Inselaffen

for me its been a useful additional tool thats given me a push. lost just over 20kg in the last 6 months mainly through a lot of exercise!

co durham boy

Thats a great effort

jam25mack

Wow!

Millhouse

well done mate. love hearing those sort of stories

would love to hear how you went about it

mission

wow, that's awesome mate

Inselaffen

most evenings during the working week I've replaced my evening meal with a low cal protein shake. I've cut most of the sugar out of my diet. Was drinking a lot of fruit juice which Ive now replaced with water.

Apart from that it's mainly been hard work at OP Lifestyle fitness in JLT. 2-3 interval training sessions per work and i don't stop until I've hit 1000 calories burned at each session.

mission

wow....on the cross trainer i usually average around 500-550 calories (and thats approx 45-50 mins)....the most i've done is 700 calories while running 8km. Never gone beyond burning 700 calories in one session.

jam25mack

An hour of full throttle circuit training should be up round about 1000 calories.... but as I say that's an hour of non stop, sweating like a blind lesbian in a fish factory brutalness.

mission

talking of sweating...i literally sweat buckets and can never understand why other people (who seem to be working out just as much as me) don't sweat a drop - i just don't get that.

Miss Ann Thrope

Bear in mind your weight will be a significant factor: for an equivalent activity, the heavier you are, the more calories you will burn.

mission

ahhhhh yes of course...well pointed out Oh Wise One (meant with the utmost sincerity)

scrubbedexpat141

Also remember that you burn more calories just sat down than on a cross trainer.

mission

huh? how is that possible??

Inselaffen

also men burn calories more quickly than women

scrubbedexpat141

It was a joke. I remember spending 40 minutes on a cross trainer once and was bored out my mind. There's quicker ways to get to the same calorie goal, if that's your target, that aren't drastically harder.