Calculating Calories Burned in Exercise

Series Summary

Many people want to lose weight, and despite claims for quick fat burning pills and powders, the best way to lose weight is still through proper diet and exercise. Exercise does more than just maintain physical fitness though. Working out can also help build healthy bone density, muscle strength, and joint mobility. It can also reduce general health risks, boost the immune system, and help with depression and insomnia. Whether your reason for exercising is to lose weight, or improve muscle mass, working out is always a good idea to help promote health in the body and mind. In this free video series, a certified fitness trainer will demonstrate how to burn calories with the most effective exercises. Learn to calculate the calories burned in exercise, and tips for everyday exercises for burning calories. Get instructions and tips for burning calories during cycling, jogging and spinning. Learn to count calories and burn fat. Burning calories takes hard work and determination but with the right attitude and knowledge anything is achievable!

Video Transcript

"Hi good afternoon my name is Michael Quebec and the subject of this particular segment is how to calculate calories burned in exercise. Real briefly, calculating calories burned in exercise is predicated upon several factors. First is your weight and the second is the type of exercise or type of activity. So, I'm going to use myself as an example because I know me. I'm a hundred and fifty pounds. So for a person who is a hundred and fifty pounds, weight training burns about five point nine calories a minute. For somebody who is a hundred and fifty pounds at the other extreme expenditure karate, or standard martial arts burns twelve point eight calories a minute. So calculating your expenditure means calculating that twelve point eight for karate for me a hundred and fifty pounds, times how ever amount of time used up to exercise or five point nine for weight training by the amount of time I've used. So for instance for weight training I'm going to get a weight right here. Alright so I'm going to do some bicep curls with this, with this bar as an example. Again at a hundred and fifty pounds, just my current weight or my target weight, free weight exercises burn about five point nine calories a minute. So you'll notice that I hit my timer in my stop watch and I'm doing some bicep curls. Let's just say for the sake of argument I've done all my reps for bicep curls. So I hit my stop watch and for the sake of argument I've done five minutes. Five times five point nine calories is forty five, twenty nine point five calories burned doing these bicep curls. Alright now at the other extreme end of calorie burning, high impact aerobic, martial arts, any kind of stand up martial arts, jumping rope things of that nature. Those burn between ten point five and twelve point eight calories a minute for somebody of my weight. So let’s say I really wanted to burn a hundred calories and I've got an aerobic kick boxing tape on. Alright so let’s more or less about ten point five a minute so I've got my timer on and I'm watching the tape, you know seeing what they are doing, seeing how they are doing that ok. Ok there it is and there alright, after I'm done with that, I hit my stop watch again and let’s say for the sake of argument that was thirty minutes. I've done that aerobic kick boxing video tape. Thirty minutes, ten point five calories burned more or less I think it's about three hundred and fifteen calories burned in a, in thirty minutes. So that's basically an idea on how to calculate your calories to repeat, your weight, the type of activity, and the amount of time expended. All three factors figure in on how to calculate your calories burned during exercise."