100 cal workout- Fab or Fad?

paytonchristine00
paytonchristine00 Posts: 9 Member
edited November 14 in Fitness and Exercise
So there is a workout swimming around the internet that states if you do this workout, you will burn 100 cal;
40 jumping jacks
30 crunches
20 squats
10 push-ups
Now is this fact or fiction?
What are your thoughts?
Do you know of any quick workouts to get that 100 cal out of the way?

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  • BanesLittleBrother
    BanesLittleBrother Posts: 1 Member
    If MFP thinks I burn about that many calories just walking around (via my iPhone steps), I'd buy the idea.
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    What is that 5-10 minutes of working out at the most? No way would I log 100 calories for that.
  • jessef593
    jessef593 Posts: 2,272 Member
    Why not just skip rope at a decent intensity for 10 minutes and burn 140 calories?
  • Azdak
    Azdak Posts: 8,281 Member
    paytonchristine00 wrote: »
    So there is a workout swimming around the internet that states if you do this workout, you will burn 100 cal;
    40 jumping jacks
    30 crunches
    20 squats
    10 push-ups
    Now is this fact or fiction?
    What are your thoughts?
    Do you know of any quick workouts to get that 100 cal out of the way?

    It's fiction. The only movement that elicits any real calorie burn is the jumping jacks and you do that for less than a minute. The other movements would only average about 5 Cals/min

    As the other guy said, the quickest workout would be something like jumping rope for 10 min or trying to run 1.5 miles.
  • jemhh
    jemhh Posts: 14,261 Member
    If you did several rounds of that you could burn 100 calories. But not with one round.
  • Brookieb1326
    Brookieb1326 Posts: 41 Member
    It honestly depends on the body of the person doing it. I have clients who could easily burn 100 calories doing that due to their higher weight.
  • DancingMoosie
    DancingMoosie Posts: 8,619 Member
    Run a mile...
  • paytonchristine00
    paytonchristine00 Posts: 9 Member
    Azdak wrote: »
    paytonchristine00 wrote: »
    So there is a workout swimming around the internet that states if you do this workout, you will burn 100 cal;
    40 jumping jacks
    30 crunches
    20 squats
    10 push-ups
    Now is this fact or fiction?
    What are your thoughts?
    Do you know of any quick workouts to get that 100 cal out of the way?

    It's fiction. The only movement that elicits any real calorie burn is the jumping jacks and you do that for less than a minute. The other movements would only average about 5 Cals/min

    As the other guy said, the quickest workout would be something like jumping rope for 10 min or trying to run 1.5 miles.

    That's what I thought. This little post has been going around tho. I was just curious.
  • paytonchristine00
    paytonchristine00 Posts: 9 Member
    Brookieb1326 wrote: »
    It honestly depends on the body of the person doing it. I have clients who could easily burn 100 calories doing that due to their higher weight.

    That's what I was thinking might be it, as well
  • paytonchristine00
    paytonchristine00 Posts: 9 Member
    I was just curious. Because I know the popular belief is one jumping jack is one calorie, I think that's where the person who made it got their info from.
    I don't believe it, I was just wondering what others would think, as well.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    Sounds like a Pinterest fail :D
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