About how many calories am I burning, and what should my heart rate be, and how long should I do this routine?

[goddess84]

i jog back and forth through the house for a minute then walk two minutes then jog one minute then walk 30 seconds and then jog 30 seconds then rest a minute the repeat for 30 minutes.

[martyfellow]

Heart rates vary too much for anyone to tell you this. You need to determine your baseline hear rate and shoot for a goal maybe 20% higher for a long aerobic workout. Maybe 30% higher for an intense interval workout. But it depends totally on what you mean by 'jog.' Do you mean 4 mph, 6, or 10? Makes a TREMENDOUS difference.

Frankly at your weight, you'd have to scale all the above way down until you're in better overall shape, and you sure shouldn't be running very fast for now.

You need the help of a trainer to give you the answers. NO one can do it in cyberspace, individual variations in heart rate make it impossible to give you a cookie cutter answer.

[Camel-Jockey]

If you are aiming to lose weight, high-intensity, short-interval workouts are much more effective. Doing exercises (sprints, squats, jumps...) as fast as possible for as long as you can stops you from plateauing. Doing the same exercise constantly, say jogging 25 minutes a day, causes you to reach a certain point in conditioning that you can't pass. As far as calories go... Nobody cares. Portion down on the food. Eat to not be hungry, don't eat to be full. You'll drop pounds in no time! I play football and wrestle, that means I have to lose about 20 pounds every year in between seasons (a couple weeks). It can be done as long as you're willing to do it, I promise. Good luck :)

[rachiee]

Its hard to tell. I'd say 300-400 calories. Jogging/stopping is good to get your heart rate up which will help lose weight but its not that intense of a workout to really do much. I can't tell you your heart rate because that depends on your age, weight, and how intense you're doing it.

[HannahC]

jogging for 30 second intervals will give you no results. Just go take a jog until you fall over.

[justanotherguy00001]

Actually, work in general gives results. If she jogged for an hour, or if she jogged for 30 sec intervals (with one min breaks) 120 times, it would be the exact same workout but take a extra 2 hours.

However, as the body attempts to replenish after each minute second workout instead of never resting, it might even be easier for her to do the latter (resting), then the former (never stopping).

[HannahC]

well then

[Anonymous]

You're hardly burning any calories.

I'd say somewhere around 400 for 30 minutes, which isn't as effective as if you ran/sprinted for half that amount. Full body cardio routines also trump jogging in as little as 20-25% of the time, excluding the calories you burn after.

[kheserthorpe]

GIven she mentions in the next question she weighs 200+ lbs, she's actually burning a fair number of calories.

If a 130 lb woman strapped an 80 lb pack on, I bet she'd find that a pretty tough workout.

[Anonymous]

It depends on your size, and how fast you jog.

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You're basically doing 25 minutes of activity, jogging and walking. (12.5 minutes of each).

[Anonymous]

It's a good healthy thing to do, but think about exercise for general health rather than calorie burning. Eat better food if you want to lose weight - much easier and a bigger effect doing so.