How many calories do you burn through the course of a normal routine?

[EvilYoda]

Just curious, I'm sure someone here has some general numbers. Obviously it varies depending on what body parts, intensity, blah blah.

So let's say that on a given day, it's a 2 body part workout. Each body part gets 4-5 exercises at 3-4 sets each at 6-8 reps. So, say it's chest and back day or back and bi's.

The question popped into my head the other day and just now remembered to ask.

 

[KoolDrew]

So let's say that on a given day, it's a 2 body part workout. Each body part gets 4-5 exercises at 3-4 sets each at 6-8 reps. So, say it's chest and back day or back and bi's.

If you're doing 4-5 exercises per bodypart, you have other things to worry about rather than how many calories you're burning.

 

[EvilYoda]

I'm not exactly worried about anything and that was just an example anyway...sorry all-mighty and all-knowing KoolDrew. Thanks for the great answer though 😛

 

[Crono]

My workout is more cardio centered, and I burn about 1,800 - 2,200 calories for a 2 hour session.

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: Crono
My workout is more cardio centered, and I burn about 1,800 - 2,200 calories for a 2 hour session.

And what cardio are you doing? Seems excessive.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

Originally posted by: Crono
My workout is more cardio centered, and I burn about 1,800 - 2,200 calories for a 2 hour session.

And what cardio are you doing? Seems excessive.

1 hr 15 min stationary bike, 45 minutes treadmill. I probably eat like 1,600 calories worth of food right after, so I'm not losing as much weight as I should be 😱

 

[SociallyChallenged]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

Originally posted by: Crono
My workout is more cardio centered, and I burn about 1,800 - 2,200 calories for a 2 hour session.

And what cardio are you doing? Seems excessive.

1 hr 15 min stationary bike, 45 minutes treadmill. I probably eat like 1,600 calories worth of food right after, so I'm not losing as much weight as I should be 😱

Are you training for something or do you just do this for kicks? Or do you just do it to eat? 😛 Oh, just read you're trying to lose weight. You can lose weight way easier if you control your diet better and cut back the cardio... At least, that's my personal opinion since all that cardio can burn your muscle right off.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

Originally posted by: Crono
My workout is more cardio centered, and I burn about 1,800 - 2,200 calories for a 2 hour session.

And what cardio are you doing? Seems excessive.

1 hr 15 min stationary bike, 45 minutes treadmill. I probably eat like 1,600 calories worth of food right after, so I'm not losing as much weight as I should be 😱

Are you training for something or do you just do this for kicks? Or do you just do it to eat? 😛 Oh, just read you're trying to lose weight. You can lose weight way easier if you control your diet better and cut back the cardio... At least, that's my personal opinion since all that cardio can burn your muscle right off.

Doing it to lose weight, and overcome asthma. It's working so far. I control my diet, too, but sometimes I overdo it with quantity. My diet is pretty healthy, though, and protein rich, so I haven't been losing muscle (or at least not that much). I'm not worrying about gaining muscle at this point, I just want to reduce my fat % as much as possible, and my diet and exercise is (somewhat slowly, 20 lbs over past year) taking care of that.

EDIT: The exercise bike also gives me an excuse to watch TV shows. I watch Heroes, Naruto, Prison Break, etc. while on it 😛

 

[KoolDrew]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
I'm not exactly worried about anything and that was just an example anyway...sorry all-mighty and all-knowing KoolDrew. Thanks for the great answer though 😛

Fair enough. To answer your question, the calorie burn during weight training isn't likely to be much (sorry, I don't have a number, too many variables), and the energy used is pretty much completely by carbohydrates, not fatty acids. However, resistance training (mainly higher rep work) still does have an effect on fat loss by depleting muscle glycogen. In order for FFA's to burned for energy it has to be transported into the tissue by an enzyme called CPT (look up the full name if you wish). CPT activity is directly correlated with muscle glycogen (as well as liver glycogen). When muscle glycogen is depleted, CPT activity rises, as well as fat oxidation. This is one advantage of higher-rep metabolic type training as well as lowered carbohydrates. So while the calories burned during weight lifting is completely by carbohydrates (which is why calorie burn isn't likely to be high during the activity), it does result in increased fat oxidation .

Weight training has an added effect on fat mobilization as well. The primary hormones which activate HSL (the enzyme that controls how quickly fat is mobilized) are the catecholamines: adrenaline and noradrenaline. Both of which are released during high intensity training and continue to rise as intensity rises, helping fatty acids get mobilized out of the fat cells, resulting in a large amount of FFA's floating around in the bloodstream. However, since higher intensity exercise does not burn fatty acids for fuel, instead using glucose, the FFA's have to be burned through other means. So while the weight training does nice things as far as mobilization goes, it should be followed with lower intensity work in order to take advantage of that and burn the FFA's. This is one of the reasons low-moderate cardio is recommended after weight training.

So weight training may not burn many calories while doing the activity, but it will have an effect on both fat mobilization and oxidation which is definitely helpful if your goal is fat loss.

EDIT - I'd also like to mention that while higher rep weight training will create such responses that do help fat loss, it doesn't do much as far as maintaining muscle mass goes. So if you only chose one type of weight training, it should be heavy weights with low reps. However, using both methods can have great metabolic and hormonal effects while still maintaining lean body mass.

 

[EvilYoda]

Originally posted by: KoolDrew

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
I'm not exactly worried about anything and that was just an example anyway...sorry all-mighty and all-knowing KoolDrew. Thanks for the great answer though 😛

Fair enough. To answer your question, the calorie burn during weight training isn't likely to be much (sorry, I don't have a number, too many variables), and the energy used is pretty much completely by carbohydrates, not fatty acids. However, resistance training (mainly higher rep work) still does have an effect on fat loss by depleting muscle glycogen. In order for FFA's to burned for energy it has to be transported into the tissue by an enzyme called CPT (look up the full name if you wish). CPT activity is directly correlated with muscle glycogen (as well as liver glycogen). When muscle glycogen is depleted, CPT activity rises, as well as fat oxidation. This is one advantage of higher-rep metabolic type training as well as lowered carbohydrates. So while the calories burned during weight lifting is completely by carbohydrates (which is why calorie burn isn't likely to be high during the activity), it does result in increased fat oxidation .

Weight training has an added effect on fat mobilization as well. The primary hormones which activate HSL (the enzyme that controls how quickly fat is mobilized) are the catecholamines: adrenaline and noradrenaline. Both of which are released during high intensity training and continue to rise as intensity rises, helping fatty acids get mobilized out of the fat cells, resulting in a large amount of FFA's floating around in the bloodstream. However, since higher intensity exercise does not burn fatty acids for fuel, instead using glucose, the FFA's have to be burned through other means. So while the weight training does nice things as far as mobilization goes, it should be followed with lower intensity work in order to take advantage of that and burn the FFA's. This is one of the reasons low-moderate cardio is recommended after weight training.

So weight training may not burn many calories while doing the activity, but it will have an effect on both fat mobilization and oxidation which is definitely helpful if your goal is fat loss.

EDIT - I'd also like to mention that while higher rep weight training will create such responses that do help fat loss, it doesn't do much as far as maintaining muscle mass goes. So if you only chose one type of weight training, it should be heavy weights with low reps. However, using both methods can have great metabolic and hormonal effects while still maintaining lean body mass.

Much better! 1000000x.

I wasn't really asking in hopes of anything, I was mostly just curious. I'm looking to burn fat, yes, but that's about 5-7 pounds from 170lb. I've gained probably 8-10 pounds since moving to Phoenix, most of it good, some of it bad. Nothing to be too concerned about, but I'd definitely like to lean up a little.

I do 30-45 minutes of elliptical/stairs/rowing/running/jumping rope after I lift, so I knew that that had particular good effects on burning fat. I'll be switching to a new split and concentrating on new things and hopefully I'm able to bring up some weak areas while burning some fat over the next few months.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

Originally posted by: Crono
My workout is more cardio centered, and I burn about 1,800 - 2,200 calories for a 2 hour session.

And what cardio are you doing? Seems excessive.

1 hr 15 min stationary bike, 45 minutes treadmill. I probably eat like 1,600 calories worth of food right after, so I'm not losing as much weight as I should be 😱

That's a lot of calories being burned in such a short time. I run 9 miles in an hour at level 9 on an Elliptical with my heart rate at 160+ for at least 50 minutes and the calculator says I only burn 750+ calories. Of course I keep burning calories a couple of hours afterwards. Do you calculate the calories you burn after the immediate exercise in that total ?

 

[Special K]

Trying to determine the actual number of calories burned during exercise is futile. There are charts that give estimates of calories burned for different activities, but there is a large amount of variation from one person to the next, so these estimates aren't very helpful. It's far better to stick to what you can measure - your caloric intake and your weight first thing each morning.

Many cardio machines also have a "calories burned" meter on them, but these are just spitting out generic estimates based on your inputted height, weight, speed, etc. They have no idea how many calories your body is actually burning during exercise.

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

Originally posted by: Crono
My workout is more cardio centered, and I burn about 1,800 - 2,200 calories for a 2 hour session.

And what cardio are you doing? Seems excessive.

1 hr 15 min stationary bike, 45 minutes treadmill. I probably eat like 1,600 calories worth of food right after, so I'm not losing as much weight as I should be 😱

That's a lot of calories being burned in such a short time. I run 9 miles in an hour at level 9 on an Elliptical with my heart rate at 160+ for at least 50 minutes and the calculator says I only burn 750+ calories. Of course I keep burning calories a couple of hours afterwards. Do you calculate the calories you burn after the immediate exercise in that total ?

I do 22 mph, medium resistance for the bike (w/sporadic bursting), and 2.6 to 3mph with max incline on the treadmill. The treadmill says I burn 400 to 600 calories, and the bike I am using doesn't have a calorie counter, so I estimate it to be 1,200 (actually, fitness calculators say its higher, but I discount the number by a bit - I would rather be deluded into thinking I am burning less rather than more). I don''t calculate the calories burned afterward, and never even thought to do so. I really need to get a heart rate monitor, but don't have the money at the moment to get a decent one.

I don't workout every day, usually only 4 or 5 days a week depending on my schedule.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

Originally posted by: Crono
My workout is more cardio centered, and I burn about 1,800 - 2,200 calories for a 2 hour session.

And what cardio are you doing? Seems excessive.

1 hr 15 min stationary bike, 45 minutes treadmill. I probably eat like 1,600 calories worth of food right after, so I'm not losing as much weight as I should be 😱

That's a lot of calories being burned in such a short time. I run 9 miles in an hour at level 9 on an Elliptical with my heart rate at 160+ for at least 50 minutes and the calculator says I only burn 750+ calories. Of course I keep burning calories a couple of hours afterwards. Do you calculate the calories you burn after the immediate exercise in that total ?

I do 22 mph, medium resistance for the bike (w/sporadic bursting), and 2.6 to 3mph with max incline on the treadmill. The treadmill says I burn 400 to 600 calories, and the bike I am using doesn't have a calorie counter, so I estimate it to be 1,200 (actually, fitness calculators say its higher, but I discount the number by a bit - I would rather be deluded into thinking I am burning less rather than more). I don''t calculate the calories burned afterward, and never even thought to do so. I really need to get a heart rate monitor, but don't have the money at the moment to get a decent one.

I don't workout every day, usually only 4 or 5 days a week depending on my schedule.

Well I think you are vastly over estimating the calories you are burning, maybe you should cut down on the calories you are consuming after your workout if you want to drop some weight.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: Crono

Originally posted by: SociallyChallenged

Originally posted by: Crono
My workout is more cardio centered, and I burn about 1,800 - 2,200 calories for a 2 hour session.

And what cardio are you doing? Seems excessive.

1 hr 15 min stationary bike, 45 minutes treadmill. I probably eat like 1,600 calories worth of food right after, so I'm not losing as much weight as I should be 😱

That's a lot of calories being burned in such a short time. I run 9 miles in an hour at level 9 on an Elliptical with my heart rate at 160+ for at least 50 minutes and the calculator says I only burn 750+ calories. Of course I keep burning calories a couple of hours afterwards. Do you calculate the calories you burn after the immediate exercise in that total ?

I do 22 mph, medium resistance for the bike (w/sporadic bursting), and 2.6 to 3mph with max incline on the treadmill. The treadmill says I burn 400 to 600 calories, and the bike I am using doesn't have a calorie counter, so I estimate it to be 1,200 (actually, fitness calculators say its higher, but I discount the number by a bit - I would rather be deluded into thinking I am burning less rather than more). I don''t calculate the calories burned afterward, and never even thought to do so. I really need to get a heart rate monitor, but don't have the money at the moment to get a decent one.

I don't workout every day, usually only 4 or 5 days a week depending on my schedule.

Well I think you are vastly over estimating the calories you are burning, maybe you should cut down on the calories you are consuming after your workout if you want to drop some weight.

Yep I agree. It's all about portion control and learning to control what you eat. Break down your meals into 5-7 smaller portions a day. Hell after a workout you really just need to get some fast digesting carbs and protein. What the hell is this guy eating that's 1600 calories right after a workout? Jesus christ...that's like a McDonalds value meal. :|

On my long runs - the longest I've run so far is 16, w/ 18 this coming Saturday. Even after that and considering my body burns up everything I throw at it, I still portion control what I'm taking in, albeit more that day to try to keep the weight on.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
What the hell is this guy eating that's 1600 calories right after a workout? Jesus christ...that's like a McDonalds value meal. :|.

You were not really mad were you? If you were, I'll make you crazy, I ate a whole pound of sliced garlic bologna plus 1/4lb provolone on Italian, today. :evil:

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER

Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
What the hell is this guy eating that's 1600 calories right after a workout? Jesus christ...that's like a McDonalds value meal. :|.

You were not really mad were you? If you were, I'll make you crazy, I ate a whole pound of sliced garlic bologna plus 1/4lb provolone on Italian, today. :evil:

lol no that was the wrong emoticon. 🙂 I bet the splats you inevitably have tomorrow morning will make you wish you hadn't 😛