How Many Calories Can You Burn With Elliptical Trainers?

If you are interested in buying an elliptical trainer one of the biggest questions I always hear is how many calories can you burn? Most people want to burn as many calories as possible in the shortest amount of time and as easy as possible. Well the answer is not so cut an dry because there are many different factors to consider when figuring out how many your losing per session.

Many elliptical manufacturers claim that you can burn up to 750 calories in one hour. Imagine that, you can burn off an entire meal in one hour and for some people that's almost 2 meals. This is great news because it means you dont even need to exercise for a full hour to burn off a few hundred calories for the very least. With these kinds of estimated you can burn off a total of 375 calories in one episode of friends, and for you lost lovers, you can burn off that entire 750 calories in one show! I don't know about you but that it kind of exciting considering you only burn about 77 calories sitting on a couch for that full episode of lost.

In fact lets see how many calories other things burn off in an hour

Sitting	77
Reading	77
Talking on phone	77
Writing	77
Driving	154
Washing dishes	163
Brush teeth	182
Billiards	182
Cooking	192
Walking 2 mph	202
Bowling	221
Fishing	221
Surfing	221
Pilates Beginner	269
Bicycling - leisure	288
Sex - intercourse	307
Mopping	326
Basketball - shooting baskets	326
Hunting	365
Garden	394
Swimming - moderate	442
Aerobics - low impact	442
Aerobics - high impact	509
Stationary Bicycle - moderate	509
Stair Step Machine	509
Running 5 mph	614

Out of all these activities the elliptical trainer will burn more calories in an hour than any other one of these activities. Its amazing to see that you would have to run 5 mph consistently for an entire hour to even burn off 614 calories. I think the numbers speak for themselves, that an elliptical trainer is the most effective means of burning calories and you can do it from the comfort of your own home.

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