Physical Activity:The burning up of calories is directly proportional to the contraction and relaxation of the muscles and active use of muscular system. The energy for the muscular activity can be obtained either from free glucose in the blood, or from the stored fat around the respective muscles.
You will protect your heart if you do a moderate level of physical activity throughout your life because, regular exercise helps you keep your body healthy. This is also the secret for permanent weight loss.
The number of calories that you can burn during an activity depends upon age, body structure, heredity and lifestyle. The following table shows the amount of calories burnt for a particular activity for most people.
How To Burn Calories in a Blueberry Muffin?
If you are a 7okg , 30 year old woman and you eat a Burberry muffin which contains 360 calories, then do you know how much exercise you have to do tom burn this much calories. See below:
Fast skating: 21 min, Jogging: 21 min, Gardening: 66 min, Lawn mowing: 66 min, Clycing (easy pace): 77 min, vacuuming: 92 min, weight lifting: 115 min, Lawn dry folding 230 min.
So the next time when you eat a muffin, be prepared to do enough exercise.
| Physical Activity | Calories Burnt (in 1/2 hr) |
| Aerobics exercise | 178 |
| Basketball | 258 |
| Badminton | 125 |
| Bowling | 108 |
| Brisk walking | 150 |
| Cycling | 150 |
| Dancing | 130 |
| Driving car | 50 |
| Fishing | 114 |
| Gardening | 150-200 |
| Golf | 108 |
| Hockey | 249 |
| Horse riding | 255 |
| House work | 75-125 |
| Ice skating | 315 |
| Jogging | 300-450 |
| Judo | 363 |
| Kissing (Lips locking)* | 6.4 cal per minute |
| Lawn Mowing- Power | 125 |
| Lawn Mowing- Push | 150-200 |
| Mountain climbing | 270 |
| Rowing | 378 |
| Roller skating | 315 |
| Running | 325 |
| Sitting at the desk | 50 |
| Skiing | 252 |
| Squash | 325 |
| Stairs- Downstairs | 210 |
| Stairs- Upstairs | 300-500 |
| Swimming | 250 |
| Tennis | 261 |
| Volley ball | 93 |
| Watching TV | 50 |
| Walking- strolling level surface 1-2 mph | 60-75 |
| Walking- leisurely Level surface 3 mph | 150 |
| Walking- brisk Level surface 3.5 mph | 180 |
| Walking- fast Level surface 4.5 mph | 200-240 |
* Kissing your partner passionately for a minute will burn 6.4 calories. So 10 times kissing in day will burn 64 calories and approximately 23,000 calories in a year (Times of India 29 March 2009)!
How much heat affects the burning of calories when exercising. Am I burning many more calories when I am jogging in the middle of summer as oppose to when I run indoors during the winter.
The question is asked by Quinn (IP 64.110.240.81) from Canada
When you exercise, muscles are heated and more than 75 percent of the energy produced is lost as heat. The heart pumps hot blood from the muscles to the skin to dissipate the heat energy by evaporation. The heart has also to pump extra blood to supply oxygen to the muscles. These actions result in burning of calories. On the other hand, when you exercise in cold weather, the calories burned are comparatively less because the heart, in this case, has only to provide oxygen to the muscles.
Warning: You should keep in mind that during exercise, if your body temperature rises too high, you can develop heat stroke. At body temperature above 102 deg F (39 C), the muscles start to burn. At temperature above 105 deg F (41 C), conditions such as headache, blurred vision, ringing in your ears, dizziness, nausea may develop. To prevent ithis to happen, you should drink lots of water during and after exercise.
