Calories Burned From Various Activities

Calories Burned From Various Activities

Calories Burned

This is about how many calories are burned doing various activities vs the calories we take in from the various foods we might eat.

The calories burned are often a big mystery in most people’s minds. We all have our general ideas that the calories burned are greater as we exert ourselves more. First, exactly what are the amount of calories burned for the various activities and exercises? Second, let’s compare the calories in the various foods we eat to find out how we end up at the end of a typical day.

We can start with sleeping. We burn about eleven calories every ten minutes, so the amount would be about 528 calories in eight hours.

The calories you burn just being awake and generally doing nothing is about 12-15 calories per 10 minutes.

Calories consumed every 10 minutes:

11 Resting
30 House Cleaning
36 Vacuuming
37 Moderate Weight Lifting
50 Gardening
56 Rebounding
75 Brisk Walking
75 Downhill Skiing Moderate
75 Vigorous Weight Lifting
75 Bicycling 10 mph
75 Walking uphill 3.5 mph
88 Vigorous Aerobics
95 Running 12 minute mile
106 Step Aerobics 6-8 inches high
125 Step Aerobics 10-12 inches high
125 Moderate Jump Rope

Calories Burned

When you combine this with the amount of calories burned from the food you eat, you have an idea what it takes to maintain, reduce or increase your existing weight. It also gives you an idea of what it takes to lose one pound of fat or gain one pound of muscle.

Generally, one pound of fat equals 3500 calories. Over 20 days, this only averages 175 calories a day. It is very easy to eat 175 calories more a day than you burn. It is easier to eat one less large cookie than jump rope non stop for about 15 minutes. The best is to do both.

For more on calories from various foods go to: My Blog: Calories Burned From Various Foods

For the total calories burned each day vs the total calories eaten each day go to: My Blog: Calories Burned From Food vs Daily Activity (published 12/23/09)

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