Calories burned

I'm trying to burn everyday (by excercise) 1000+ calories, i always measure my burned calories with my heart rate monitor and i'm hitting approx 1,100 calories in one hour, i have even burned up to 1,600 in 90 minutes. i would like to know if it's healthy to burn this amount of calories in cardio training. Whats your opinion and how much calories do you burn in your cardio training?

wow!! what on earth are you doing?

I usually hit about 500 in 35 minutes when I'm feeling really motivated and energetic and happy on this sweet elliptical contraption at my gym.

As long as you keep your deficit to a healthy number you should be fine.  It's good you like excercising, but to keep a healthy deficit you will have to eat many of those calories back.  Either way you should stick to a defict of 1000 cal or less. 

Healthy?

Honestly, I'm a bit dubious that you're burning that many calories. That's a pretty high number, and that you're doing it every day sort of monkey-(*&$*&# insane, depending on things like age, height, sex, overall atheleticism, et cetera. No, that's a high number for just about anyone. So my first thought is that the number is bad from the source. I mean, after something like that, it'd be hard to do it the next day. Still, assuming it's not a bad figure.

I mean, sure, it's healthy; c.f. Olympic atheletes. That so, it's incredibly unhealthy for the most of us, because it's sounding like one of them exercise ED things, and if you're not compensating it with your food intake, you may kill yourself in a less than impressive manner, or at least subvert any sort of goal you might have behind the working out.

the only way i could think of doing that kind of burn, for nomral adverage people would be long distance road biking.

i remember it said i burning like 1200 calories in 2 hours once, so yes its possible.

But its not hardcore cardio, its alot of peddling.

wait a minute - are you michael phelps?

 

 

Well, i usually combine the elliptical and the stepmill, they really burn a lot of calories. hitting 1,000 calories in one hour in the elliptical is possible, believe me.

well. i think it's not coming from a bad source. my heart rate monitor is almost new. it's even a Polar F6 which is an excellent heart rate monitor. I'm just doing it because i feel like i have the power to do it. You can even try it by yourself, try to do 60-80 minutes some cardio training, like the elliptical or the stepmiller and you'll see how much calories you'll burn.

Depending upon how much sprint training I do, I usually burn between 1000-1200 in 75-90 mins in the pool.  But I can't do those days repeatedly, I usually have one of those days and two days of about 700 in the same time.

It's not a good idea to train at that level daily -- your body needs rest to recuperate.  If you spend too many days doing that not only will you be in danger of over-training, you will also start to tear down your body (which is, essentially, over-training)

You will also have to work harder and longer to burn the same number of calories, as you lose weight and become more fit.

i burned 1000 cals horseback riding for two hours (jumping).  I also burned 1000 cals doing yard work (mowing and hedges) for 90 minutes.

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wait a minute - are you michael phelps?

Are you looking to build a shrine, yogini? (giggles)