People who are burning 1000+ calories a day

A few thoughts on calorie burns:

1. Anything from a machine at the gym is wrong by a large percentage. MFP is originally off too.

2. I use a HRM with a chest strap (FT7) to determine my burn. But I use it with the understanding that it might be off too. Keep in mind all we're doing here is estimating anyway. However, the only time I have not been successful using the FT7 with MFP is when I don't follow the nutrition plan. In other words, the errors are mine, not the FT7. Also, remember to back out the calories you would have burned anyway for your exercise duruation. After manually entering my HRM calories into MFP for a few months, MFP adjusted the ratios on those activities.

3. Do not compare your calories burns to someone else. Every person has a different weight and body composition. Your calorie burn is as unique as you are.

4. Do not develop your fitness plan around what burns the most calories. Determine what your fitness goals are, and come with a plan to reach those goals while taking into account activities that you enjoy. If the ONLY reason you want to be a runner is it "burns a ton of calories", you'll either find something else to like about running, or you'll stop running.

I get on a road bike, and ride between 30 and 60 miles in 2 to 4 hours. Thats 1000 to 2000+ calories, depending on the hill climbs.

I'm going all out each time. Circuit cardio drills. Circuit lifting drills. If I get on the treadmill, I don't go slower than 6.0, and I do the hills workout. You'll feel that. I have a sequence of things I do in one of my small blogs. Good luck!

^^^ Largely the same here. I get an hour to exercise daily during the week (lunch break). Family obligations pretty much eliminate exercise at any other time during the week - I COULD get up before 5AM and do something, or work out after 9PM, but both are just miserable for me.

So I hustle it to the workout room when lunch starts, get on a machine, get my heart rate up as high as I can at a reasonable warmup pace, then concentrate on keeping my heartrate as high as I can sustain it for the remainder of a 45-50 minute workout, cool down briefly and stretch, shower, and hustle back to my desk.

A few thoughts on calorie burns:

1. Anything from a machine at the gym is wrong by a large percentage. MFP is originally off too.

2. I use a HRM with a chest strap (FT7) to determine my burn. But I use it with the understanding that it might be off too. Keep in mind all we're doing here is estimating anyway. However, the only time I have not been successful using the FT7 with MFP is when I don't follow the nutrition plan. In other words, the errors are mine, not the FT7. Also, remember to back out the calories you would have burned anyway for your exercise duruation. After manually entering my HRM calories into MFP for a few months, MFP adjusted the ratios on those activities.

3. Do not compare your calories burns to someone else. Every person has a different weight and body composition. Your calorie burn is as unique as you are.

4. Do not develop your fitness plan around what burns the most calories. Determine what your fitness goals are, and come with a plan to reach those goals while taking into account activities that you enjoy. If the ONLY reason you want to be a runner is it "burns a ton of calories", you'll either find something else to like about running, or you'll stop running.

^this guy talks a lot of sense

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4. Do not develop your fitness plan around what burns the most calories. Determine what your fitness goals are, and come with a plan to reach those goals while taking into account activities that you enjoy. If the ONLY reason you want to be a runner is it "burns a ton of calories", you'll either find something else to like about running, or you'll stop running.

This is perfect right here. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, it won't work forever. It is too hard to stay motivated to do something you don't like, just to get a calorie burn. I want to be able to run long distances again. I have been adding interval training to get my endurance up so I can add distance and speed. I want to do this, it just happens to burn a lot of calories for me right now. Find activities that you like, that you will keep doing.

I love what I do, it wasn't until I started using my hrm that I noticed that what I love happens to burn a lot of calories for me.

ZUMBA or cardio kickboxing! Altho some people will argue you can't burn that much in a hour. I sweat buckets doing both and have had people verify that it is possible to burn over 1000 cal in 65-75 min doing either of these!

It will also depend on your hight, weight, intensity, etc. I do an hour of cardio kickboxing 2-3x week, sweat like crazy, and work really hard. However, i use my HRM and get a burn of 315-400cals, usually under 350. For an hour.
For what its worth, i am female, 32, 5'1", 147lbs. Someone who is 200lbs will burn far more than me in that time, but i have never had a calorie burn higher than 500cals or so, and thats with a good hour and a half to two hours!

I run 10-12 miles at a 7:30 pace.

Boxing/kickboxing for 45-60 minutes will destroy calories

When I'm one of those folks I'm riding the bike. A couple hours in the saddle can burn a ton of calories. I don't drive, so I ride everywhere, and it all adds up.

Admittedly, I also ride pretty hard. I rarely clock less than 14 MPH moving average -- on serious training rides I clock 18+ MPH moving average.

If I know I'm going to go out for pizza or whatever, I'll put in an extra hour or two of intense riding so I can 'buy' the calories to enjoy whatever I'm eating without worrying about it.

Long runs and walks will do it, too.

I don't burn 1000+ calories often, but when I do it's usually because of a 2-3 hour hike in the mountains.

wow! I must be totally doing it all wrong!!!!! I'm sooo disappointed that I'm not burning that many calories, especially for a Saturday night that I want to go out and have drinks.

I'm 32 yrs old, 5 feet tall and weight 121lbs.

I do P90X and burn about 300 calories, running for 50 mins about 6.5km burn about 500 calories, ice hockey about 450 calories, treadmill 50 mins about 350 calories, Les Mills Combat class at the gym, about 525 calories.

I have a heart rate monitor that I use every time with a chest strap.

What do you think I'm doing wrong? Please help?

Nothing at all. Sorry. It sounds like you are doing it about right.

I'm 6' 3" and weigh 218. The extra hundred pounds I have means I burn more calories moving it around, and I've got a larger muscle base to burn those calories, given that I weigh almost twice what you do.

If you've got your chest strap calibrated properly for your height and weight, then it's probably giving you decent numbers.

Maybe do a planned calorie spike for the weekend? Save 100 calories or so a day during the week, and you'll have 500 calories to "spend" on the weekends?

little bits like us don't get crazy high burns!

The only time I hit over 1k calories a day was when I did 60+ minute high intense cardio at the gym. I was also 230 lbs so I will burn more calories then someone smaller then me.

I ride a stationary bike at 17 mph for 30 minute clips at a time. Burns about 460 calories each 30 minutes and I *try* to get in 3 rides a day.

Oh yeah, and I'm 5'11" and weigh 192 right now so I burn more than what MFP estimates. I don't change the log to reflect that though. I know what I burn because I use a HRM. The monitor on my bike is wayyyy off so I wear a separate one. I ride a Diamondback 510U.

I'm hitting 1000cals on the Elliptical Trainer in an hour (mind you i look possessed on it)

Starting weight 135kg, now down to 94kg = (297pounds down to 206.8)

Much depends on how much you weigh, as well. When I was 250, I could burn 1000 walking for about 80 minutes, now at 200 I have to walk about 110 minutes to get the same. A 150 lb. woman is going to have to walk dor 2.5 hours to get the same.