How many calories should a 16 year old burn during cardio?

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I am a 16 year old , I use an elliptical machine for 20 minutes 5-6 days a week. I burn about 300 calories each time, but I was wondering what exactly should I be burning.

[(Rage)]

i wouldnt really know, but actually i think 300 is fine, but im just shocked, how do you burn 300 cals in 20 mins on the ellp machine? when I do it for 20 mins, i lose like 150 only!

[Boss Man]

Might depend on the setting and the tempo used.

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I am a 16 year old , I use an elliptical machine for 20 minutes 5-6 days a week. I burn about 300 calories each time, but I was wondering what exactly should I be burning.

Well, I really am not sure what I should be burning, but now I do the Elliptical for 45 min. and I'm burning up to 1100 calories.

[Boss Man]

That sounds a lot. I'm not really too familiar with Ellipticals, that is to say I don't use them, but I've never known a calorie burn that high, on a piece of Cardio equipment before. Most I've heard of before is 500.

I can accept your total to be correct, and whilst I wasn't aware such a thing could happen, during a common Cardiovascular timespan, I still think it's potentially a bit much.

You might find, you incur muscle burn with that, but that's educated guesswork, I can't be 100% on that.

[swanso5]

calorie counters on cardio machines are useless

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calorie counters on cardio machines are useless

Thank you, I had thought this was true for quite sometime. To me it seemed unlikely that I was burning 1100 calories.

[Peter]

last time i burned 500 calories on an elliptical i was on for 45minutes with 15 resistance lol

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.......Wow.....I think the counter on Elliptical isn't quite right