{"id":1585,"date":"2014-05-08T02:36:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T07:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/?p=1585"},"modified":"2014-05-10T08:28:08","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T13:28:08","slug":"workout-showdown-halfway-point-what-burns-more-calories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/powerfulhunger.com\/powerful_hunger_blog\/workout-showdown-halfway-point-what-burns-more-calories\/","title":{"rendered":"Workout Showdown Halfway Point: What Burns More Calories?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m halfway through my simple experiment to see what burns more calories: One 30 minute session of intense cardio or two 15-minute sessions, one first thing in the morning and one in the late afternoon\/early evening. I’ve kept it very straightforward and basic. I don’t even know if I will see much of a difference but that’s the point of the experiment!<\/p>\n

Looking back over the past week, I think it’s beneficial to see that I’m quite consistent. I did 30 minutes of cardio on a stair stepper\/climber with a heart rate strap to make sure I was keeping the intensity high and consistent. The BodyBugg recorded the steps. I also got out and walked to bring my total step count for each day up to about 10,000. One day I got in a bit more but mostly I stayed around the 10K per day. From a low day of 2150 total calories to a high day of 2190 total calories, I’m within a very narrow range. I actually think that’s rather amazing. I’m assuming it speaks to my days being very similar. I will attempt to keep things the same for the next week.\u00a0Only one day did I go higher to a calorie burn total of 2270 but I walked over 11,000 steps that day.<\/p>\n

Consistent as well was the calorie burn for the cardio session itself. Each session I did 2000 steps which I tend to hit right around 31 minutes or so. I wanted to do a particular step count within the same time period so I’d know I was keeping the intensity about the same. The numbers would indicate I did that well! From a low of 228 calories burned to a high of 247 calories, I’m working about the same day to day.<\/p>\n

I’m recording my calorie usage with the BodyBugg version 3. This was licensed at the time by Apex but it is the BodyMedia device.<\/p>\n

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Now we’ll see how I do for the next 7 days! I will do 15 minutes fairly soon after getting up each morning. Now that I’ve been doing 30 minutes, I feel like half that will be easy to pound out. I want to see if I have a natural sense to work harder. I will get on the stepper knowing that I don’t have to pace myself for a whole half hour. One odd thing I’ve noticed. I begin to feel it if the pedals hit bottom too hard. I switched out the rather thin old towel I was using to add extra padding under the bumpers. I dug out a huge beach towel so there’s plenty of cushion now!<\/p>\n

My primary thought on the findings so far\u2014My body sure likes 2100-ish calories a day! OK we’ll see if I’m going to be able to\u00a0break out of that and try to go a bit higher.<\/p>\n

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I’m halfway through my simple experiment to see what burns more calories: One 30 minute session of intense cardio or two 15-minute sessions, one first thing in the morning and one in the late afternoon\/early evening. I’ve kept it very straightforward and basic. I don’t even know if I will see much of a difference … <\/p>\n

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