{"id":400,"date":"2011-09-30T00:49:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T00:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/?p=400"},"modified":"2011-12-02T14:45:14","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T14:45:14","slug":"elliptical-calories-burned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/elliptical-calories-burned\/","title":{"rendered":"Elliptical Machine and Amount of Calories burned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-406 alignright\" title=\"Elliptical Calories Burned\" src=\"http:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/elliptical-calories-burned.jpg\" alt=\"Elliptical Calories Burned\" width=\"164\" height=\"197\" \/>An elliptical trainer is a machine that is a combination of the treadmill, ski machine and a stepping machine. It imitates walking, running, climbing without putting stress on joints.\u00a0Elliptical\u00a0exercises\u00a0can vary from light to high intensity based on the resistance preference set.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Calories burned on elliptical trainer<\/strong> are almost the same to that on a <strong>treadmill<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>30 minutes on elliptical trainer\u00a0burn approximately 300 calories, and body continues to burn calories at for some time afterwards. It tones the entire body, which makes it look leaner.<\/p>\n<p>By moving forward on the machine we work leg\u00a0muscles:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Quadriceps (the muscles on the front of our thighs)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Gluteal muscles (our butt muscles)<\/p>\n<h2>How to burn more calories on elliptical<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Elliptical gives all the cardio-aerobics benefits and helps burning calories fast.<\/li>\n<li>Slightly\u00a0more calories burned by going in reverse on elliptical, but it\u2019s still not enough to justify the potential pressure put on the knees.<\/li>\n<li>Getting your balance on an elliptical machine can be a difficult at first. But note that you\u2019ll burn more calories if you let go of the handles than if you&#8217;ll be hanging on.\u00a0Hands-free position also helps achieve better posture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Is elliptical calories burned accurate<\/h3>\n<p>If you are not sure whether your elliptical machine shows you right amount of calories burned,\u00a0I would\u00a0recommend\u00a0researching and buying a good heart rate monitor. They go as a watch or a chest-strap. Body heart rate monitors usually much more\u00a0accurate measuring <strong>elliptical calories burned<\/strong> than the calculators included\u00a0to elliptical and\u00a0treadmills.<\/p>\n<p>elliptical machine calories burned<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elliptical trainer is a machine that is a combination of the treadmill, ski machine and a stepping machine. It imitates walking, running, climbing without putting stress on joints.\u00a0Elliptical\u00a0exercises\u00a0can vary from light to high intensity based on the resistance preference set. Calories burned on elliptical trainer are almost the same to that on a treadmill. <a href='https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/elliptical-calories-burned\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calories-burned","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecaloriecounter.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}