How many calories should i be burning?
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How many calories should i be burning?
Hi, name is zach and I am 15 years old and weight 263 lbs. I do cardiovascular training everyday on a bike and i am wondering how many calories i should be trying to burn a day? At first since i was not used to working out i burned about 160 in 30 minutes.. then in about 3 weeks i moved up to 210 in 30 minutes.. just this past week i have increased the time of workout to 45 minutes and am burning 350 calories. Is this a good ammount to be burning?
Bossman just wrote this, read it then ask your questions:
Ever heard or read something like this.
I burned 300 calories before on a Treadmill.
How do you know?
The little display said so.
Good for you. A glorified calculator with a Star Trek, Captain Kirk style look, managed to initiate a Vulcan Mind Meld, on your Gastrointestinal tract, and gleaned this information, following a conversation with your Intestines, in Intestian English.
Earth to Mother ship. Mothership to Earth here, come in Earth. Earth to Mothership, so you think you burned 300 calories on a Treadmill, yeah good luck with that.
Right let's get back to the ethos of these smoke and mirrors readings.
Example.
A Treadmill, set up onto a level 3 interval setting, programmed for 20 minutes at around 4mph.
You get a calories burned reading, which means nothing.
In order to quantify that reading as accurate, you would need to set a Treadmill up like that again, different make or model, same setting, either 1-2 days later, and then repeat the experiment every 1-2 days, for about 2-3 weeks, with differing Treadmill models.
This creates a slew of problems.
1. How do you get access to all those differing models of Treadmill? Unless you're part of an ongoing scientific experiment, you probably can't.
2. What did you consume before you used the Treadmill?
Examples, Bowl of Cereal, Chicken and Veggies, Banana, 1/2 a Gatorade drink.
3. When did you consume the food and / or drink?
30 minutes before, 40 minutes before, 1 hr, 10 minutes before?
Did you have any retained waste matter in your system, altering your power to weight ratio slightly?
Alternatively did you consume nothing, in which case did you go to the toilet, again affecting power to weight ratio, dependant on the answer you give?
4. How much did what you consume weigh? A Chicken and Veggies meal, will weigh more than 1/2 a Gatorade, and have a different Carb / calorie release mechanism, meaning what you weigh afterwards, and how quickly that alters based on the digestion rate of what you consumed, will affect the reading, even if it's just 0.2 calories.
5. Assuming you are part of an ongoing scientifc experiment, and can access many differing Treadmills over a 2-3 week period, are the readings going to stay the same?
Probably not, as you could weigh even as little 0.5 lbs more or less by the 10th day, even if you run at the same time each day. Even if you don't, you might have a slightly lower Fat level, and slightly higher muscle level, or vice versa, affecting power to weight ratio slightly, depending on how your physiology altered.
6. Are you stressed a lot? Do you store Abdominal Fat from increased Cortisol production, at the same time, potentially breaking down Amino Acids in your diet, potentially altering muscle Levels, and therefore power to weight ratio a little.
7. Do you maintain a consistant, regular water intake? How does this contribute to your overall weight, and therefore power to weight ratio, or if you don't keep water intake consistant, how does that affect possible retention and power to weight ratio?
8. Do you have a high Salt intake? Does this cause increased water retention, affecting power to weight ratio, and contributing to something like Edema?
9. Are you on any medications, that might increase or decrease Weight?
10. Do you have any Metabolism issues, possibly relating to things like Thyroid, Parathyroid and Gastrointestinal Tract activity, governing things like Bone density, Fat levels and muscle mass?
11. If you drink Alcohol or sugary carbonated drinks, do you potentially store Fat from caloric conversion, drinking such things? Bearing in mind you will affect Fat levels in some way, on days where you drink, more, less, or not at all, owing to the inconsistant caloric intake from such drinks, unless of course you drink exactly the same drink(s), in the same quantity every day, still affecting Fat Levels, daily caloric intake, and power to weight ratio.
12. Do you walk or Cycle, to the place where the apparatus is, or get a bus or Car, and do you do one of those all the time, or a mixture of all three? Bearing in mind any prior activity could affect weight slightly, from reduced Fat and / or water, as opposed to using Combustion power and being sedentary, which long-term could affect a future reading.
So do you still think you burned a specific number of calories, because a little glorified calculator said you did?
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Ever heard or read something like this.
I burned 300 calories before on a Treadmill.
How do you know?
The little display said so.
Good for you. A glorified calculator with a Star Trek, Captain Kirk style look, managed to initiate a Vulcan Mind Meld, on your Gastrointestinal tract, and gleaned this information, following a conversation with your Intestines, in Intestian English.
Earth to Mother ship. Mothership to Earth here, come in Earth. Earth to Mothership, so you think you burned 300 calories on a Treadmill, yeah good luck with that.
Right let's get back to the ethos of these smoke and mirrors readings.
Example.
A Treadmill, set up onto a level 3 interval setting, programmed for 20 minutes at around 4mph.
You get a calories burned reading, which means nothing.
In order to quantify that reading as accurate, you would need to set a Treadmill up like that again, different make or model, same setting, either 1-2 days later, and then repeat the experiment every 1-2 days, for about 2-3 weeks, with differing Treadmill models.
This creates a slew of problems.
1. How do you get access to all those differing models of Treadmill? Unless you're part of an ongoing scientific experiment, you probably can't.
2. What did you consume before you used the Treadmill?
Examples, Bowl of Cereal, Chicken and Veggies, Banana, 1/2 a Gatorade drink.
3. When did you consume the food and / or drink?
30 minutes before, 40 minutes before, 1 hr, 10 minutes before?
Did you have any retained waste matter in your system, altering your power to weight ratio slightly?
Alternatively did you consume nothing, in which case did you go to the toilet, again affecting power to weight ratio, dependant on the answer you give?
4. How much did what you consume weigh? A Chicken and Veggies meal, will weigh more than 1/2 a Gatorade, and have a different Carb / calorie release mechanism, meaning what you weigh afterwards, and how quickly that alters based on the digestion rate of what you consumed, will affect the reading, even if it's just 0.2 calories.
5. Assuming you are part of an ongoing scientifc experiment, and can access many differing Treadmills over a 2-3 week period, are the readings going to stay the same?
Probably not, as you could weigh even as little 0.5 lbs more or less by the 10th day, even if you run at the same time each day. Even if you don't, you might have a slightly lower Fat level, and slightly higher muscle level, or vice versa, affecting power to weight ratio slightly, depending on how your physiology altered.
6. Are you stressed a lot? Do you store Abdominal Fat from increased Cortisol production, at the same time, potentially breaking down Amino Acids in your diet, potentially altering muscle Levels, and therefore power to weight ratio a little.
7. Do you maintain a consistant, regular water intake? How does this contribute to your overall weight, and therefore power to weight ratio, or if you don't keep water intake consistant, how does that affect possible retention and power to weight ratio?
8. Do you have a high Salt intake? Does this cause increased water retention, affecting power to weight ratio, and contributing to something like Edema?
9. Are you on any medications, that might increase or decrease Weight?
10. Do you have any Metabolism issues, possibly relating to things like Thyroid, Parathyroid and Gastrointestinal Tract activity, governing things like Bone density, Fat levels and muscle mass?
11. If you drink Alcohol or sugary carbonated drinks, do you potentially store Fat from caloric conversion, drinking such things? Bearing in mind you will affect Fat levels in some way, on days where you drink, more, less, or not at all, owing to the inconsistant caloric intake from such drinks, unless of course you drink exactly the same drink(s), in the same quantity every day, still affecting Fat Levels, daily caloric intake, and power to weight ratio.
12. Do you walk or Cycle, to the place where the apparatus is, or get a bus or Car, and do you do one of those all the time, or a mixture of all three? Bearing in mind any prior activity could affect weight slightly, from reduced Fat and / or water, as opposed to using Combustion power and being sedentary, which long-term could affect a future reading.
So do you still think you burned a specific number of calories, because a little glorified calculator said you did?
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aside from cardio, do you lift weights as well?
if not, you should start doing so cuz as much as cardio burns calories, weight lifting does just the same thing. plus if you get muscles into your body, it will actually help boost your metabolism and you'll burn more calories even while at rest.
i dont do much cardio cuz im tryna bulk up but i've lost flabs around arms and chest just lifting weights. but instead of losing weight, i actually gained weight before i even tried bulking so its a good thing which meant that i've gained some muscle mass.
but im not sayin you shud ditch the cardio just add some lifting sessions 3xweek.
if not, you should start doing so cuz as much as cardio burns calories, weight lifting does just the same thing. plus if you get muscles into your body, it will actually help boost your metabolism and you'll burn more calories even while at rest.
i dont do much cardio cuz im tryna bulk up but i've lost flabs around arms and chest just lifting weights. but instead of losing weight, i actually gained weight before i even tried bulking so its a good thing which meant that i've gained some muscle mass.
but im not sayin you shud ditch the cardio just add some lifting sessions 3xweek.
If you are trying to lose fat then you should find your bmr, record how many calories you eat a day, and then add cardio to that. Make sure you are burning more calories a day then you are consuming to lose fat.
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