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What activities burn the most calories?

Posts: 417 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
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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  • Posts: 1 Member
    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!
  • Posts: 425 Member
    Lifting. I love it, and I burn a ton of calories.

    Other than that - climbing the stairs burns a lot of calories.
  • Posts: 1,669 Member
    Whatever you enjoy and will be consistent with. For me, it's rowing, biking, and running. In that order.
  • Posts: 25,926 Member
    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. :)
  • Posts: 17,562 Member
    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 cardio
  • Posts: 383 Member
    Jumping rope
  • Posts: 26,368 Member
    Stairs.
  • Posts: 3,099 Member
    edited January 2017
    Snow shoveling!
  • Posts: 2,445 Member
    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.
  • Posts: 569 Member
    Stairs and step aerobics.
  • Posts: 45 Member
    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!
  • Posts: 255 Member
    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.
  • Posts: 255 Member
    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
  • Posts: 9,812 Member
    Breastfeeding
  • Posts: 179 Member
    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? ;)
  • Posts: 255 Member

    In space or here? ;)

    Depends how high you jump I would think :)
  • Posts: 255 Member
    sardelsa wrote: »
    Breastfeeding

    Rules me out then :)
  • Posts: 952 Member
    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 :)
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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 :)
  • Posts: 49,126 Member
    Lifting. I love it, and I burn a ton of calories.

    Other than that - climbing the stairs burns a lot of calories.
    Not really. Anaerobic exercise burns about half the calories that an aerobic exercise does for the same intensity.

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  • Posts: 49,126 Member
    Lifting burns more over time. Cardio burns more while you're doing cardio.
    EPOC is HIGHLY exaggerated. This is a myth that's been pushed around for decades. Search Azdak's thread on this.

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  • Posts: 320 Member
    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.
  • Posts: 49,126 Member
    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.
  • Posts: 158 Member
    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.
  • Posts: 1 Member
    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).
  • Posts: 10,968 Member
    Nordic skiing.
    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.
  • Posts: 255 Member
    Laff923 wrote: »
    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).

    So true

    Never appreciated just how exhausting boxing is
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