I burned 1600 calories on the elliptical machine last night!

[TXlib]

Woo-Hoo!

I can eat all the bacon and donuts I want today!

[GOPisEvil]

1. In how long?

That's a lot of calories to burn.

[TXlib]

2. 90 minutes

[GOPisEvil]

3. 90 minutes?!?!

DAMN! The longest I do the elliptical is 35. But then, I'm one of those geeks that tries to keep to the 30 minute time limit. I also mix in weights though. I try to keep my total workout to around an hour to hour and a half.

[Go Eagles]

4. Impressive

Congratulations and thanks for reminding me I need to get moving. my record is a little above 2,000 in 60 minutes.

[prolesunited]

5. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

How did you do that?

[TXlib]

6. Yeah, how did you do that?

2,000 in 60 minutes?

You must have had the resistance pegged to maximum, and still been going at 75 RPM!

[prolesunited]

9. BTW, congrats to you TXlib!

I've been trying to do an hour on my trainer every day. Unfortunately, I can only monitor my cadence. I guess if I looked around, I could find some sort of mathematical calculation for calories burned.

[BiggJawn]

12. Ask, and it shall be given unto you.....

http://www.primusweb.com/fitnesspartner/jumpsite/calculat.htm

I calcuated that I burn between 19 and 24 calories a minute when I'm riding.

[prolesunited]

13. Thanks!

I bookmarked that. I guess it's a good enough estimate. Do you have one that would translate cadence to mph? My cyclometer is hooked to my front, not rear, wheel.

[BiggJawn]

14. From our Old Friend Sheldon...

http://www.sheldonbrown.com/gears/

Enter your sprocket sizes and other items and it'll give you your speed...
I have a Cateye Astrale that reads the rear wheel.

[Go Eagles]

11. Actually,

I looked at my log and it it was in 75 minutes. I had maximum or close to maximum resistance/incline at high intensity almost the whole time (except for the last five minutes) and took it down to mid/mid high occasionaly for a minute or two when I needed to slow down. I was also pretty light headed for about 45 minutes afterwards and wont do it again. Just one of those times I was in a good groove and decided to push myself beyond a rational level.

[trof]

7. I'm just impressed that you can spell "elliptical".

;-)

[TXlib]

8. Why?

[trof]

10. I'm kidding. I'M KIDDING!

:-)

[DS1]

15. I burned a cheeseburger on the stairmaster

The shit was everywhere, cheese running down the console, grease on the pedals. The instructions didn't say anything about not cooking with butane :eyes:

[TrogL]

16. Burnt offerings are no longer required

Jesus is the fulfillment of the Law.

:evilgrin: