Hmm...biking must be different from running. I run thirty minutes a day on a treadmill and it displays the calories burned as 600. However, I do run it pretty fast. It says that the calories burned per hour is 1200 when running at a 7:00 minute mile pace. Also remember that someone weighing 300 pounds who jogs for an hour burns calories a lot faster than someone who is 175 pounds and jogs for an hour. If you want to test out some excersises for the number of calories burned check out this website: http://www.nutri-facts.com/calcalc.asp I don't think estimating the calories burned is anywhere close to being an exact science, but according to them, a 300 pound person playing basketball for 120 minutes burns 1600 calories.
I guess it depends on intensity but most people only do about half an hour and not so intense. And it's hard to expect a fatty like Mo to do an hour of cardio. And a 300pnd person playing for 2 hours straight could have some unwanted side effects like a heart attack or death.
Very true. Plus, he's not going to want to overextend himself after coming off the injury. I'm sure he'll start out slow and then as time goes on his workouts will steadily increase. Hopefully Keith Jones or someone else is going to be working with Taylor over the summer, rather than just letting him go play pickup games at his own leisure.
BTM I think your numbers are a little skewed. While it is true that there are 3,500 calories in 1# of body fat, you have mistated the basal metalbolic rate for a person to weigh 260#'s. That number is 3,900 calories per day (not 3,000 as you have stated). That is for a person with an average metabolic rate, not an athlete. In order to lose 70#'s, an average person will need a deficit of 245,000 calories. If in one day, a person restricts their dietary intake by a mere 750 calories (3,900 BMR - 750 = 3,150) and works out to the point of 750 calories per day then 245,000 excess calories are consummed in 5.4 months (about early November). This is in the range of 3#'s per week. No offense, but I think your estimate of 40 weeks is more inflatted than Mo's abdomen.
With all due respect fellas...who gives a rat's ass about calorie intake, metabolism, cardio, ultra cardio, or anything else like that....the point is that MO T was a horrible player before the injury and now he is a horrible AND overweight player. He hasn't shown one OUNCE of work ethic in his entire career so if you think he is going to all of a sudden turn into Jack Lalanne, you are sadly mistaken. It's over for MO...throw in the towel (or the tarp in his case)
Really? Not according to Clutch's article: <i> Last offseason, Taylor had done just about everything that could have been asked of him. By all accounts he got in great shape, improved his game with offseason workouts and was ready to step it up this season. </i>
3pnds of fat per week is disgustingly unhealthy except for morbidly obese people. Also, if you lose fat that quickly you will shed muscle like crazy along with it. I think your estimate of 3pnds per week is terribly unrealistic and downright unhealthy. Every indication I know is that you shouldn't expect to ever lose more than 1.5pnds in 7-10 days. That is if you don't want to destroy your body.
BTM, The Summer between 10th and 11th grade I lost at least 30lbs, probably closer to 40lbs. I played basketball everyday for at least 3 hours, usually 5 or 6 hours. I think what helped the most was not eating fast food for over a year. I wasn't huge either, just chunky like Mo. I think he could do the same with proper diet and a lot of exercise.
Oh of course. Metabolism decreases w/ age. And W2C, you probably lost some lean mass(muscle) as well. And we're also talking about 70pnds on a lazy 27 year old man.
Maybe Subway can sponser a weight-loss contest between Mo and Barkley, so that we can see something other than those damn Jared commercials. A few years back, I saw a list of the "all dinner-table team" for the NBA. Notables that I remember were Mel "Dinner Bell" Turpin, Stanley Roberts, Oliver Miller, etc. Who would be on the team now? Of course, you have to start with Tractor Traylor and Shawn Kemp, and now, apparently, big Mo.
Krusty: "I've been trying to get back into shape, so I've been eating nothing but milk shakes." Lisa: "You mean those low calorie diet shakes?" Krusty: "ughhhhh."
Funny thing is I KNEW the response to this one would be giant. There are those who absolutely cannot wait for Taylor or Steve or Cuttino or Kenny or Cato or whoever it might be to fall flat on their faces. That's just really surprising to me. Did anyone hate Mario Elie or Vernon Maxwell or Robert Horry or Otis Thorpe or Sam Cassell or Calvin Murphy or Moses Malone...this much? Seems like our players inspire more hate than love in many. Is it just because they've sucked lately? If they become contenders, will you change your minds? More importantly, if Mo comes back from this injury and becomes a productive part of the team, will you admit you were wrong? In mid season, I was told that Mo was in tremendous shape. They even did a story about how in shape he was on Fox news. I don't know what happened. Maybe he had a setback in his rehab and couldn't run for a month. Maybe he is testing out the spokesmodel job for Wendy's. Who the hell knows. Whatever the case, he's apparently overweight and needs to get in shape.
Nobody gains seventy pounds in a month! Stop defending the guy man. He's been an underachiever his whole career for as talented as he is. He got in great shape to get a contract. He got his deal and let himself go ala Shawn Kemp. This is the kinda thing that can set an entire franchise back. We already had semi dead weight in Cato and Rice, now we have a third ball and chain on the team.
Mario Elie or Vernon Maxwell or Robert Horry or Otis Thorpe or Sam Cassell or Calvin Murphy or Moses Malone none of them got payed like Mo Taylor at least not by Houston
Jeff, he gets paid way too much money to pack on 70 pounds of lard when he should be staying in shape. Hell, you shouldn't even have to tell these athletes to stay in shape, it should be almost manditory. Now instead of coming back healthy and ready to go he's coming back with the weight of an Olsen twin distributed around his underachieving body.
