I try to do a modest workout each day of one half hour on either the treadmill or stairclimber. By doing so, I can burn about 500 calories a day.
I know I won’t be able to workout tomorrow. I’ve already done my half-hour/500 calories at lunchtime today and am wondering if I can ‘make up’ for the workout I’ll miss tomorrow by doing an extra 500 calories later today?
The specific goal of these workouts is weightloss.
Thanks!
I don’t know. Can you?
It’s worth a try, but since you’re not used to it, you’ll probably find it difficult to replicate the intensity of your earlier workout.
Just take the day off. If you are pretty regular, one skipped day isnt going to hurt you. What specifically is keeping you from working out? You dont have to be at the gym to workout. Go for run during lunch, climb a couple of stairs, sissy squats, abs, etc…
500 calories won’t make a huge difference, it is 1/7th of a pound. Can you try walking tomorrow instead of doing cardio?
I find that days when I miss a workout are the days that I am most likely to lose weight. I don’t know why that is. Anyway, if you can, assuage your guilt about that missed workout by going for a walk, or some other activity like that. Hey, you could scrub floors and it won’t seem too bad, because it’s not housework, it’s a workout 
Interestingly enough, it’s also about 1/6th of what you burn running a marathon.
I’d say yes, you should be able to push yourself and do a longer cardio workout for weight loss. The cons include that pushing yourself harder today mean your second workout is less intense than it would have been, recovery time may be greater, disrupts your routine yada yada. The pros include that if you can handle longer sessions you may be able to increase your workout times routinely and lose more weight, and that longer cardio workouts are often more effective at fat burning than shorter ones. This is because the initial part of a workout uses the most accessible energy you have – food recently eaten, sugars, “glycogen reserve” etc. and not energy that is metabolically “harder” to access such as stored fat. I have do this all the time, for reasons of an unseemly work schedule.
I’ll answer this from just my personal experience. I would do extra to make up for the missed work-out.
Not so much for physical reasons, but for mental ones. I know from past experience if I absolutely must miss one work out one week, the next week I am more likely to miss one again, but for a less valid reason. Sort of like thinking, “well I missed one last week and that didn’t hurt me, so if I miss today that won’t be too bad either, may as well sleep in.”
But if I must miss one work-out, and then the next day I do double, well that is hard work, my muscles ache, I am sore, it sucks. So they next time I consider sleeping in (or whatever might prevent me from working out) and missing a work-out, and I know the next day I will be hurting, I am much more likely to stick with my original plan to avoid the punishment I will give myself for skipping one.
But if this doesn’t seem to be something that you have to worry about, skipping one now and then can give your body a chance to rest and will not have that much of an overall negative effect