does a heavier person burn more calories doing the same exercise as a thinnner person?
543919
I'm not sure why, but yes, they do.
921925
Some is marketing.  Bigger is better.  But it is also that large men have tremendous fluctuation in their weight.   An NFL lineman might gain and lose 100lbs every year.  Wrestlers spend tremendous hours in the gym and burn incredible amounts of calories.  They have to work very hard to keep that muscle and not let it turn to fat.  5 lbs change from one day to the next is not unusual.  Over a couple weeks that can be significant.
523407
It depends on how intense youre doing it. If youre going at moderate pace you would lose about 500 or so calories in an hour. But when you go intense, you lose more calories alot after the work out. \n\n(All I said was for cardio exercise.)
162049
That's going to vary from person to person.  The fact that they don't exercise is going to decrease the ideal amount of calories.  The US likes to think that 2000 to 2500 calories is ideal, but if you're weightlifting and doing aerobic exercise, you can eat 3000 calories and still lose weight.  It also depends what kind of calories you're eating.  Calories from fat take a longer time to burn, whereas simple sugars don't take as long.  But if they don't do much exercise during their standard day, I'd recommend 2000 calories.
799456
Yes, it effectivley burns calories, but if your going to try to use it as a dieting technique, forget it, it doesn't burn THAT many calories.
534000
if youre refering to lifting weights..we usually dont..but with other stuff you usually go at your own pace, for a certain number...then the number increases, so you usually go slower because your muscles are burning.
873320
Yes, you do burn calories while sleeping.   It depends on your physical condition and the amount of physical activities you do during the day.  An ordinary 160 lb person can burn an average of 550 calories during an 8 hr. sleep. The more physical activities you do, the more calories you will burn while sleeping.
280965
Running actually burns more calories, about 1,000 per hour on average compared with about 600 per hour cycling. Both are great forms of exercise but as several people have mentioned here running can be hard on the body. Cycling also has its down side. There can be loss of bloodflow to the pelvic region from sitting on seat for long periods of time. If you are going for weight loss the best thing to do would be both. Strictly focusing on one or the other will get your body into a routine and after a while you may stop seeing results. Doing both also gives you the option to do something else.
1068754
Cardio will help you burn more calories. Strength training will make your body look more solid and help your bones be strong. Both are important.
317573
Weight loss works one way only.  To take in less calories than you burn in a day.  A 150- lb woman needs 1700 calories per day to run her organs.  If she were to do NO exercise and eat exactly 1700 calories, she would maintain.  If she were to do some exercise and burn 350 calories per day, it would take her 10 days to lose 1 pound.  (3500 calories = 1 lb.)  If she were to also drop her daily intake to 1350 calories, she would lose that pound in 5 days.  \nThe type of exercise you do has an impact on your body too.  If you were to do strength training, you would tone muscles, becoming more "cut" and if you used heavier weights, you would start to bulk up.  If you were to do aerobics, cardio-vascular exercise, this is good for flushing fat out without a specific target area.  Running is scary becuase it's easy to over- do it.  You should exercise a rate where you can speak a few sentences or sing a few lines, in between breaths.  If you're so winded you can't squeak a sentence out, you're overdoing it and BURNING MUSCLE.  I'm sure you would hate to become weaker through your running, so just be careful of that.
699143
i heard ankle/wrist weight do a number on your joints. It can increase the risk of strain and injury\n\nbut it's logical to think that they would help you because you'd be using more energy with them..if you didn't use the weighs\n\n"Adding weight will allow you to burn more calories per mile, but only about 5-8 calories more per mile for every 10 pounds added. Compare that to walking a quarter of a mile - a 100 pound person burns 15 calories in a quarter mile at an easy pace, while a 200 pound person burns 30 calories. That takes only 5 more minutes and you aren't increasing your risk of injury."
737734
Depends on what you eat.  You need to combine excercise with a diet low in calories.
40837
Yes.  Muscle weighs more than fat but gives the body a physically fit appearance. Fat does not. For example;  if you take 2 people who are both the same height and weigh 170 lbs. but one is 28% fat and the other is 40%, the person with the 40% fat will look physically overweight even though they both weigh the same.  So, you can stay the same weight over time but look overweight when you lose muscle mass and gain fat instead.
775343
No, weight lifting isn't a cardiovascular exercise. The reason you don't burn as much calories as running is because you don't get your heart pumping to such an extent and your heart rate maintains at a fairly low state usually. You can however combine cardio and weight lifting. Lift weights for about an hour and afterwards burn yourself out and play some basketball or jog for a little.\n\nADDITION:\nJust like the guy below me said, weight lifting isn't bad either. I've maintained to strictly weight lifting and once I get to the size that I am satisfied with, I will start cutting. Reason being, the more muscle you have, the higher your resting metabolic rate(means that you will lose more calories than the average man while simply doing nothing). I'd prefer to get muscular first and then cut because it will only help the latter process and allow me to cut easily. Not only this, but adding muscle to your frame places less emphasis on your fat.
363178
The best way to trim that is to increase the number of calories you are burning. The best way to do *that* is to perform more aerobic activities, like running or cycling. You can also increase calorie burning in a weightlifting workout but minimizing the amount of time you rest between sets (something less than one minute of rest).
305533
there is no relation between the two...\n\nwhile u exercising, your muscles will work and increases the body temperature ( you know how ?? ).  \nwhenever you work/exercise, it uses the calories ( from carbohydrates/fat) and burn them. in this burning process heat will be produced. Due to this your inner body temperature increase than the outer body temperature...then it causes for sweat.\n\nIn second case, in hot weather your body temp rises ( not due to burning of calories)... so here you sweat..\n\nSo due to hot weather we don't burn calories.  ( very few ..negligible comparing to exercise )
755464
you need to find how many calories the exercise burn, find your resting metabolic rate, subtract 500 calories from that, 500 calorie reduction cause weight loss of 1 lb, but be sure to take in min of 1200 calories per day for healthy food and protein,  and half you body weight in oz. per day of water, protein is your energy source when exercising if you do not have proper protein intake you body will burn the muscle convert to fat and use that for energy, if you take in protein your body will burn the fat to help process the protein thus leaving you lean and not fluffy.