how many calories should i burn in a 30 min run???
 

about 4 days a week i do Cardio at the gym ... i run on a no impact runner for 30 mins (+5 mins cool) i average about 180 strides a min and burn about 375-400 Calories. i run about 4 miles ... I'm never out of breath but i do sweat .. should i step it up .... i hate spending 2 hours at the gym ... i just don't have the time ..any advice ... should i move to a bike ??? stair master ??? i want to get the best workout I can in 30 mins .. i have a leg injury so i try to stay low impact ..

Depends whos chasing you

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so your saying i should get a fat hungry guy to stand behind me and chase the treadmill ... interesting ... I'll have to try that ... :thumbsup

i'll hit ya up ... but incase i forget ... hit me up also ... :thumbsup

carry a kilo on you, and have a couple friends dress up as cops and run after you infront of a donut shop

it says that in 30 Min's i should burn 238 calories .... so i guess the 375-400 that I'm burning is good ... :thumbsup

damn i burn only 300 after 30mins and i am all bathing in my sweat

i was gonna say the same thing.
i burn about 100 calories for every 10 mins im doing cardio (i mean, running kind of cardio, not walking lol)

so you guys are saying that I'm doing OK ... thing is that I'm not out of breath ... should i push harder ..

I've been doing the Eliptical Cross trainer 4 days per week the past few weeks ... burn about 250 calories in 20 minutes - so we're right on the same pace.

I hate running ... like this machine much better.

Been doing a little lifting and 50 - 75 crunches each day too. Trying to get healthy not bulk up or anything like that. Just get into shape a little

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same thing here ... the ipod helps with the running ...before that i never ran ... just to fucking boring ..

I hear you, man - I need to get a couple IPODS for me and my wife ... it's about that time!

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Road running is harder than a treadmill, since you actually have to push yourself forward, not just bounce up. So I would add almost a third or so to whatever you burn on the treadmill at that pace for that duration.

If you need low impact I would move to a road bike ( not an indoor bike ) the only concern would be your time constraints. You will not hate spending time on a road bike like you do in a gym on a stationary bike.

As for calories while cycling, on avg you will burn as little as 700 per hour and as much as 1200 per hour, depending upon intensity. So on a bike for 30 minutes you could burn 600 calories (based on avg) depending on intensity. For a comparison, TDF riders burn up to 9000 calories a day.

As a runner with an injury, you should know what your paces were before you were injured; make appropriate reductions to those paces when you return and run by pace, not by how your breathing or heart rate is.

As far as fitness transfer goes, always assume that your training is specific to what you are doing: to improve your run, you need to run...etc.

There is a small amount of fitness transfer from running to cycling (and not vice versa), but only if your fitness level is quite low. IOW, the more trained you are in any sport, the less and less cross-training will effect your fitness in your sport of choice.

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those calories burned on the machines always seem to be kinda exaggerated. Not sure if thats true, just seems like the counts you get on the websites for actual running are much lower then that you get when doing the eliptical machines.

you must scale yourself before doing your exercise, in that way you would be able to monitor improvements.

Or a mad mongrel. I think it's effective. :1orglaugh

yea the iPod is a fucking must if you gonna survive the running :)

you'll start burning fat after 20 minutes.. so better run a hour :)

40-45min is good. The trick is to keep up 5-6 days/week and you'll burn most fat, your metabolism will change.

Half hour is fine. At medium pace 350 sounds about right, too. The key here is consistency. Are you ready to do your cardio 4 times a week, 50 weeks a year (example: 2 weeks vacation), day in day out not missing a workout?

Cardio is a necessary evil when working out, most people hate it but what are you gonna do. Don't worry about how many calories you burn each session, worry about doing it every time you planned on doing it. It's hard enough.

Pearls of wisdom!

temp + incline divided by speed squared

I guess this is true ... i go 4 times a week now and do additional weight training 3 of those days ... but it's always hit and miss .. time is tight and i almost never go the same days ... i need to stick to a schedule .. :thumbsup