How many calories can be burned in one hour of aerobic exercise?

When ordinary people do regular aerobic exercise for one hour, they consume about 300-700 calories, and the floating range is much wider than many people expect.

Last week, I went to the gym with my cousin who was new to exercise. She weighed 92 pounds, so she set the resistance of the elliptical machine to the lowest setting because she was afraid of getting tired. She swayed slowly while watching short videos. At the end of an hour, the exercise watch counted only 287 calories. I weighed 138 pounds, set the medium resistance, and followed the rhythm of the class. The same machine burned 570 calories in one hour, which was almost double the difference.

The most important influencing variable here is actually body weight. The heavier you are, the more energy you need to consume to move your body. In addition, there is the difference in exercise intensity. For an adult who is also 70 kilograms, a slow walk for an hour after a meal will only consume about 350 calories. If you sprint at a half-marathon pace, you can work up to more than 800 calories in an hour. However, ordinary enthusiasts cannot withstand that kind of intensity, and it is easy to injure joints.

Nowadays, there are many conflicting opinions on the Internet. Some people say that a certain Internet celebrity can burn 1,000 calories in one hour of exercise, and other people say that the aerobic consumption is too low and useless. In fact, both of them are quite extreme. Those who say they can burn 1,000 calories are mostly under special circumstances. Either a strong man weighing more than 90 kilograms is exercising at full intensity throughout the whole process, or the sports equipment has falsely marked data. Ordinary people should not rely on this number. There is also the excessive oxygen consumption after aerobic exercise that many people have previously praised, which is what everyone often calls the sustained fat burning effect after exercise. Previously, marketing accounts claimed that hundreds of calories can be burned after one hour. Now many studies in the sports field have also put forward different views. They believe that the additional subsequent consumption of ordinary moderate-intensity aerobic exercise is only a few dozen calories, which is far less exaggerated than what is rumored.

I have been practicing aerobics for three years. From the beginning, I kept looking at the consumption figures on my watch every day. After jumping for ten minutes, I would raise my wrist to see how many calories I had gained. Even if you walk briskly for half an hour after a meal, it's still better than lying on the sofa eating potato chips. If you do high-intensity work just to make up for the consumption figures, you'll be afraid of training within two days and develop resistance, which is not worth the gain. By the way, there is another pitfall that many people have stepped on. They wear sweaty clothes and get soaked all over. They think that the more you sweat, the higher your energy consumption will be. In fact, sweat is the water excreted by the body to dissipate heat. You can make up for it by drinking a few sips of water. It has nothing to do with the actual calorie consumption of half a cent. There is really no need to pay that IQ tax.