Subscribe10 Ways to Burn Calories Without Noticing
If you can burn an extra three hundred calories, six days a week, that's enough to lose an extra twenty five pounds in a year. There are lots of ways to sneak in exercise without it taking any extra time out of your day.
Just find three of these ten suggestions to fit in each day, Monday-Saturday:
- Roll up your sleeves and spring-clean a room for twenty minutes
- Do an extra ten minutes on the cross-trainer or the rowing machine at the gym.
- Stroll to the local shop (fifteen minutes there and back) instead of driving.
- Each time the ad breaks come on, do a three-minute exercise blast: crunches, press-ups, jogging on the spot.
- If you work in a desk job all day, take a five minute break every hour to stretch and walk around the room.
- At work, walk to colleagues' offices and chat face-to-face, rather than emailing.
- At the supermarket, park at the far side of the car park. Use a basket, not a trolley - it helps tone your arms.
- Each time you're waiting for the kettle to boil (two minutes) do stretches and squats. While dinner is cooking, run up and down the stairs ten times.
- When waiting for a train twice a day, walk around the station for ten-fifteen minutes.
- At the weekend, spend ten minutes shooting baskets, and fifteen minutes playing Frisbee.
NB: Figures based on a 155lb woman.
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More like this in Exercise · Mar 17, 2008
Such good advice! I'm lucky in that I can walk to the grocery instead of having to take the car. Also within (lengthy) walking distance are the post office, and the drug store.
ReplyI'm not sure how an "additional 10minutes on a cross trainer/rowing machines" qualifies as a way to burn calories without noticing....pretty sure I would notice.
Although more walking and less driving is good idea. Heck just walk up and down stairs in the house several times a day. Active lifestyles (whether sport or play) are the main thing in common you see with most healthy people...as they enjoy what they do (so hence they will do it more often).
Can also add, eat more whole food proteins...as digestion takes energy...and whole food proteins (not shakes or bars) take hours and hours to fully digest.
ReplyI guess my definition of "not noticing" must have become a bit woolly there ... ;-) What I was thinking was that an extra 10 mins in the gym doesn't use up much of your day.
Interesting thought about the whole food proteins; thanks!
Ali
ReplyYou can replace it with "Let your dog out of the yard"...as everytime mine gets loose I do alot of running around the neighborhood trying to get her back!
Reply"Volunteer to baby sit a 5-year-old" works too. You'll be running nonstop.
ReplyGreat tips! What jumps out at me is these suggestions reflect taking a lifestyle approach to exercise - meaning you integrate activity into the daily grind rather than relegate it to 1 hour blocks.
ReplyWhat a good idea , just yesterday I rearranged the kitchen ,moved fridge sideboard and cupboards What a workout that was.
ReplyYeah, most of those I agree with except adding 10 minutes onto my workout. I'd definitely notice THAT. I will say that I get a pretty good workout from cleaning. I cleaned my house today for a good hour and pushing a heavy vacuum around and running up and down the stairs putting stuff away is definitely a pretty good workout.
I'd do the stairs thing while supper's cooking, but I think my husband might think I was sorta nuts.
ReplyI think its basically just "get up and move". Of course we will notice while we're doing it, but will you be thinking about it later on, probably not.
ReplyJust get up and do something is right. Yesterday I went out and washed the truck...not only was it nice out but the truck got nice and clean and I got a great workout.
ReplyGreat post! I'd like to add ...
Taking your kids to the park and playing with them - or even just playing with them outside.
And that it's important to get up and walk or stretch if your at a desk job. You'd be surprised of the complications that could arise by sitting there staring at the computer for 4 or more hours straight.
ReplyI hate to be a wet blanket, but...
Losing 25 pounds in a year this way is theoretical. I suspect that, in reality, most people would unknowingly (insidiously?) increase their caloric intake, exactly counteracting the calories they burned. So, no net weight loss.
There is a reason most successful weight-loss diets find some way to decrease caloric intake.
But most people would benefit in other ways from the extra exercise they would get by following these tips.
-Steve
ReplyYeah those are all really good ideas. I like the whole 'run up and down the stairs' a few time while you are waiting for your food to heat up. Also, playing hoops for 15 or 30 minutes is a great way to burn kcals.
ReplyAbout #6
Please don't be one of those people that calls, emails and THEN walks over to a person's desk right after each other.
It is so annoying.
ReplyLOL, I just saw the tip on there about using a basket at the supermarket instead of a cart. I almost ALWAYS use a basket because I hate pushing the cart around, so if I'm only getting a few items, I'll grab a basket. Unfortunately, sometimes I miscalculate how much stuff I need and I end up with a 50 lb basket that I'm lugging around the store.
Replylol.. I can relate - a couple of 4L jugs of milk and some laundry detergent later and I'm cursing myself for spending my "shopping cart" dollar on coffee. Hahaha...
Nowadays, unless the baskets have holes for my kids' feet, they are no good to me!
Replyvery good advices but no time :-(
ReplyYou had time to post here...
ReplyGotta love the people who have "no time"
But they never miss their favorite shows every night for 2-3 hours.
Prioritize!
ReplyIt definitely can seem to someone that they have no time, though it is priorities in the end.
I make time for exercise because it's important to me. I would do less social stuff than most people in their late teens/early twenties because I had to work full time, go to school, and exercise. Fact is, everyone has time to do something. I figure if I could maintain 7-10 hours a week while working 48-60 hours a week, going to school 12 credit hours, and maintaining a household, that anyone can get at least 3 hours a week in for a full exercise program, cardio and weights. (Not that I want to do that again! I made life changes so I didn't have to keep up that pace... Including taking a drastic pay cut to change jobs.)
Though, of course, it's individual choice. If someone else has different priorities, that's their prerogative as long as they recognize it comes down to choice. Some would view my decision to live on less money as a poor choice, but it's mine-- an the decision whether to fit in exercise or not, it's theirs-- neither better or worse, just different.
ReplyYeah, I never have time for anything. I have to MAKE time for a lot of things that I want to do or need to do. It's all about priorities, for sure. I get up super early to work out before going to work and then I do the rest of my workout after work. I also do the laundry, cook dinner, walk my dog, and all that jazz. Sure I give up some TV time, but I don't really miss it.
If anyone needs another reason to work out...get a dog!! The more hyper, the better. You will have to walk him and that'll give you both some much needed exercise. I walk my dog every day or else I suffer the consequences of cleaning up after her.
ReplyBuy a stationary bike or elliptical and exercise in front of the tv. Beats doing nothing.
ReplyLove this article because it supports what I say on my website about the myth that the only exercise that counts is aerobic exercise...
And here are a few more suggestions:
Researchers at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, found that participants in their study used up 20% more calories than those who didn't laugh.
Researchers then calculated the calories burnt if someone laughed for 10 to 15 minutes a day. A person could burn up to 50 calories depending on their body size and the intensity of the laughter. So, if you laugh for 10-15 minutes a day, you’d use enough calories to lose 4.4 pounds (2 kg) a year.
Doing your housework? Why not dance with your broom, include a few extra bends and piroutte with your feather duster.
In short - I like to think of exercise as 'body-fun' or 'body-play' because then it's fun and easy to do and it starts feeling like a 'wanna' instead of a 'hafta'.
ReplyRegards Cari
I like these ideas. Almost too simple. I just thought I would add some things I do. When I blow-dry my hair in the morn I try to do some leg streching and squats, no weights but it wakes me up and I know ill be sitting at a desk all day. I also have just quit smoking so I dont leave the office for those smoke breaks anymore. Now I try to do butt clenches (when no one is watching) and Ill get up to water the plants alot more. The plus side is my plants have really grown over the past few weeks. I think its important to break up the desk/computer 7hr strech. I tend to get very tense and tired just from doing nothing.
I live in a very small town and the gym here is gross and all but non-existent. I will not go. I just feel dirty. So I have to make my own rutines and get very creative. I am not ready to spend tons of money on home equipment.
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ReplyI feel this would be more intelligible as a series of many haiku.
ReplyThank you Linds, I thought it was just me.
ReplySo many words, and yet they make no sense.
ReplyI this "weight loss" has a future in the academic community :-)
ReplyLOL too quick a trigger, or perhaps my "academia," but make that word "THINK."
ReplyTry waterwalking! 30 minutes of waterwalking is the equivalent of 2 hours of walking on land as far as burning calories and burning fat. --Louis
ReplyI think those are great tips. I personally enjoy talking the stairs when I either am faced with an elevator, escalator. Overtime that definitely adds up.
ReplyUnless you have a genetic disposition obesity is the result of poor diet and lack of exercise. FAD diets is proof of our laziness and lack of discipline. Over eating is as bad and dangerous as smoking, alcohol and other substance abuse. Unless we break your bad habits we are committing suicide by food and couch!
ReplyI found a great blog article describing how to figure out how many calories you need to burn to lose the amount of weight you want to. http://weightcontrolinfo.com/2008/06/23/get-great-weight-loss-learn-how-many-calories-to-burn-to-lose-weight/
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