15 Feb Susan’s Sound Advice #128
Do you realize that you are actually burning calories while you are reading this? If you are standing while you are reading this, you will burn even more calories. As a matter of fact, if you are standing and pacing around, you will burn even more calories!Many activities that we do on a daily basis burn calories without our knowledge. Did you realize that making the bed burns around 140 calories? Even grocery shopping burns up calories. Below I will list some “outside the box” activities for burning calories.
All the calories burned are based on an hour of activity:
Skiing 600-800 calories
Boxing (punching a heavy bag) burns up between 400-500 calories
Bowling – 211-159 calories
Football, touch or flag -562-689 calories
Golf (carrying clubs) – 387-474
Handball -844-1, 034 calories
martial arts 703-862
Jumping Rope with moderate effort burns up 700-862
Backpacking burns up 492-603 calories
Belly Dancing burns up 500 calories!!
If you enjoy gardening, guess what? You are burning between 300-400 calories if you do it for an hour!
The bottom line: Find something you enjoy doing. If you are doing something that is fun, you will do it more often. You don’t have to be stuck in a rut. If you don’t like the treadmill, try one of the activities I have listed above. When the weather gets warm, there are so many options besides the gym. Swimming, biking, kayaking, fishing, tennis . it’s all out there for you! Hey, is your car dirty? Forget the carwash . do it yourself, you will burn almost 400 calories!!!
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