What activity level is it?

[Anonymous]

If I burn 500 calories a day what level of exercise is that light, moderate, heavy etc.

[Icechip]

3500 calories go into a single 1 pound of fat. Calorie is just a measurement of energy. Your body uses calories all the time to accomplish just about anything including being alive. Too many calories and your body can't use them all but doesn't waste them so it stores it as fat for latter use. To burn a single pound a fat (BARRING THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE REACT DIFFERENTLY) take how many calories in a week eg. a girl would probably consume 14,000-17,500 total calories in a week for an average amount of 2000-2500 in a day. Factor your BMR (Basal Metabolic Rate or the amount of calories burned if you were laying at rest all day) times it by 7 whats left is the calories you need to burn by extra physical activities and and if you want to lose weight you need a net loss of 3500 total calories at the end of the week but like I said people are different and this precise math and science doesn't always apply equally

[oddwaffle]

Depends on how long you exercise and the type. A 30min run at high speed (10m/hr?) can take 500cal easily. A slower pace will cost you 1-2 hours.

The ideal exercise is to spend 10min warming up and 20min on extremely hard exercise then cool down. I'd call a hard exercise is when you are still sweating and feel the burning heat from your body even after you stopped for 5-10min. You can be almost certain to loose about 500cal a day.

[Smmyskittles]

Or you can tell me how much of a workout you do and for how long.

You could do Yoga for like 2-3 hours [[no idea how much it burns]] and that would be moderate. Or if you only do like 45 minutes of swimming; that'd be light.

Details, more than just calories!

[Asker]

I haven't started woeking out yet I just got a gym member gym. I am not really sure how many calories to try and burn off. I read you shouldn't consume less than 1200. I eat 1700-1800. If I burnt more than 500 would that be bad for me since it would bring my calorie intake down?

[Asker]

Working*
Membership*

[Smmyskittles]

There are a lot of factors with it. Are you aiming to lose weight, maintain weight, build muscle? What will you be looking to do most often? Treadmill, stairs, elliptical, etc.

Most workouts you do yourself at the gym won't burn a lot of calories. Especially if you're fit. The less you weigh [unless you have a high metabolism] the less calories you burn.

[Asker]

I am looking to lose weight. I am using the fitnesspal app. It said to reach my goal, I should consume 1480 calories at most. So if I consume 1800 and burned 500 than I would be at 1300 which is under 1480 but over 1200? Did I work it out right? Or I could eat less which would allow me to workout less as long as it adds up to 1480 or less. My goal is a pound a week.

[Takada]

Heavy. Remember, you burn a lot of calories just by being alive. Your basal metabolic rate will burn most of your daily calories. If you're burning 500 calories purely from exercise, then that's a lot of exercise.

[Jxpxtxr]

Light I think, I mean really only 500 cal in a day?
I burn that in one hour of cardio..

[Asker]

Well I haven't started woeking out yet I just got a gym member gym. I am not really sure how many calories to try and burn off. I read you shouldn't consume less than 1200. I eat 1700-1800. If I burnt more than 500 would that be bad for me since it would bring my calorie intake down?

[Asker]

Gym mebership*

[Asker]

Membership* excuse my spelling lol

[Jxpxtxr]

No actually, the goal if you're trying to lose weight is to burn more than you consume anyways

[Asker]

So if I burn more than 500 and rought my calorie intake down from 1700 to below 1200 which is the lowest females should consume (or so I read lol) then it will be ok?

[Jxpxtxr]

Yes you'll be perfectly fine, just don't go lower than that if you don't wanna mess up your metabolic rate )

[Anonymous]

moderate i say

250-300 is light

[Polocrew]

Lights if that's all u loosing in day OP

[Umm_april1]

Moderate

[H2OBearer]

light.