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HOW MANY CALORIES DOES EXERCISE & ACTIVITY BURN?
Activity & Exercise for Weight Loss Enhancement & a Stronger, Healthier Body
How many calories can activity and exercise burn? Let's use a 154-pound male as our example and base our calorie burn on the type of activity performed.
When viewing the amount of calories burned, it's important to keep in mind that a 154-pound male requires AND burns the following amount of calories even when zero activity is performed.
DAILY CALORIES REQUIRED PER ACTIVITY LEVEL FOR A 154-POUND MAN
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Required Calories - Inactive |
Calories Burned Per Hour |
Required Calories - Moderately Active |
Calories Burned Per Hour |
Required Calories - Active |
Calories Burned Per Hour |
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1,924 calories |
About 80 calories |
2,220 calories |
92.5 calories |
2,516 calories |
About 105 calories |
CALORIES BURNED PER ACTIVITY FOR A 154-POUND MAN
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Moderate physical activities: |
Calories Burned Per Hour |
Extras Calories Burned Per Hour |
Calories Burned Per 1/2 Hour |
Extra Calories Burned 1/2 Hour |
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Hiking |
370 calories |
290 calories |
185 calories |
145 calories |
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Light gardening OR light yard work |
330 calories |
250 calories |
165 calories |
125 calories |
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Dancing |
330 calories |
250 calories |
165 calories |
125 calories |
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Golf - walking and carrying clubs |
330 calories |
250 calories |
165 calories |
125 calories |
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Bicycling at less than 10 miles per hour |
290 calories |
210 calories |
145 calories |
105 calories |
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Walking at 3 ½ miles per hour |
280 calories |
200 calories |
140 calories |
100 calories |
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Weight training - general light workout |
220 calories |
160 calories |
110 calories |
80 calories |
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Stretching |
180 calories |
80 calories |
90 calories |
40 calories |
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Vigorous Physical Activities: |
Calories Burned Per Hour |
True Calorie Burn Per Hour |
Calories Burned Per 1/2 Hour |
True Calorie Burn Per 1/2 Hour |
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Running/jogging at 5 miles per hour |
590 calories |
510 calories |
295 calories |
255 calories |
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Bicycling at more than 10 miles per hour |
590 calories |
510 calories |
295 calories |
255 calories |
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Swimming - slow freestyle laps |
510 calories |
430 calories |
255 calories |
215 calories |
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Aerobics |
480 calories |
400 calories |
240 calories |
200 calories |
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Walking at 4 ½ miles per hour |
460 calories |
380 calories |
230 calories |
190 calories |
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Heavy yard work - chopping wood |
440 calories |
360 calories |
220 calories |
180 calories |
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Weight lifting - vigorous effort |
440 calories |
360 calories |
220 calories |
180 calories |
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Basketball - vigorously |
440 calories |
360 calories |
220 calories |
180 calories |
While exercise and activity are vital to total good health, the calories that we intake rather than expend impact weight more than any other element in the Diet Equation. For example, let's say that Dieter Vinny weighs 154 pounds. Today, Vinny enjoyed a healthy breakfast, a healthy dinner selection and two healthy fruits for snack time as well as healthy beverages throughout the day.
Because Vinny jogged for 1/2 an hour today, he decided to enjoy 'without guilt' his favorite Mexican meal at his favorite Mexican Restaurant. Let's see how things added up for Vinny - as well as see if his logic was smart or blind-sided by his miscalculation of calories burned for his activity.
For today's menu he enjoyed the following:
Breakfast - Boiled Egg, 1 kiwi, Whole Grain Toast, Pat of Butter, Spoon of Jam & Skim Milk for about 350 calories.
Lunch - Mexican Meal at his favorite restaurant containing 4 Beef & Cheese Enchiladas (400 calories each = 1,600 calories), Rice (200 calories), Beans & Cheese (250 calories) , Basket of Warm Tortilla Chips (450 calories), Salsa, 2 beers (300 calories) for about 2,800 total calories. My, those Mexican Meal calories sure add up quickly, don't they? Lucky for Vinny that he jogged today!
Dinner - Chef Salad with light dressing and Spring water for about 350 calories.
Snacks - 2 pieces of fruit for about 150 calories. He also enjoyed 250 calories worth of assorted healthy beverages throughout the day (100% juice and skim milk).
Total Calories for the day equals about 3,900 calories.
- Vinny burned 295 calories on his 1/2 hour jog.
- Vinny spent the remainder of the day in a very inactive state, sleeping, watching tv and talking on the telephone. Therefore, he burned about 1,880 calories which his body requires simply to support life (breathing, blinking, yawning, etc.).
Vinny burned a total of 2,175 calories. In order to maintain his 154-pound weight, his body requires no more than 2,516 calories when incorporating vigorous physical activity - which Vinny certainly did. The problem is that although Vinny busted wind jogging, it wasn't enough to compensate for his Mexican Fiesta Meal as his total daily calorie intake totaled 3,900 calories - 1,384 calories OVER the amount of calories (energy) that his body used. Those calories were stored in Vinny's fat cells.
Had Vinny's Mexican Meal been comprised of 2,800 calories originating from very healthy sources (fruits, vegetables, etc.) - then unfortunately, the excess calories (energy) would have also been stored in the fat cells.
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