| Physical Activity | Calories Burnt (in 1/2 hr) |
| wakeboarding | 170 |
| Basketball | 258 |
| Badminton | 125 |
| Bowling | 108 |
| Brisk walking | 150 |
| Cycling | 150 |
| Dancing | 130 |
| Driving a car | 50 |
| Fishing | 114 |
| Gardening | 150-200 |
| Golf | 108 |
| Hockey | 249 |
| Horse riding | 255 |
| House work | 75-125 |
| Ice skating | 315 |
| Jogging | 300-450 |
| Judo | 363 |
| Kissing (Lips locking) | 6.4 cal per minute |
| Taking the stairs | 25 |
| Washing the dishes | 50 |
| Mountain climbing | 270 |
| Cooking from scratch | 50 |
| Roller skating | 315 |
| Running | 325 |
| Sitting at the desk | 25 |
| Skiing | 252 |
| Squash | 325 |
| Shopping | 120 |
| Driving | 60 |
| Swimming | 250 |
| Tennis | 261 |
| Volley ball | 93 |
| Watching TV | 50 |
| Talking on the phone while walking | 60-75 |
| Talking on the phone while sitting | 40 |
| Reading a book | 80 |
| Chewing a gum | 6 |
The amount of calories burned during physical activity is governed by a number of factors that include, weight of the person, the physical fitness level, metabolism, type of exercise, time of exercising, and the intensiveness of the exercise.
These figures are based on a moderate intensity level.
A heavier person burns more calories with the same amount of physical activity, since the body requires more efforts to move the heavy body while exercising.
Exercising harder and faster increases the calories expended because moving faster requires more effort and more effort always requires more energy.
But to burn fat it is better to exercise over a longer time of light exercise.
Carbs provide a faster energy source. So whenever you need to exercise, carbs are the better fuel. Fats are favored during long, low-intensity activities.
So doing cardio for only 15 minutes makes no sense. In the first 25 minutes, your body uses energy from glycogen ( the reserve of carbs). Burning fat starts after 25 minutes of exercise.
Exercising in the morning before having your breakfast will make you burn fat directly without burning the glycogen before.
Burning both fat calories and carb calories can result in fat loss.
Even small amounts of exercise are great for your health. Just moving a little every day can improve metabolic functions.
If you have not been active before, then doing 30 minutes of low-intensity activity can still help you lose weight.
Always remember to warm up slowly and to cool down gradually.
PS:
Care should be taken by everyone when performing any new exercise, especially if the exercise is intense or performed for a long duration.
The intensity level for all exercises should be built up gradually over time until the body becomes use to it.
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half an hour jogging 300-450 is too much
are those for real?
Actually, jogging for half an hour non- stop burns almost 300 calories (jogging not walking). But if you have extra weight, you will burn up to 450 calories, because your body recquires more effort.
These figures are general. Burning calories also depends on the metabolism and the intensiveness of the exercise.
The more muscles you have, the higher is your metabolism, and the more intense your exercise is, the more calories you burn.
waw nice
The lip-locked kissing looks like a fun way of burning some calories.
Arc-trainers burn almost as much calories as Squash. I think it has something to do with the way it forces you to move your legs up and down.
I did 60 minutes of arc trainer yesterday and the machine readout showed 960 calories burned. However, I also had the HRM (Heart rate monitor) hooked up to my chest and it showed 850 calories (which is more accurate since it has my weight/age data matched with the heart rate).
So around 800 calories would be the normal for most people if you do it at a sufficient intensity.
great! and you need to know as well the calories you burned are those used fom carbs or fat:)
weight also plays a role in that, the more overweight a person is, the more calories he wil burn.
but since you put your age and weight, so this can be accurate for you!
I use the Polar RS100 heart rate monitor. Besides the calories burned, it also estimates and displays the percentage of fat burned.
http://www.polarusa.com/us-en/products/get_active/running_multisport/RS100/
From its technical description...
Some Polar products also estimate the fat-burning percentage (fat% on display), that is, kilocalories expended from fat during a workout which is expressed as a percentage of the total kilocalories burned.
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