Most Efficient Exercices?

efficient? As in most cals burned per minute?

No idea, especially considering all the variables. If I had to guess, I'd say something like sled pulls. Of more traditional exercises, maybe swim intervals?

The best exercise is one you're going to stick with, of course. What might be most efficient may not be much fun. :-D

Anything that uses your whole body is going to burn more calories than something that uses only part of it. For example, running burns lots of calories but how much depends on factors including your mass, speed and form. High Intensity Interval Training is also great for burning calories quickly and from what I've read it sounds like the increased calorie burn extends beyond the actual exercise time, too.

I feel like this is hard to answer because something might burn a lot of calories but you might only do it for a short period of time because it is so intensive. Running a 5 minute mile would burn more calories per minute than a 10 minute mile but it only takes half as long so the final burn for both miles could be close to equal.

I love the Leslie Sansone walking DVD's I have been doing since 1/1/15. I can see a big difference in the way my clothes fit. Low impact but, a great workout. I add 3 lbs weights to each workout to add some extra cal burn.

I've come to see "efficient" as having two (albeit functionally related) meanings, in this context.

1) a calories/minute 'burn' rate
2) a total body 'impact' aspect

For me -- and we all have different preferences, tendencies, etc., when it comes to exercise (let alone, different bodies, and potential physical, medical condition, and/or endocrinological or physiological realities to accommodate, contend with, or otherwise 'factor in') -- I seem to prefer a kind of 'best of both worlds' aspect, when it comes to exercise... I like to do things which combine cardio and strength... and the more 'full body' -like any given activity's involvement/impact/effect, the better.

And to boot, those activities which happen to be a part of 'things which have to get done anyway', are a kind of functional set of actions which comprise a form of 'stealth' exercise for me (or so I like to think ).

Regardless, if one does certain things long enough (as in, frequently or consistently enough, let alone when considering it from an ongoing endurance perspective), the body becomes more efficient 'at' it (and in a number of ways, including many physiological and neuromuscular aspects), and the associated calorie burn rate can decrease, in conjunction with such, but that doesn't mean that the exercise is not of benefit (of course).


As it turns out to be, for me, the most efficient total body, calories burned per minute, strength + cardio 'exercise'/'workout' that I've yet engaged in, happens to be the shoveling of a huge amount of ice-addled, very wet (and *heavy*) snow, after a blizzard -- which involves arms, shoulders, back, legs, lifting, pushing, twisting, 'chopping', ongoing work that is total body, core- and cardio-intense -- and it's an activity I don't truly have any say in determining the 'timing' or frequency of, given that I don't have control of the weather, nor do I have a snow(-manufacturing) machine (nor would I *want* to engage in that as a regular workout activity -- I need some sun, warmth, Spring, and Summer!)...

...as SueInAz conveyed --

SueInAz wrote: »

The best exercise is one you're going to stick with, of course. What might be most efficient may not be much fun. :-D

Run fast for an extended period of time
(like 7min/mile for 10 miles?)

oklm_magl wrote: »

What are the most efficient exercices you know?

The ones that people will actually do. A Muay Thai push up is awesome. But if one can't do it, it's pretty inefficient.

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ninerbuff wrote: »

jemhh wrote: »

This is making me think of that 4 minute ROM machine that is advertised in the back of Popular Mechanics.

Which is basically a Tabata protocol exercise regimen. The idea is to go all out for the 4 minutes. And it does work. But I'm not paying no $5,000 for a machine.

While, technically, any kind of exercise will do *something*, what the ad for this machine claims those 4 minutes will do -- and are 'equivalent' to -- is ridiculous. Also, the last I knew, the price tag was over $15,000 (which is crazy!).

RKC planks.

oklm_magl wrote: »

What are the most efficient exercices you know?

The exercises you actually do.

And, believe it or not, motocross. Motocross athletes have the lowest body fat percentage of all. It comes from constantly fighting, flying and repeatedly landing such a machine with a high powered engine.

one word.. Burpees

I love this answer!

qn4bx9pzg8aifd wrote:

for me, the most efficient total body, calories burned per minute, strength + cardio 'exercise'/'workout' that I've yet engaged in, happens to be the shoveling of a huge amount of ice-addled, very wet (and *heavy*) snow, after a blizzard - which involves arms, shoulders, back, legs, lifting, pushing, twisting, 'chopping', ongoing work that is total body, core- and cardio-intense - and it's an activity I don't truly have any say in determining the 'timing' or frequency of, given that I don't have control of the weather, nor do I have a snow(-manufacturing) machine (nor would I *want* to engage in that as a regular workout activity - I need some sun, warmth, Spring, and Summer!).

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