if i walk on the treadmill for 1 hour everyday for 5 days a week at 3 mph, how much would i lose in 40 days? with proper dieting also
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treadmill question
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if i walk on the treadmill for 1 hour everyday for 5 days a week at 3 mph, how much would i lose in 40 days? with proper dieting also
Seriously, how do you expect someone to give you any sort of idea how much you would lose without you giving us some information to work with?
3mph for an hour, would burn different amounts on different people.
What is your height?
What is your weight?
What is a "proper" diet, how much are you in caloric deficit?
i wonder this as well. Hypothetically,if i intake 2000 calories a day and my BMR is 2250 and "walk" on the treadmill until I burn off 500 calories. Will that work?
i wonder this as well. Hypothetically,if i intake 2000 calories a day and my BMR is 2250 and "walk" on the treadmill until I burn off 500 calories. Will that work?
Wait, what? Did you mean that your BMR is 1,250? I've never heard of burning 2,250 calories just by being still all day. If in fact it is 1,250 and you burn 500 of that on the treadmill and you take in 2,000 that day... you've still got 250 to burn somehow plus another 500 if you want to lose lbs. Now my math is not the best but I do know that to "lose weight" you need to work off more than you take in on a daily basis.
Waitwhat is right. You need to be burning more calories than you consume. That's the simple easy way of thinkng about it. The hard part is tracking how many calories you're actually consuming. And walking on a treadmill to burn off 500 calories...erm.. I don't know how tall you are and how much you weigh... but burning off 500 calories by walking will take some time... like a LOT of time.
Basically what you want to do is figure out your BMR and factor in your activity levels, and then simply subtract 500 calories from that. That will be your daily intake of calories in order to lose weight. You can look up the Harris-Benedict equation if you want to find out what to do to determine your BMR, and then determine how active you are, and then take away 500 cals from that number.
Or, the simplest way to figure it out is to multiply your current body weight by 11 or 12 for fat loss. So if you weigh, say, 140lbs, then 140x11 = 1540 and 140x12= 1680. So you would aim to eat between 1540-1680 calories per day. This is the general rule of thumb I follow, and I don't try to determine how may calories I burn doing this or that... just stick with the nutrition end of it, and you'll be fine.
Basically what you want to do is figure out your BMR and factor in your activity levels, and then simply subtract 500 calories from that. That will be your daily intake of calories in order to lose weight. You can look up the Harris-Benedict equation if you want to find out what to do to determine your BMR, and then determine how active you are, and then take away 500 cals from that number.
Or, the simplest way to figure it out is to multiply your current body weight by 11 or 12 for fat loss. So if you weigh, say, 140lbs, then 140x11 = 1540 and 140x12= 1680. So you would aim to eat between 1540-1680 calories per day. This is the general rule of thumb I follow, and I don't try to determine how may calories I burn doing this or that... just stick with the nutrition end of it, and you'll be fine.
i wonder this as well. Hypothetically,if i intake 2000 calories a day and my BMR is 2250 and "walk" on the treadmill until I burn off 500 calories. Will that work?
Walking on a treadmill 1 hour a day as established on your first post, will burn roughly 100calories. You would need to walk 5 hours a day to burn off 500 calories, give or take.
i wonder this as well. Hypothetically,if i intake 2000 calories a day and my BMR is 2250 and "walk" on the treadmill until I burn off 500 calories. Will that work?
BMR is really just what your body burns doing nothing, but I'm guessing by BMR you simply mean what you burn during a day without the walking on the treadmill?
By eating 200 cals you'd be in a 250 cal deficit, so you'd lose weight. by burning 500 extra cals by walking, you'd lose even more.
thanks anoop, good read. i'll definitely beef up my diet.
sorry i guess my question was other than time being a factor, does running differ from walking? Will you essential get the same results? just wondering =]
sorry i guess my question was other than time being a factor, does running differ from walking? Will you essential get the same results? just wondering =]