12-13k steps is roughly six miles. How many calories that burns depends on your height/weight mostly(speed changes very little), but lets just say you're 5'7 and 200 lbs. for all of this(if you weigh more, you'll burn more, less if less). That would mean you burn a max of 700 calories walking. I'm not a fan of using machines since they put your body in unnatural positions during the workout, but they still work. You could burn about 350 calories with 30 minutes of rowing(depends on pace). 30 minutes of yoga could burn up to 200 calories(depends on intensity). You didn't mention any exercises with the weights, so I can't include anything there.DancesWithWerewolves wrote:I do a very significant amount of walking every day (no car helps with that). I've been averaging about 12-13k steps daily. I also own and use a row machine, it's the only machine I own and can fit in my dinky apartmentI also still attempt yoga, but it's difficult to maintain right now with my escalated weight. I also have a couple hand weights. For two years I had a gym membership and went regularly (I rotated a lot of machines there, but stayed away from the body builder section that had it's own special room) but I cancelled because I couldn't afford it anymore. Think I've been away from the gym for almost 2 years now?
I did also find out I could have a heart murmur/hole that my mom and sister has. I have not gone to a doctor (would need $$$) but when i read about it, I matched the symptoms to a T better than anything else I tried looking up for issues. So it basically explains why I burn out extremely fast when I do exhausting stuff.
So say you do your walking, 30 minute of rowing, and 30 minutes of yoga; that's a max of 1250 calories burned. The average person takes in around 2500+ calories a day. I don't know what you eat, so I can't comment here, but a banana has ~100 calories, an egg ~85, an apple ~100, and those are good things. Eat a 1/4 cheeseburger and you're looking at 300+ with no other toppings. A slice of bacon is ~50. Shit adds up quick.
One big myth is that cardio is a great way to burn calories. It's pretty ineffectual. It would take over two hours of running(running, not jogging) to burn off 1250 calories. You could do much better lifting weights. You say you have a couple weights, but I don't know if it's enough for a full workout. If it is, a 30-40 minute workout a day is plenty. Pick five exercises, do each for three sets, 10-12 reps each set. Take a one minute break between each set. With weights, it's all about intensity and form. Good form with lots of intensity(last couple should be difficult) will burn tons of calories. Just follow the 3/1/3 rule. Three seconds up, hold for one second, three seconds down. Muscle burns alot of calories, so the more you have, the more you burn.
If weights aren't an option, you can go with bodyweight exercises. The bigger you are, the harder they'll be at the start, though. Pushups and pullups are excellent exercises, and there's tons of varieties, so you won't get bored. Just do them to exhaustion, rest for a minute, then go again. Repeat three or four times. Burpees are another great bodyweight exercise. Again, three or four sets, with a one minute rest between sets. Wall squats are great for the legs and you don't really do anything except wait. Try to make it to a minute, rest 30 seconds, then go again.
I dunno if any of that helps at all, but it's the best I can do with the information I have. There's a ton of factors involved with this shit, so it's hard to do over the internet.
Sorry to hear about the heart murmur. That's a case where you hope you're wrong.
