I could easily EAT those 1,000 calories without even noticing...

So yes, 1,000+ each day.

It's a game for me, if I am feeling hungry and want to pig out I do aim for as many calories burned possible but I am usually just happy that I could find the time at all to exercise. My average cardio workout is around 550 I think.

I used to try to get a certain number, now I don't care. I have a strength training program that I do to maintain my muscle while I lose weight. I do cardio to improve my fitness level and eventually begin training for a marathon. I use my diet to meet my nutritional needs and to maintain my average 500 calorie per day deficit. I think shooting for a certain number on your HRM might cause you to focus on cardio and HIIT and neglect strength training, because those burn more calories while you are doing it. But, strength training preserves your metabolism, burns more calories AFTER you do it (which wouldn't be recorded on the HRM), and makes your body look great after you've lost the weight as opposed to "skinny fat".

This!

For an hour workout - I try to burn at least 400 calories, I vary on my workouts, I get bored easy, since I am a junk food addict I also try to make it a goal to burn at least 400 which equals to a meal ---

I aim for at least 500 and up to 800. I eat my exercise calories back; I like food and I enjoy the exercise!

In general I think its better to look for quality rather than quantity and think about what you are trying to acheive long term.

Last year I started running and that means that I'd usually burn 300 - 500 on an average day and 7-800 or more on a long run weekend day.

But, this year I'm focusing on strength as well as speed so I'm doing a lot more stretching and lifting which doesn't burn anywhere that number of cals, but I'm feeling great for it and noticing that my pants are getting loser even though the scale isn't going down.

I also think its really important to have at least one rest day a week, so that means that means no extra cals over my usual
"lightly active" setting daily cals. I usually schedule that during the week, not on a weekend day when i want to have a beer or we are eating out.

Depends on what I am doing... but try to stay realistic.

I know a general 30 min Jillian Video I will burn about 200ish. But I long hike I hope to burn 900... but dont alway hit that mark.

but I don't feel bad about it either. Any burn is better than none.

What people burn while exercising varies from person to person. Pointless to compare yourself to anyone else.

I try to burn between 200 & 300 with cardio (takes about 30-40 minutes,depending on the level of difficulty) and another 200 with weight lifting & resistance machines, usually takes about another 30-40 min..but I hear ya, I feel like sometimes its not enough to get the job done

I aim for at least 400 calories 5-6 days a week. I use a HRM to get a fairly accurate count. Before using it, I thought I was burning a lot more calories than I actually was. But it takes me 60 minutes on average to reach that 400 cal mark on the elliptical or doing zumba so it is pretty difficult to get much more in a day.

^^^^^ this. I love my HRM but it gave me a reality check!

I usually do anything up to 200, sometimes as little as 30, depending how much time I have and how motivated I'm feeling. Plus, usually I walk to and from work which burns 500 calories four days a week. Haven't done that in almost a month due to me being ill and then my fiance being ill.

I'd far rather burn 40 calories in 10-15 minutes on a day when I'm not feeling motivated and running low on time than force myself to fit in a larger burn and end up hating exercise - I've been trying to commit to certain exercises and certain burns for about 16 months now and never enjoyed it, but got a HRM a few weeks ago and I'm learning to like my exercise now that I can add more variety and I'm not trying to do loads.