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googirl77 asked in HealthDiet & Fitness · 8 years ago

How do i build my stamina and burn more calories when i work out?

In an hour at the gym I burn 125 calories while my friends burn 400. I know i need to step it up. I try increasing the speed and resistance on the machine only being able to not breath and get dizzy. Suggestions on how to burn more calories?

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  • 8 years ago
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    Look at a sprinter, they have massive legs and can best any normal man in a short race. Now look at a long distance runner, not so massive right? Your training as a sprinter by increasing the intensity and not the time period you exercise, try finding a pace that you can keep a sweat up without losing your breath. Remember you increase reps/time spent in the exercise/movement to increase how long you can go while the harder you go more reps/faster speeds the better you become at short but hard exercises. To make it simple, train for longer not harder(long distance running) and you'll increase stamina to go longer the next time. While training harder (shorter but more intense) will yield more calories burnt.

    Source(s): Weight lifting, friends, sports, and living a healthy lifestyle.
  • adcox
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Normal strolling. Stamina is the potential to move lengthy, despite the fact that at an handy velocity. In sprinting, the target is to move as quick as viable. But, the pace limits the space you'll run. So, a dash does not draw on stamina. And an extended, gradual run does not contain sprinting. Endurance is the potential to move lengthy at velocity that calls for attempt. Endurance implies stamina, however stamina does no longer always suggest staying power. Finishing a marathon in 7 hours offers an instance of stamina. Finishing in three.five hours offers an instance of staying power. If you attempt to cross lengthy with sprinting, you're more likely to burn out. If you desire to burn energy, you ought to duvet extra distance. Again, sprinting is for a brief distance. So, usual strolling is greater for constructing stamina and for burning energy. (By the way in which, sprinting makes use of chiefly carbs for power. Stamina runs use a greater section of fats.) If you may have staying power you're going to be competent to hide extra flooring in much less time. The multiplied distance will support burn extra energy. To construct staying power, begin with usual strolling to take a look at for distance. Don't expand distance too quickly -- this can result in overtraining syndrome or burnout. When you'll more commonly run your distance, hold it up for a couple of months. But, do not do the identical factor day-to-day. Run longer on a few days, shorter on others, an leisure day or 2 every week. When you suppose you may have a well cardio base, you'll upload hills to upgrade force. Improvements in force can also be adopted by way of exercises that upgrade pace, and would possibly incorporate a few sprints. Throw in bursts of pace to your distance runs. Try a few four hundred meter durations. Try a few fartlek exercises. You too can range the pace of your exercises, relying on the way you think. You could desire to run quicker on brief runs. You every now and then could desire to venture yourself on medium period runs.

  • 8 years ago

    the best ways an options to burn fats is by lifting weights first.. less rest bewteen your sets.. lift for 45 mins, after the weights are completed.... do cardio for 30 mins after the weight session. or atleast 20 mins.. the body burnt alll the carbs through weights... so fat burning is now easy access when u do cardio...

    also u can run on empty stomach before u eat breakfast... no food in stomach... u burn fat directly

  • 8 years ago

    Treadmill...high incline.....speed walk for 30 mins burns more than 250 calories.

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