How many calories can you burn in 1 hour at a gym?

Hello Ziddis! All of us on our fitness journey measure our productivity by the scale of calories. What we often think is too little could be a lot of calories while eating and what we think is a lot could be too little when working out. This makes it important to keep track of your calories, especially the ones you burn. Here is how you can stay on top of your calorie game.

How Many Calories to Burn a Day?

The exact number of calories to burn in a day depends on your body’s needs, fitness goals, lifestyle and most importantly calorie intake. Here is how we figure out how many calories to burn a day.

To lose 0.5kg per week you can create a 500 calories deficit plan per day. This means you burn 500 calories more than you consume. This can be done through exercise combined with diet.

Track the calories that you gain and lose by punching them on a calorie-tracking app to help stick to your plan.

How Many Calories Can Be Burned in an Hour?

The number of calories that can be burned in an hour depends on many factors.

• Body Composition: Your body composition, including your height, weight, and muscle mass, can highly impact the efficiency of burning calories while working out. At rest, an average person burns 70-80 calories per hour.
• Types of Workouts: If it is a high-intensity workout, you could burn up to 600 calories. If it is a moderate-intensity workout up to 400 and for a low-intensity workout you could up to 250
• Your Metabolism: Your unique metabolic feature could help or make it tougher. The ones with higher metabolic rates can burn more calories faster.
• Your Gender: Males generally burn more calories than females.
• Your Age: As you age, due to slowed metabolism and lesser movement you tend to burn fewer calories.

Exercises That Burn the Most Calories

Every exercise you do burns some amount of calories. But to stay on top of your fitness goals, you must try exercises that burn the most calories. This will challenge you to do better and yield results sooner.

• Running: 600–800 calories/hour
• Swimming: 500–700 calories/hour
• Rowing: 400–600 calories/hour
• Jump Rope: 600–900 calories/hour
• HIIT: Upto 1,000 calories/hour

Adding some compound movements to your workout regime like squats, deadlifts and burpees can help burn more calories and also in building strength.

How to Burn Calories Fast

If you have a timeline in mind or are short on time due to a busy schedule, you can pick these tips to burn calories faster and more efficiently.

• Include High-Intensity Interval Training aka HIIT to complete your calorie burn goal sooner every day.
• Combine cardio and strength training in quick succession for circuit training to keep your heart rate high which results in burning more calories.
• Engage more muscle groups in full-body exercises like kettlebell swings or rowing.
• Add resistance tools like bands or weights to make sure your efforts are increased which helps burn more calories faster.
• To help reduce calorie intake munch on fit foods to maintain the calorie deficit.
• Instead of complex carbs or fatty proteins add some oats protein to your diet to keep you energized.

Takeaway

An hour in the gym can make a huge difference to your fitness. Make sure you use your time wisely. You must aim to burn as many and eat as less calories as possible to get slimmer and add more healthy fats and proteins to build muscles. All this will feel haywire without tracking. So get that tracking app on and enjoy the ride to your destination Fitness Central!