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What activities burn the most calories?
Carlos0690
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What do you think is the most efficient way of burning calories , it could be a sport , a type of exercise or an everyday activity . I find that simply walking the dog at a brisk pace burns plenty of calories as part of a daily routine .
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I'm not an expert but I believe it has to do with your heart rate, but I do know that doing non stop movement with a 1-2 minute break works that best for example (crossfit, insanity, etc.) Of course your free to search on your own, hope this helped!1
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Lifting. I love it, and I burn a ton of calories.
Other than that - climbing the stairs burns a lot of calories.2 -
Whatever you enjoy and will be consistent with. For me, it's rowing, biking, and running. In that order.2
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What burns the most calories in the least amount of time for me appears to be something like ...
Climbing stairs
Running
Cycling
Rowing
Walking
What I find most enjoyable, however, are those things in a different order.
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jagodfrey08 wrote: »Lifting. I love it, and I burn a ton of calories.
Other than that - climbing the stairs burns a lot of calories.
Lifting actually doesn't burn that much compared to cardio2 -
Lifting burns more over time. Cardio burns more while you're doing cardio.5
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Jumping rope4
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Stairs.1
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Snow shoveling!2
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jagodfrey08 wrote: »Lifting burns more over time. Cardio burns more while you're doing cardio.
How?
While not technically false, it is waaaay over exaggerated at the gym. It is true more muscle means more calories burned, but it is so little that it makes little difference. Replace a pound of fat with a pound of muscle and you gain a few hundred calories per year.
Running burns about 100 calories per mile (estimate - your results will vary). I have to add that exercising to create a calorie deficit is not sustainable. You have to fix your diet so when you cannot exercise you will still lose/maintain the weight you want.1 -
Stairs and step aerobics.1
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Running and lifting. Running made me drop weights fast and lifting gives me more muscle definition while making me look leaner than when I just ran, but I suppose its whatever your body responds to. Brisk walking/swimming or dancing can achieve fast results too!3
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Anything cardio that makes the heart rate shoot up will burn the most.
I like to circuit train with;
Jumping jacks
Jump squats
Jump rope
Kettle bell
In fact, I did just 30 mins of this today with a HIIT timer and burnt 554 calories.2 -
A read a few years ago, NASA actually did a study into this. It turned out the trampoline was the best form of burning energy3
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Breastfeeding3
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ukpizzalover wrote: »A read a few years ago, NASA actually did a study into this. It turned out the trampoline was the best form of burning energy
In space or here?
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CindyFooWho wrote: »ukpizzalover wrote: »A read a few years ago, NASA actually did a study into this. It turned out the trampoline was the best form of burning energy
In space or here?
Depends how high you jump I would think 2 -
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I do a combination of HIIT workouts, Tabata and lifting. Also do Pilates for core stability and swimming for a full body workout. All exercise is good exercise - it depends what you enjoy and whether or not you stick to it. Paired with a good diet, you can't fall far wrong 2
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hbunting86 wrote: »I do a combination of HIIT workouts, Tabata and lifting. Also do Pilates for core stability and swimming for a full body workout. All exercise is good exercise - it depends what you enjoy and whether or not you stick to it. Paired with a good diet, you can't fall far wrong
This is what I do too with the exception of pilates. Good to see another UK person here 0 -
Not really. Anaerobic exercise burns about half the calories that an aerobic exercise does for the same intensity.jagodfrey08 wrote: »Lifting. I love it, and I burn a ton of calories.
Other than that - climbing the stairs burns a lot of calories.
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EPOC is HIGHLY exaggerated. This is a myth that's been pushed around for decades. Search Azdak's thread on this.jagodfrey08 wrote: »Lifting burns more over time. Cardio burns more while you're doing cardio.
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Human bodies burn calories during the day and night with or without exercising as long as we're alive. That's called a passive calorie burning.The weight lifting uses all your muscles and it increases your passive calorie burning rate. Which means your body is burning more fat after you're done working out. So I would say, weight lifting is crucial to burning calories.3
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Because it's relative to someone's fitness level, just about any aerobic exercise done to threshold will burn a lot of calories for that person. Fitter people will burn more because of speed and endurance over someone else doing the same workout who isn't fit.
The key here is doing exercises that you can do. Swimming laps at a good speed burns a lot of calories, but if you can't swim, it's useless.
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CX skate has to be the king of the hill when it comes to calorie burning. You are engaging your core with a good double pole technique and all of your legs with the skate. If you look at some of the athletes with the highest VO2 maxes in the world a number of them are CX skiers. I can send my heart rate through the roof with very little effort.2
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Swimming is a fantastic calorie burn for me.
Realistically though. The best exercises are the ones you enjoy and will stick to. It's all fine and dandy to say running, swimming, hiit etc is best but if you hate it (like I hate running), you just won't do it over the long term.1 -
Find yourself a boxing gym. Best hour of my week. Burn a ton of calories and release stress through punching stuff (or people, if that's your thing).1
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Nordic skiing.WhitneyDurham777 wrote: »CX skate has to be the king of the hill when it comes to calorie burning. You are engaging your core with a good double pole technique and all of your legs with the skate. If you look at some of the athletes with the highest VO2 maxes in the world a number of them are CX skiers. I can send my heart rate through the roof with very little effort.
I do classic, and it's a great day when I can keep up with the slowest skate skiers. I'm going to have to give it a try some time.2 -
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