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How many calories do you burn in an average gym session?

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Depends what you are doing at the gym.

The amount of burned calories is basically irrelevant, though. If you want to lose weight, developing some muscle mass with weight training to combat the decrease in daily caloric expenditure caused by an aggressive caloric deficit is the most important factor.
 
I wish this was remotely accurate.

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I run after I lift. I'm not sure what I'm burning, but I'm putting on muscle weight and it's thinning me out, so I'm encouraged.
 
Around 800 cardio. Not sure how much from weights.
 
Calories burned is kind of a crapshoot. I posted this before and I'll post it again:

Evolution set us up right. We don't burn many calories by doing a moderate amount of activity, which means a small amount of food can get us through the day. If it were the other way around, we wouldn't have survived as a species.

Food should fuel workouts, not the other way around.
 
Lovely Salsa said:
Huh

How do you figure that out from strenght training?

On cardio alone I burn around 400. I do cardio at the end of my sessions
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I was doing strength training but then I started putting on pounds of muscles and right now bringing my weight down is my primary concern so I'm just doing the cardio.
 
Silly question, but does anyone know approximately how many more calories I'd be burning by wearing a 40lb. weight vest while walking than when just walking without any extra encumbrance? I've been using one the past two weeks on two mile walks every other day, but due to the hilliness of my neighborhood, I can't really get much beyond that before completely exhausting myself. (And of course the last bit before I get home is uphill too...)
 
How many did I burn shooting hoops in the hot-ass heat today for about an hour? Ballpark estimate. I have no idea how to gage that sort of thing. Went pretty hard too but the heat made me stop.
 
If your goal is to burn calories in a single gym session, you're doing it inefficiently for the long haul.

The whole point of working out is to increase your ADP>ATP cycle - the speed which your muscles use glucose (which comes usually from increased muscle mass) which increases your "calories out" threshold (specifically the point in which insulin levels tell the body to store glucose as fat, as before then it takes glucose from your caloric intake and fat once caloric intake is used up) which ensures higher fat burn (or maintaining once you're hitting low levels of body fat) as your current caloric intake stays the same.

So that 30 minute run you do vs the 10 mins you spend dead lifting. That dead lifting is going to benefit you more in the long run for fat burn.

Think about this? Do you want to have a daily impact or a much longer impact from your working out? Burning 400 calories a day is OK if you do that every day. But you can work out for 3 months and increase your "calorie out" threshold by 400 and you're not having to do cardio every day to maintain that.
 
No idea with weight training.

I know with cardio it's around 300 calories.

Body composition goals are best done with diet, though.

I also walk 5 miles per day and that's around 600 calories.
 
Real answer: no one has a goddamn clue and they're lying if they tell you otherwise.
 
Astral said:
How much DOES a person burn from weight training anyway?
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Totally depends on the weight training. For example, weighted hip thrusters may burn a lot more calories then bench press from the single exercise, but that's not the goal.

You shouldn't care. Because the only time it would matter, is if you are tracking your calories in, and if so, you shouldn't get into the habit of eating more calories then your goal because you burned or plan to burn those calories. Just go based on your calorie in goal and don't deviate (also if you can track your macro nutrients (proteins, fats, sugars, fibres) and stay with those goals as well).
 
When I'm doing mega sets of different exercises in a row (exercise 1, exercise 2, ... repeat exercise 1) I burn 500-600 with my peak hear rate being 167 . This is measured using a wrist heart rate monitor.

If I'm just doing regular sets, about 300-400. My peak heart rate during those is about 135-144.
 
I honestly have no idea. I just love the way I feel after a good workout. If it improves me physically and mentally that's all that matters.
 
Back when I was going more regularly the cycle machines had heartrate monitors on the handles.

At ten level resistance and 90-100 rpm I was getting between 400-550 per hour based on the tracker on the machine. Always seemed high though.
 
I have done 500 calories in 45 minutes on cardio bikes but that was fairly vigorous. Most of the time I stick to running for around 30 mins, burning around 330 calories. No idea about resistance though.
 
Don't depend on exercise to lose weight for you (that's the purview of a good diet).

Exercise should be to build muscle/frame and to improve stamina/cardiovascular health.
 
400.

I just jog nonstop for half an hour every day.

Working to build on that eventually, but I have a lot going on right now.
 
On my road bike over 3 hrs. About 1,000 / hr. Thats going pretty hard. Avg hr about 150 - 160

45 minute rpm class 500 - 600 depending on how hard i feel like going.
 
I've been doing 30 minute runs for the past six weeks, and I average around 400-500 calories according to my Fitbit. It'll probably go down once I build up more tolerance.

I don't even try to count it on my gym days, how would you?
 
Beardz said:
Guys, I don't know how to say this... but you are all wrong.
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Go on. I'll bite. We realize cardio machines for example are making a best guess based on assumptions about the user and the energy actually used to turn the machines, we realize these are estimates and may be wildly off or reasonably close.

But please continue.
 
The only time I count is when I'm doing cardio (around 500 calories). I have no clue how much I burn while doing weights.
 
Whatever it is, I wish it was less. But I don't get on equipment (or wear anything) that makes an attempt to measure it.

In reality, I need to eat and sleep better. Trying to put on weight (in the form of muscle mass) seems to be a 1 step forward, 2 steps back process for me.
 
Stinkles said:
we realize these are estimates and may be wildly off or reasonably close.
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So you have absolutely no clue... and any numbers posted are almost certainly wrong, probably by a lot.

So why did you take issue with his statement?
 
ElTorro said:
Depends what you are doing at the gym.

The amount of burned calories is basically irrelevant, though. If you want to lose weight, developing some muscle mass with weight training to combat the decrease in daily caloric expenditure caused by an aggressive caloric deficit is the most important factor.
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I've read this post over and over and can't understand the giant last sentence.
 
I've taken 60 minute spinning classes with heart rate monitors and averaged about 600 calories burned.

I've also taken 60 minute Muay Thai classes that are more intense and strenuous and guess I burned 600-800.

I'm now doing Jiu Jitsu and classes run between 90-120 minutes. Intensity can vary but I would guess it's about 500 calories burned in an hour.
 
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