Re: calories burned using Bullworker?

[Guest guest]

Assume very little calorie burn. That is not the forte of isometric

exercise, for as you can discern, the amount of time you are

actually expending energy is very brief indeed.

IF you feel the need to exercise for calorie burning, there are

superior forms of exercise, such as running, cross country skiing,

rope skipping etc.

Having said that, using exercise in that way MAY not be the best way

to go about it.

Tons of opinions on the matter. It depends who you believe.

However, it is clear that isos are not the way to go if you are

focusing on calories. They do, however, work extremely well to gain

strength.

Good luck.

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> Greetings,

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> I'm new to the group.

>

> I used a Bullworker with some success about 30 years ago. I'm

getting

> another one as a birthday gift (at my request).

>

> I'm wanting to lose weight as well as get more fit, so I am

counting

> calories. To this end, does anyone know about how many calories

per

> minute one burns using the Bullworker?

>

> Thanks very much for this group, and for your replies,

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your reply. I agree that any single exercise, performed

isometrically, wouldn't burn a lot of calories.

Looking at the training sheet for the Bullworker X5 Gold, which I just

received, one can work up to 24 isometric exercises at a time. I

don't know how long this takes, but I would imagine that with

accelerated heart rate, one might burn a significant number of

calories (maybe not a huge amount on any day, but even burning an

additional 50 calories a day five days/week will drop almost 4 pounds

across a year).

And, on the same training sheet, the advanced training calls for up to

25 isotonic exercises with several reps of each exercise. I'd guess

that would burn even more calories.

> >

> > Greetings,

> >

> > I'm new to the group.

> >

> > I used a Bullworker with some success about 30 years ago. I'm

> getting

> > another one as a birthday gift (at my request).

> >

> > I'm wanting to lose weight as well as get more fit, so I am

> counting

> > calories. To this end, does anyone know about how many calories

> per

> > minute one burns using the Bullworker?

> >

> > Thanks very much for this group, and for your replies,

> >

> >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

I recommend bodyweight callies over isotonic BW contractions.

Pushups, pullups, squats etc.

Good luck

> > >

> > > Greetings,

> > >

> > > I'm new to the group.

> > >

> > > I used a Bullworker with some success about 30 years ago. I'm

> > getting

> > > another one as a birthday gift (at my request).

> > >

> > > I'm wanting to lose weight as well as get more fit, so I am

> > counting

> > > calories. To this end, does anyone know about how many

calories

> > per

> > > minute one burns using the Bullworker?

> > >

> > > Thanks very much for this group, and for your replies,

> > >

> > >

> > >

> >

>

[Guest guest]

If you want to loose fat you should look how much fat you are loosing

not the total weight. Bullworker can burn only few calories during the

workout but increases you're resting metabolic rate that can burn

around 300 calories based on the muscle you gain. Research by Dr.

Westcott and other experts in the field found that men and women who

added between 5-10 pounds of muscle after 16 weeks of strength training

increased their resting metabolic rate by 200-300 calories a day. Dr.

Ellis contradicts this and

Claims a single pound of muscle uses only 5 calories. My body fat %

didn't dropped much when I was doing cycling every day for 30 minutes

but it went 3 points down when I trained isometrics every day even

though I gained few pounds. I know Dr. Ellis is an expert in human

metabolism but I go by what works in reality. I don't know whether Dr.

Ellis has any research to backup his claim. Always measure the fat not

your total weight and compare the fat weight. I am using taylor body

fat analyzer which I bought in walmart for around 30-40$. It shows the

body fat % and don't know how accurate it is….

Fat weight at the beginning= (body weight/100*fat%)

Muscle+bone weight at the beginning: (body weight- Fat weight at the

beginning)

Fat weight at the end = (body weight/100*fat%)

Muscle+bone weight at the end: (body weight- Fat weight at the end)

Muscle gained = Muscle+bone weight at the end- Muscle+bone weight at

the beginning

Fat lost or gained (if the result is in negative) = Fat weight at the

end- Fat weight at the beginning

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> Greetings,

>

> I'm new to the group.

>

> I used a Bullworker with some success about 30 years ago. I'm getting

> another one as a birthday gift (at my request).

>

> I'm wanting to lose weight as well as get more fit, so I am counting

> calories. To this end, does anyone know about how many calories per

> minute one burns using the Bullworker?

>

> Thanks very much for this group, and for your replies,

>

>

>