How to Burn 500 Calories

Video Transcript

"My name is Michael Quebec and today's subject is how to burn five hundred calories. Before we get into how to burn five hundred calories, we should put into context just exactly what five hundred calories is in everyday terms. Of course as you know, calories are units of energy. Five hundred calories taken in well for instance your average milkshake at Denny's is about five hundred and ninety calories. Kentucky fried chicken, drumstick extra crispy, between one hundred and sixty and one hundred and seventy calories so three of those. Keeping in mind how easy it is to acquire five hundred calories just from our everyday fast food. Lets breakdown some activities that can burn five hundred calories. These are for, if you are more or less within an average weight, about a hundred and fifty pounds. And if you weigh more then the caloric burn is more which means the amount of time put in is less. If you weigh less, the caloric burn is less which means you have to exercise a little more. Those exercise activities would be things like basketball, about forty five minutes to an hour. Aerobic dance an hour of that, forty five minutes. Aerobic kick boxing and even if you are not doing the class you just doing your average aerobic kick boxing DVD, about forty five minutes to an hour will burn actually even more then five hundred calories. A rowing machine at your gym, if your gym has a rowing machine. Doing that for an hour would burn up to seven hundred calories or more. Swimming, active you know very active swimming like doing laps in swimming. That would burn over six hundred. Jumping rope for an hour burns over six hundred calories. So those very high impact, very active endeavors such as martial arts, aerobics, swimming. Very fast active dancing, those are ways of burning off five hundred calories or more, more or less within an hour."