Calories Burned With Elliptical Trainer
This page reviews the calories burned with an elliptical trainer.
The number of calories that you burn with an elliptical trainer machine depends on your body, how you use the machine and how you go about your workout routine.
You will burn the most calories in the shortest time and with the best conditioning with an elliptical trainer if you use an elliptical trainer interval workout. After reading the information below it might be to your advantage to read the information under that link and also to read more about interval training. Books on interval training are shown at the bottom.
Here are some overall numbers for comparison between calories burned with elliptical trainer and other activities. They are estimates only but are good enough to show you the advantages of an elliptical machine.
Elliptical Machine – 790 calories per hour
Jogging – 600 calories per hour
Wogging – 520 calories per hour
Nordic Walking – 400 calories per hour
Biking – 360 calories per hour
Walking – 260 calories per hour
Vigorous Sex – 66 calories per one half hour
Now let’s apply the numbers to your weight loss program and look at what you have to do when using an elliptical machine.
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The numbers here give you something to work with.
To burn off 1 pound of fat you have to burn off 3500 calories. So in round numbers, you have to use an elliptical machine for about 5 hours.
So to lose one pound a week, you have to use the elliptical machine 5 hours per week.
One pound a week on a consistent basis is a lot of weight. It is 52 pounds a year. And it is a safe way to lose weight.
If you cut your food intake back 500 calories per day, you lose another pound per week. Now you are up to losing 104 pounds per year.
Walk an hour per day, and you add another 25 pounds per year for a total of 129 pounds per year.
Using interval training, you can improve on this.
So let’s look at this practically. If you use an elliptical machine 20 minutes per day, and cut back your calories by 250 per day, you should be able to loose weight quite comfortably.
We recommend a combination of calorie control and exercise. Here is a tool that will help you with calorie control. Fitness Assistant.
And here is information about Interval Training.
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