how many colories should I attempt to burn in a day and how many days a week should I work out? Thanks!?
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every other day is a good routine, the bottom line is....if you take in more calories than you burn, you'll gain weight.....period
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It depends "how" you are burning these calories. Every person has a BMR (basal metabolic rate) which indicates how many calories your body will burn daily. This is also usually the daily recommended calorie intake for the individual. For example, my BMR is 1418 calories, and I burn 425 calories from digestion and processing food. Thus, I am to eat 1418 calories a day to MAINTAIN my weight, my body will not "hold on" to these calories. To lose weight, you must burn more than you consume.\n\nIf you are working out and burning 1000 calories, this is a bit on the high side. It also depends on the intensity of the activity, your average heart rate, your diet, and your weight and fitness level! And be careful, what the machines at the gym tell you is usually not accurate (if this is where you are getting the information from) and you should take the calorie values as an estimate. You will usually burn 10-20% less than what the machine displays. Sad, I know :(
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Yes, choose the correct foods, portion control, figure out how many calories you should consume in a day for your goal then spread them evenly throughout 6 to 9 meals a day (every 2 hours or so) and get to the gym and do cardio at least 3 times a week for a minimum of 30 minute sessions and start some form of resistance training.\n\nYou will be a Goddess in no time.
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3,000 calories are in a pound..so it all depends on how many calories you burn for what exercise you are doing. say you burn 6,000 calories (which is almost impossible for 8 hours) you would lose 2 pounds. but dont forget you are going to eat at some point during the day and that will put some of the calories you burned off back on. I'd say that the mose weight some could lose in one day (or 8 hours) would be about 1..maybe a little more maybe a little less.  Hope this helps
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i would start with 2 times per week and go up to 3 in a month, that will give your body time to get used to it. only once a week starting out will not give you enough time each week to get in the routine.
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Lots of cardio (4 days a week at least 45 minutes, shoot for higher), reduce your total calories, and perform step up lunges for 22-25 reps maybe higher. avoid using any heavy weights since your not trying to create a large muscular butt.
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Swimming is a great way to tone up, however, it's not a great weight loss activity.  If you want to really start burning calories, I would recommend running or aerobics 5 times a week for over 20 minutes.  When you are doing aerobic activity (no stop and go; continuous) you are burning carbohydrates for the first 12 minutes.  After that time you start burning calories.  I used to be a swimmer, and I would like to get back to it.  I really applaud you for 3 times a week for an hour.
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once a day is sufficient. use time wisely and you dont have to kill yourself. Consistency is the most important thing dont burn yourself out. Work hard but make it enjoyable. having a partner is good also. You will see great results in months trust me. Eat right but cheat a little from time to time. You dont want to go on a binge later.
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the number of calories it takes to lose a pound fat? In other words, eat 500 calories less than you need every day for seven days and you should emerge one pound lighter.\n\nthe theory sounds great. unfortunately, it doesn't work that well in practice.
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The strategy: Try to build up to five or six days a week of aerobic exercise, 30 to 60 minutes per session. When shedding weight is the priority (why build muscle if you're going to conceal it under a layer of flab?), your main focus should be aerobic work and calorie monitoring. "A low- or moderate-calorie diet and a lot of cardio time will drop the pounds," says Rubenstein. "But remember, some of that weight loss will inevitably be muscle tissue."\n\nWatch out: Hours of weekly endurance work will trigger a duster of metabolic adaptations that tend to deflate and weaken those strength-and-power fast-twitch muscle fibers, making it harder to lift heavy weights. Meanwhile, your smaller, conditioning-oriented slow-twitch fibers will take on a more dominant role.\n\nThe bottom line: Find time to hit the weights. How often? You won't lose too much muscle as long as you fit two moderate weight-training sessions a week around all those cardio workouts. Schedule one to three days between weight workouts (Wednesday and Saturday, for example). Target both the upper body and the lower body each session.
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if you want to lose weight, you need to exercise at least an hour and at least more than three times per week, provided you have a diet plan as well.\n if you just want to keep yourself fit then half an hour twice a week will be enough
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I don't like you should do spin every day, even 5 days. Any of one type of exercises will cause your body to adapt and minimize the results you could get.\n\nI would do it 3 days, every other day, and you could lose ten pounds, if you also watch your diet.\n\nSpinning burns more than 600 calories an hour.
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How long really depends on your skin color.  Ask the staff at the tanning salon for thier opinion.  For example, I am very fair skinned, so I don't go for more than 10 mins (but I don't go very often).  The beds only go for a maximum of 20 mins, because even if you are very dark, it is not safe to go in longer than that.\n\nIt is best to go only once every other day or less!  It's really not safe to go at all, but if you're gonna go, go every other day or less.\n\nThe people at the tanning salon I used to go to said if you are fair-skinned, start out at 7 mins.  Then, every other time you come back (if you're going regularly), add 1 or 2 mins.  Use your judgement on that one, if you got burned the last time, don't add more, you'll get burned again.\n\nSo in other words, if you started on the 1st of the month, you'd go \nApril 1- 7 mins\nApril 3- 7 mins.\nApril 5- 8 or 9 mins\nApril 7- 8 or 9 mins\nApril 9- 10 mins\n\nUnless you get burned-- then don't go until it is fully healed!
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First, set a goal for yourself. For example, let's say you want to do 100 by the end of the month. Start with 20, then add 3 more each day. You work up to 100 in no time!
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The personal trainer at my gym recommended to me that while I am trying to tone up, I should avoid doing more than 30 minutes of cardio twice a week. (I thought this sounded rather low.) He said doing more than this would be counterproductive and would destroy the muscle tissue you were trying to build.\nPersonally, I do 30 minutes of cardio every time I do weights.
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Losing 2 lbs. a week is really hard to do. But there is only one way to lose fat: You have to eat less than you burn.\n\nA pound of fat = 3,500 calories. So to burn a pound of fat you have to burn 3500 cals above and beyond what you're eating. \n\nTo lose a pound of fat a week, you need to burn 500 cals a day (above and beyond what you are eating.) To lose 2 lbs of fat a week, you'd have to burn 1000 cals a day. It can happen, it's just really hard to do.\n\nRemember that you don't want to starve yourself. If you don't eat enough calories your metabolism will slow and your body will start to break down muscle. You may lose weigtht this way, but you will lose lean weight as well as fat weight. It's not very healthy!\n\nSo, To answer your question depends on your resting metabolic rate. roughly 1500/day for women and 2000/day for men. This is your bear minimum for the day... you shouldn't eat less than that. Then up your exercise and you're off toward weight loss!!!
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When you mention "a day", I can assume you plan to run very often, and when you ask this kind of question here, but not face to face with an experienced person, I assume you are a newbie. Correct me if I am wrong, I just try to help.\n\nRun every km in around 7 min for 30 min a day will do good for a healthy newbie. If there is a special condition, talk to the doctor first.\n\nLuckily, none of my students say I am foolish so far.