Calories And Exercise - How Many Calories You Burn During Exercise?

I'm sure you've heard or read much of them. You're even anxious to know how many calories you can burn doing a particular exercise.

So much fuss. Have you ever wondered why there are so many myths about "calories", especially?

To be precise, what do you know about calories??

How do you figure out how many calories you burn during exercise?

I think these are some of the "unsure areas" you want to clear about.

Let's tackle the first one first.

This depends on a number of factors:

• Your weight

Pssst........

If you weigh 170 lb., you'll burn more calories doing the same exercise than a person who weighs 100 lb.

That simple.

• The exercise you're doing

Are you jogging? Running? Walking? Swimming? Aerobic Dancing? Step aerobic? Kickboxing?

Or even adventurous enough for water aerobics?

Each exercise burns different amount of calories.

See the calorie chart below.

• The intensity level of your exercise

If you exercise at a higher intensity level, you'll be working harder, expending more energy and burning more calories than someone who's not working as hard.

Running is a high intensity level exercise, so it'll result in more calories being burned than lower intensity exercise like walking.

But if you race walk, you'll be able to burn more calories too.

Of course, this does not mean that everyone should take up higher intensity exercises. You must still consider your age, fitness level and medical history.

• The amount of muscle you have

This is because muscle is metabolically active - more muscle means more calories being burned. This explains why toning exercise is such a good calorie-burning exercise.

We're done with the 2 most important areas regarding calories and exercise.

I'll now show you how calories are calculated.

Once the intensity level of your exercise is established, it's simple to calculate your calorie expenditure (based on any of your given weight).

Standard formulas have been developed to calculate intensities for exercises such as running, walking, cycling, etc.

These formulas are programed into the displays of exercise equipment that give calorie readouts.

But remember, any calorie reading from a machine is an estimate, especially if you're not asked to give your weight before you start your exercise.

If you don't give your weight, the displayed calories burned is calculated using a set weight.

For convenience, you could use a calorie calculator.

If you're on a weight loss program, yes.

Let's say you want to shed off 1 lb of fat in a week, then your goal is to burn 3,500 calories in that week, with the help of a combination of exercise and healthy diet.

P/S: 1 lb of fat = 3,500 calories

So in a week, you burn off 500 calories per day x 7 =3,500 calories.

Let's say you aim for longevity, then studies on mortality indicate that a weekly caloric expenditure of 1,500-2,000 calories is best for this purpose.

You should also aim to burn 300-500 calories per exercise workout.

Below is a chart showing you how many calories are burned during exercise by specific activity, for some of the popular exercises.

Note: The calories are counted on per hour basis

Vow, Do you see?

The higher the intensity level of your exercise, the more calories you burn.

Remember.

Consider 1 pound of fat is the equivalent of 3,500 calories - you can see that it takes a lot of exercise to burn that one pound of fat or calories!

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