In principle, the recipe for losing weight is quite simple: Your body must consume more calories than you consume. There are different ways to reach your goal.
The most important point is nutrition - no amount of exercise in the world can completely buffer an unhealthy, fatty, high-calorie, high-sugar diet.
However, exercise is still an important supporting factor if you want to lose weight. To make sure you're exercising as effectively as possible when losing weight with cardio, we've taken a close look at calorie burn with different cardio machines.
Important facts about calorie consumption on different cardio machines
Endurance sports stimulate fat burning, train fitness and the muscles in various ways. Very important: You should always train with fun!
Calorie consumption varies from person to person. The basis of our infographic is an averagely trained person with a weight of 75kg. Muscles naturally burn more calories than fat tissue, for example. This means that a well-trained person consumes more calories than an untrained person of the same weight.
By exercising at a low intensity with a steady load, you mainly train your endurance. To burn more fat, you should use interval training with high intensity on cardio machines. Here, too, your calorie consumption differs from the average values in the infographic.
Calorie consumption: Cardio machines perform relatively similarly
The treadmill is slightly in the lead: here you burn approx. 810 calories per hour. Crosstrainer, stepper and rowing machine are on a par with 800 kcal per hour, closely followed by the bicycle ergometer, where you burn 780 calories per hour. With indoor cycling you only lose 720 kcal per hour, so although the machine is slightly behind in terms of calorie consumption, the fun factor is particularly high here.
Basically, you should look at more factors than just calorie consumption when choosing cardio equipment for your workout. Cross trainers and bicycle ergometers are particularly easy on the joints, while rowing machines, treadmills and steppers are particularly suitable for HIIT. With the indoor cycle you can really step on the gas and simply have a lot of fun while training.
And of course: if you have the opportunity to use different cardio machines during your workout, then go ahead and try it out. In a good gym you will find a selection of high-quality cardio equipment, so you can train according to your mood of the day.
Conclusion
The treadmill tops the rankings for calories burned per hour among the cardio machines featured. However, you can achieve a good calorie burn on all cardio machines. The most important thing is that you enjoy your workout and keep at it to achieve long-term training success.
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Editors fitnessmarkt.de (DG)
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Published on: 15 May 2019