Running is a difficult exercise, but it doesn't burn many calories, does it?

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Fri Oct-24-08 01:49 PM
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Running is a difficult exercise, but it doesn't burn many calories, does it?

I read that a person my weight burns only 100 calories a mile. So my 1.2 miles every day doesn't do much for overall weight loss, does it?

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MissMillie

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Fri Oct-24-08 02:47 PM
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1. trying running that same mile doing intervals

you'll burn more calories

so... run really hard for 90 seconds... then cool back down for 90 seconds..... and so on....

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LostinVA

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Fri Oct-24-08 03:30 PM
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6. Bingo -- at least two times a week

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MilesColtrane

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Fri Oct-24-08 02:47 PM
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2. I think the benefit comes from raising your overall metabolism.

I think it's not just the calories burned during exercise.

Your body will continue to burn calories at a higher rate throughout the day after running.

But, I'm not a professor of biosciencedoctorology.

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Rambis

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Fri Oct-24-08 02:51 PM
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3. Stair stepper

I can burn 600 calories in 1/2 hour but I am a fat bald 40 year old man baby yeah!

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SacredCow

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Fri Oct-24-08 02:52 PM
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4. There are a LOT of variables...

100 per mile might be about right, though.

I concur with MissMillie about the intervals. You can do intervals by time, or distance- or what I do, which is with a heart rate monitor. I'll sprint right up to my maximum HR, then back down and recover into the 60% max rate and repeat...

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LostinVA

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Fri Oct-24-08 03:30 PM
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5. That's THE best way for me to keep my weight down -- it melts off me

Even at 43, and even only doing two or three miles a day.

An erg is great, too, but not as interesting.

Running is also cheap.

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pitohui

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Fri Oct-24-08 04:04 PM
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7. exercise as a whole doesn't really burn many calories for the most part

you have to do it for other reasons or, in the case of running, i would frankly not do it all because of the cumulative damage to one's joints

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