Smart Weight Loss Edge

Activity is great…and activities that really burn off the calories can be very beneficial as well! But how can you tell how much calories you really burn off during specific exercises?

One way is to simply research the activity! Useful places for that include:

• Health Status Calorie Burner Estimator
• Calories Burned Per Activity
• FitDay Calorie Burn

Sites like the above let you input your activity, your weight, your height, and then calculate how many calories will be burned during it. Some of them include:

• Band - baton twirling, marching
• Band - marching, playing instrument
• Band - marching, rapid speed
• Bicycling - stationary, moderate
• Bicycling - stationary, vigorous
• Canoeing - whitewater
• Canoeing - harvesting wild rice
• Carrying - groceries up stairs
• Carrying - moving boxes up stairs
• Crutches - walking with
• Cultivating Garden
• Darts (wall or lawn)
• Desk Work (office work)
• Dressing and Undressing
• Farming - grooming animals
• Farming - hauling water
• Forestry Work - weeding
• Forking Bales of Hay
• Gambling - casino, sitting
• Health Club Exercise - general
• High Jump
• Jazzercise - general
• Jet Ski
• Linen - changing
• Linoleum - laying
• Music - playing trumpet
• Pilates
• Piloting Airplane
• Ping Pong
• Police Work - making arrest
• Police Work - directing traffic
• Poultry Work
• Removing - paint (scraping paint)
• Repair Work - light parts, sitting
• Scene Shop Work (theater)
• School - attending class
• Sexual Activity - vigorous
• Sitting - talking or talking on phone
• Sitting - spectating at sports event
• Skiing - cross-country, uphill (maximum)
• Skiing - water
• Stair Step Machine - general
• Tackle Football
• Tae Bo - moderate
• Unicycling
• Wallyball
• Waltz (dancing)
• Washing - hands
• Writing - sitting

As you can see, lots of ‘em!

Enjoy,

Staff

ps - it’s always good to check your heart rate when working out, with items like:
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