Not all exercise is created equal: the best activities for calorie-burning are aerobic and sustained.
Go on a run. Keep up an 8.5 mile per hour pace and you’ll burn over 800 calories per hour.
Ride a bike, stationary or road. It’s relaxing and burns 1,126 calories if you keep up a 20 miles per hour pace.
Dive in and swim a few laps. It’s a little less precise, but keep up a moderate pace and you’ll drop around 700 calories.
Boxing is a great way to relieve stress and practice self-defense. It’ll also melt 800 calories.
If you’re the white-collar type, a game of racquetball will give you the chance to burn 700 calories and make Sampson from Accounting look like a fool.
Row a boat, or a stationary machine if you don’t have one: 600 calories and you get to sit the whole time.
Jump rope. Sure, it can get a little boring, but 844 calories an hour is no joke, and besides running, it’s the cheapest activity possible.
Lastly, sexual intercourse burns up to 300 calories per hour. That’s right: jumping rope is nearly three times better than sex.
Fact:
A calorie is defined as the amount of energy needed to increase the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius.
