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It's really easy to burn an additional 500+ calories with exercise, which is very significant. Of course it's not a substitute for a proper diet, but it can be

by TillE 12y ago

It's really easy to burn an additional 500+ calories with exercise, which is very significant. Of course it's not a substitute for a proper diet, but it can be a huge factor in weight loss.

Someone1234 12y ago
500 calories in one session? Or over a whole week? In one session it is definitely not "easy." In a whole week it is. If you walked at 2.5 MpH and weighed 160 pounds, it would take you two and a half hours to burn your 500 calories. To me 2.5 hrs is not an "easy" workout. Somewhere between medium to hard (depending on fitness level). A single Big Mac is almost 500 calories, two snickerdoodles are more than 500 calories on average. > Of course it's not a substitute for a proper diet, but it can be a huge factor in weight loss. That's just not true. A single combo from McDonalds could set you back an entire weeks worth of exercise, literally. If you exercised for an hour a day every day, it only takes a single meal to undo most of that weight loss. PS - Exercise is, of course, very important for overall health and a long life. Nobody is arguing otherwise. But for weight loss? Heck no. The maths simply doesn't work at all.
- sdml 12y ago
  It depends on whether you consider intensity or duration to determine how "easy" a workout is. Sure, 2.5 hours is a lot of time to invest, but walking at 2.5 MpH hardly seems strenuous enough to qualify as exercise. A 160 pound person could burn 500 calories in ~40 minutes jogging at a 10 minute per mile pace, and could easily offset a Big Mac in a single day's exercise (not saying that the person should use this to justify eating a Big Mac).
- danhodgins 12y ago
  It is most definitely 'easy' to burn 500+ calories in one session. One hour of squash burns 600+ calories. One hour of running burns 600 ish calories. One hour of cycling burns something like 400-500 calories. No citations for these figures, just going off memory Burning 500+ calories per session is definitely doable - if you are doing the right exercise in the right ways for the right duration.

by TillE 12y ago

It's really easy to burn an additional 500+ calories with exercise, which is very significant. Of course it's not a substitute for a proper diet, but it can be a huge factor in weight loss.

Someone1234 12y ago

500 calories in one session? Or over a whole week? In one session it is definitely not "easy." In a whole week it is. If you walked at 2.5 MpH and weighed 160 pounds, it would take you two and a half hours to burn your 500 calories. To me 2.5 hrs is not an "easy" workout. Somewhere between medium to hard (depending on fitness level). A single Big Mac is almost 500 calories, two snickerdoodles are more than 500 calories on average. > Of course it's not a substitute for a proper diet, but it can be a huge factor in weight loss. That's just not true. A single combo from McDonalds could set you back an entire weeks worth of exercise, literally. If you exercised for an hour a day every day, it only takes a single meal to undo most of that weight loss. PS - Exercise is, of course, very important for overall health and a long life. Nobody is arguing otherwise. But for weight loss? Heck no. The maths simply doesn't work at all.

sdml 12y ago
It depends on whether you consider intensity or duration to determine how "easy" a workout is. Sure, 2.5 hours is a lot of time to invest, but walking at 2.5 MpH hardly seems strenuous enough to qualify as exercise. A 160 pound person could burn 500 calories in ~40 minutes jogging at a 10 minute per mile pace, and could easily offset a Big Mac in a single day's exercise (not saying that the person should use this to justify eating a Big Mac).
danhodgins 12y ago
It is most definitely 'easy' to burn 500+ calories in one session. One hour of squash burns 600+ calories. One hour of running burns 600 ish calories. One hour of cycling burns something like 400-500 calories. No citations for these figures, just going off memory Burning 500+ calories per session is definitely doable - if you are doing the right exercise in the right ways for the right duration.