Major calorie burning

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  • IronmanPanda
    IronmanPanda Posts: 2,083 Member
    I can do it.

    You gone for a test? Or is this a HRM reading?

    Also a large person couldnt do this, they would not be able to keep the intenisty for that long.

    HRM reading, but I've also compared my HRM readings to other HRM and weight/distance calculations and they all fall pretty close to one another.

    In a 3 hour race I'll pass 3k calories.

    I take that back. Looking at my last race I was under 3k. Oh well. I used to be able to do it.
  • toocool0085
    toocool0085 Posts: 3 Member
    Depending on how much you weigh and how tall you are all depends on how much you can burn per hour. I started doing boxing and they say you can burn up to 800-1000 an hour. The classes are an hour long and I enter 800 per class into MFP. It is all about the intensity at which you exercise at. When you feel like there is a wall when your doing an exercise, push through it. That is the only way possible to 1000 per hour. As the lactic acid builds up in your muscles and its hurting, you just keep pushing and pushing and never let up, you can reach that goal. Although, there is no way to measure how many you actually burn, you will know if you work to the best of your ability at a certain level. Plus, 800-1000 calories is only 200 calories, you can run 2 miles and achieve that.

    Kev:smile:
  • Jennvandemark
    Jennvandemark Posts: 179 Member
    I am 300+ and can burn 1000 with an hour of swimming laps. Of course as the weight comes off it will be harder and harder to do this.
  • mr_rat
    mr_rat Posts: 35 Member
    IDK...i've burned 500 calories in 30 minutes, i am considered morbidly obese. I think I could burn 1000 in an hour if i could keep my HR up around 140. I would think the bigger you are the easier it would be honestly
  • maryhegdal
    maryhegdal Posts: 6
    The only way I've burned over 1,000 calories is when I do a 30 mile bike ride that takes about 3hrs, traveling at 14-16mph. For me, I've found that doing spin classes burns more calories for the time that other exercise.
  • tappae
    tappae Posts: 568 Member
    I have no idea if it's accurate, but my heart rate monitor has reported over 1000 calories in an hour quite a few times. Usually, I was doing interval training or mixtures of speed work, running hills, martial arts exercises and simple body-weight exercises and running hard between the stations. My favorite workout is a greenway in a park near my house that has lots of stations (step-ups, leg raises, sit-ups, push-ups, chin-ups, dips, jumping, vaulting, monkey bars and even a ladder to climb over). I can apparently burn 1000 calories doing a few miles of that.

    According to the MFP database, I would have to maintain an 8-minute mile for an hour to burn 1000, which I haven't quite done, but I have run 7 miles in under an hour, which gave me 925 in the database.

    Edit: I should say that I'm not that big; "normal" by BMI, but "obese" by body fat % estimates.
  • christinastokes3
    christinastokes3 Posts: 36 Member
    I have does this a few times at the gym, according to the Arc machine I have used. It was going full out and working as hard as I could. I wouldn't want to have that type of workout everyday!
  • Swissmiss
    Swissmiss Posts: 8,754 Member
    It appears that this can be done by a person who is quite heavy. I didn't take that into consideration. I also believe that for an accurate count an HRM, set to a person's own information, is needed. Going by the count on the machines at a gym wouldn't take into account your age, weight, etc. I truly would love to burn that many calories in an hour. The most I have even burned was about 475.

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