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"working your butt off" Really? A pound of fat is 3500 calories. To work off a thousand calories requires swimming 4000-5000 yards, biking 25-30 miles on a ro
by AtlasBarfed 3y ago
"working your butt off"
Really?
A pound of fat is 3500 calories. To work off a thousand calories requires swimming 4000-5000 yards, biking 25-30 miles on a road bike, or running 7-10 miles.
People need to understand what working your butt off is. High school practice for major sports will burn that for every single practice.
That's working your butt off. Now go to a gym and tell me if you see most people doing that. They aren't.
Add to that you need intensity to cause physiology adaptation which forces more calories in tissue building.
People aren't working their butt off.
For the vast majority of people starting an exercise routine it will be hard to burn even 600 calories in an hour of exercise.
So that means six days of one hour of exercise a day will burn 1 pound of fat ... If you controlled calories intake. Big if.
Ten pounds of fat is:
35000 calories
140,000 yards of swimming (180 lbs person) or about 80 miles of swimming
233 miles of running (180 lb person)
875 miles of biking.
And I may be underestimating.
- elmolino89 3y agoWhile we do burn some extra calories rebuilding muscles after say long session of cardio your numbers (at least for running) for 70kg person are OK. There may be also an appetite suppressing effect of exhausting training sessions. There is no way that not even overweight but a middle aged mostly, sedentary person can do 10 miles runs 6x a week. IMHO one should start with biking and walking which are way easier on the joins and start running after getting to the level when 50km rides are not causing you any problems. This assuming your BMI is not way above 25.
- ofslidingfeet 3y agoSo sixty pounds of fat in one year.
- storkhm 3y agoAs if your body is in the same state after working out than if you had sat on the couch doing nothing. As if the only change happens during the time you are actually working out. As if no calories are being spent recovering from a brutal workout for the next day vs sitting on the couch playing video games. I just don't get it. This stuff is just not that complicated. Just constant wrong information over and over and over.
- AlchemistCamp 3y agoWhen I was on a high school swim team, I found that the calories burned increased dramatically in colder water (both due to thermogenesis and due to it being possible to work harder). Also, we averaged 65k yards/week.
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- AtlasBarfed 3y agoExactly. THAT is "working your butt off". 15,000 calories a week is working your butt off. People need to understand that doing 20-30 minutes on an elliptical, even 7x a week, is not "working your butt off". But that is what people think is "working your butt off". People don't realize how calorically dense our lives our, how sedentary they are, and the actual scale of work necessary to counter that. And once you've spent a decade being sessile, you no longer have the endurance capacity, tendon/ligament strength, or muscles to sustain the work that is needed. So people if they want to do an exercise routine need to become athletes. Athletes train. They don't "exercise". They aren't "active". They train, a word that implies repeated almost seemingly unending repetition. Train, as in having a destination/goal and doing what is necessary to get there.
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- mym1990 3y agoWhich planet do you live on where running a mile burns 300-400 calories???