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I weigh 225lbs. How may calories an hour does weight training burn?
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| Asked By Mr. Libraryman |
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Mr. Libraryman, When you sign up to use fatburn.com you will find multiple entries for almost any kind of exercise you can do in the gym or out. We have many listings for weight lifting because of its different forms. For you, general weight lifting will burn about 322 calories per hour. Heavy weight lifting will burn about 644 per hour. Circuit training will burn about 859 calories per hour. We keep using "about" because we would need to know your height to give you an accurate number. If your goal is to lose a few pounds it's our job to tell you that knowing how many calories you burn during exercise is only a small fraction of what you need to know to effectively lose weight. We designed fatburn.com to give you the whole package. By using our system you can easily find out the total amount of calories you eat each day. Then we make it simple to find the total amount of calories you burn daily. This will change every day because of stress, workday activity and exercise. Finally, we summarize your day and let you know if you've burned the minimum amount of calories you require to lose the weight you want in the time frame you requested. Check out our See Results tab on the home page. All these great success stories achieved their results by following our simple yet extremely effective system. The key to your success is in you learning how to eat the foods you like inside the formula that allows you to lose weight. Once you know how your body works you will always be in control. Give fatburn.com a try. You will be impressed! |
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How many calories do push-ups burn? |
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| Asked By Anonymous |
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Thanks for the question. If you sign on to fatburn.com and use the Activities Page you will find push-ups, along with just about every exercise you can do. To give you a ball park figure, a woman that weighs 130 pounds will burn 8 calories per minute and a man that weighs 180 pounds will burn 11 calories per minute. Be aware that this would be quite a task. We don't know many people that can do push-ups for minutes at a time. The calorie burn we just gave you is for the actual time of exercise. So when you're resting between sets of push-ups the caloric count decreases significantly. We hope this answers your question. Feel free to ask again. |
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My question is..I'm a little confused with burning 500 more calories then you eat each day..does that mean if I eat 1500 calories a day, I have to burn 2000? or just burn 500? because I may be wrong, but isn't 2000 calories alot to be burning each day? please help me out with this, thank you. |
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| Asked By Sara |
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Sara, you're right on with what we suggest. If you eat 1,500 calories today you need to burn a minimum of 2,000 calories today if you want to stay on track with losing a pound per week. The minimum requirement of burning 500 calories more than you eat each day is set because in order to lose 1 pound a week you need to burn a minimum of 3,500 calories more than you consume for the week. Seven days of the week x 500 calories burned (more than you eat each day) equals 3,500 calories. When you do this you will lose 1 pound. You may be getting a little confused because you think that the entire 2,000 calories you burn each day comes from exercise. Well, you would have to exercise a lot in order to burn 2,000 calories, in fact, about 4 hours a day! It's important for you to know that the largest caloric burn you will get for the day is from your basal metabolic rate. This is the amount of calories your body will burn for just being alive. The average woman burns between 1,200 and 1,600 calories a day naturally. For example, let's say that you fall in the middle at 1,400 calories for your daily metabolic rate (basal metabolic rate + workday activities + stress levels) If you eat 1,500 calories for the day you will have to burn off the next 600 through exercise in order to reach your target caloric burn of 2,000. This would require about an hour of aerobic training. We developed fatburn.com to easily track all this information for you. The Meals Page makes it simple for you to find out how many calories you're consuming. We have over 17,000 foods in our database (and growing!). You can save the meals you eat most often and the Favorites Tab stores the last 100 foods you choose from the database. All this makes determining your caloric totals quick and easy. The Activities Page combines your daily metabolic rate with your exercise and quickly calculates your total caloric burn. The key to our system, though, is the Summary Page. This is where you find out if you achieved your daily goal of 500 calories burned...or your weekly goal of 3,500 calories. Use fatburn.com every day, meet the minimum requirements and the pounds will come off! Yes. It really is that easy! We hope this answers your question. If you have any others please feel free to write. |
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Hi, I have heard that the places you put on weight last, you loose first. And for me this is starting to look like the case.I last put on weight on my back, and now its almost all gone there, but as for other places its still there. Once i loose the weight off my back, will the other areas start to decrease? or am i completely wrong on this one? thanks |
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| Asked By Maria |
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Maria, Your thinking is right on. When you lose weight it comes off all over the body in equal amounts. Think of your extra body fat in layers. For example, let’s say you have five layers around your hips, three around your arms and two on your back. As your body uses stored fat as energy it draws equally from all these areas. When you burn off a layer of fat you will now have four around your hips, two around your arms and one on your back. What really happens is the cellulite cells begin to shrink (as the adipose tissue inside is used for energy) and it becomes smaller, but the layer example is good for visualizing. When the body fat on your back seems to be gone your body will continue to draw the energy it needs from the other areas of your body. Now this is the important part, the only way you will lose those other layers of body fat (shrink the size of the cells) is to consume fewer calories than you burn. Eat a balanced diet while burning more calories than you eat and the body has to use the body fat as an energy source. This is why we created fatburn.com. Most people have no idea how many calories they are eating verses how many they burn. Use our Meals Page to figure out the total amount of calories you eat each day. Then use our Activities Page to find out how many calories you burn each day. The key to our system is in the Summary Page. This is where you find out whether you are burning enough calories to lose weight. To eliminate one pound of body fat you need to burn 3500 calories. We suggest you reach this number by burning a minimum of 500 calories a day more than you eat. At this rate you will lose one pound a week. We all wish there was an easier way to do this but the facts are the facts and there's no way around them. We at fatburn.com want you to know the truth about weight loss. We want you to learn how to eat the foods you like inside the only formula that allows you to lose weight. All the popular diets (The Zone, The Atkin's Diet, Sugar Busters, Carb Addicts ect.) have to be a calorie deficit diet. They may wrap it up in some low carb/high protien diet (as if thats new...the first one of these diets came out in 1902) but if you don't burn more calories than you eat you will not lose weight. Please write us again with any other question you may have. |
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I work out daily on my Tony Little Gazelle Glider. It's a combination of swinging with the legs, and pulling with the arms. Where should I log my exercise to get close to what I'm doing? I've been logging it under moderate stationary rowing (because of the arm action) but don't know if that's correct... |
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| Asked By Lori |
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Lori,
We suggest that you use the elliptical trainer as your subsitute for the Gazelle Glider. The motions are very similar. We will research the glidder and find out what the burn rate factor is for you in the future. Keep looking for it in your activities list for the next few weeks. Thanks for the question. |
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