Burned 800 calories with Jumping Jacks?
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katie_30
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I weigh 215lbs and apparently someone my size burns 4 calories a jumping jack. So I did 200 jumping jacks meaning I burned 800 calories? Sounds too good to be true. Can anyone verify?
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I weigh 215lbs and apparently someone my size burns 4 calories a jumping jack. So I did 200 jumping jacks meaning I burned 800 calories? Sounds too good to be true. Can anyone verify?
Heck if you did TABATA PROTOCOL (a very high intensity program of 4 minutes) you might burn 150 calories total. And that's GASPING for air after about 1 minute into it.
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That's outrageous! I would have to run about 2 hours straight to burn that many calories!!! (I guess I gotta start doing some jumping jacks.) But seriously, a single jumping jack is a very simple movement. It doesn't seem worthy of 4 calories...I think the trainer guy is right.0
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I will admit, jumping jacks and jump rope (something that I could do forever as a kid) bring on a burn that is crazy good. I like to do a combo set of jumping jacks, burpees, frog jumps, push UPS, crunches and jump rope in about a 15-20 minutes and that gets my heart rate going! I doubt even that is 800 though0
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