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Calorie burning exercises are all around us and we need to look at the best way to use our time to burn the calories from the food that we eat.For an individual who is overweight, exercising to lose that weight is one of the most rewarding activities you will ever embark upon.  However, there are literally thousands of activities you can do to burn calories. Don’t think that it is just your workout that is burning calories as there are many calorie burning exercises and activities.

What Calorie Burning Exercises do You Choose?

Calorie burning exercises

Calorie burning exercises with Stationary Bike

It can be intimidating, to say the least, wondering where to start with such a varied array of exercises.  There are certain activities, though, that can take calorie burning to a whole different level. Listed below are the top X ways to burn calories (note: number of calories burned per activity assume a body weight of 150 pounds and exercise time of 30 minutes).

These activities can be split up into three general groups: Gym activities, training and sports activities, and daily life activities.

The top gym activities for burning calories

  • Vigorously riding a stationary bicycle — 358 calories
  • Step aerobics using a ten to twelve inch step — 341 calories
  • Stairstep machine without using the hand rails — 307 calories
  • Vigorously using a stationary rowing machine — 289 calories
  • Step aerobics using a six to eight inch step — 289 calories
  • General vigorous calisthenics — 273 calories
  • Using an elliptical trainer — 245 calories

The top training and sports activities for burning calories

  • Running at ten mph — 545 calories
  • Bicycle lane at twenty miles an hour — 545 calories
  • Rollerblading — 426 calories
  • Bicycling at sixteen to nineteen miles an hour — 409 calories
  • Running at seven miles an hour — 392 calories
  • Bicycling at fifteen miles an hour — 341 calories
  • Vigorously swimming laps — 341 calories
  • Practicing Martial Arts — 341 calories
  • Running at five miles an hours — 307 calories
  • Playing competetive football — 307 calories
  • BMX or mountain biking — 290 calories
  • Vigorously downhill skiing — 282 calories

The top daily life activities for burning calories

  • Moving household furniture — 205 calories
  • Shoveling snow — 205 calories
  • Mowing lawn with a push mower — 187 calories
  • Digging dirt — 170 calories
  • Hanging storm windows — 170 calories
  • Caulking windows — 153 calories
  • Playing moderately active child games — 136 calories
  • Bathing your dog — 119 calories
  • Vacuuming — 119 calories
  • Washing your car — 102 calories
  • Reading a book — 34 calories
  • Sleeping — 31 calories

As you can see, there are a number of activities which can be employed to lose weight.  The most effective exercises may not be a surprise to you — running, bicycling, and step aerobics are at the top.  But you may have been surprised to read that you can burn 136 calories just by playing with the child for a half hour.  By using this list you will be able to custom tailor your workout routine to your exact needs.


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What is Interval Training?

I’ve seen interval training get a lot of attention recently because it is supposed to be a quick way to get fit, in this article we look at what it actually is. Interval training is when you use timed intervals to alternate between two different levels of intensity as you exercise. For example, you could warm up, then go on the treadmill for 1 minute of easy jogging at 7km/h, then crank it up to 14km/h for 1 minute, then go back to 7km/h and repeat that for as long as you want to train for.

The reason this is so good is because if you tried to push yourself to do 14km/h on the treadmill for as long as possible in one session then you might only last a few minutes, then you’d stop because you were exhausted. With interval training then the recovery interval you give yourself after each intense interval allows you to push on and do far more of the intense intervals than you could do if you tried to do them all in one go.

Another thing I have found with interval training is that as you are so focused on waiting for the minute to end so you can change the speed up or down, then time goes by much faster. Usually jogging is incredibly boring for me and after 5 minutes I am fed up and just want it to end, but I don’t get that with interval training.

Interval training is probably a more natural way to exercise anyway, consider sports, when you are close to the action then you are doing an intense interval as you try and get the ball etc, then you get to rest as the action moves away from you. Plus we have actually descended from hunters, and that is how they would have exerted themselves too.

The treadmill was just an example though, you can actually use interval training to spice up almost any kind of exercise, you could be on the elliptical trainer, the rowing machine, or even out on a normal bike on the roads. The good news is that studies suggest your metabolism can be elevated for hours after finishing interval training, rather than returning straight back to normal after most other types of exercise, so you are burning fat for a long time even after you finish your workout!

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