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Elliptical vs. Treadmill: Which is Best?
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Real Calories Burned: Elliptical vs. Treadmill
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Calculating Your Calories Burned For Weight Loss
Your body burns calories all day long, even when you are sleeping (or watching tv). But if you want to lose weight, you will need to add some exercise to your daily routine because you need to burn off an extra 3,500 calories for every pound you want to lose. That may seem like a difficult task. But don’t get discouraged. Find an activity you like and just get started. If you burn 250 – 500 extra calories per day, you’ll lose one pound every 1 -2 weeks. It won’t take you long to make see some meaningful results! Not sure how to get started? See our article on The Best Exercise To Lose Weight. You’ll be surprised.What Activities Burn the Most Calories
In a hurry to lose weight? You may want to know which activities burn the most calories. That would be running a sub-five minute mile. If you weigh 140 pounds, running 4.3 minutes per mile for an hour will burn about 1460 calories. Next on the list is chopping wood at 51 blows per minute. That will burn over 1100 calories. Do you like cycling? Competitive mountain biking burns about 1000 calories per hour. Looking for something more realistic? Running up stairs burns about 950 calories per hour. Aggressive cross country skiing (5 – 8 mile per hour) will burn almost 800 calories per hour. Jumping rope or running 7 minute miles gets you about 780 calories per hour. Running 8 minute miles? That’s about 730 calories an hour.Where is the Actual Calories Burned Calculator?
We had to take our calories burned calculator offline for some maintenance. It calculates your exact calories burned for over 800 activities based on your specific gender, weight, height, and age. We have highlighted the most popular and interesting activities in the articles above. Are you eager to see the full calculator return? If so, leave a comment below and let us know so we can speed up our work fixing it. The squeaky wheel gets the grease