Judo / karate: 10 kcal
per kg per hour
Road bikes (25-30 km /
h): 12 kcal per kg per hour
Skating: 7 kcal per kg
per hour
Spinning: 9 kcal per
kg per hour
Squash: 12 kcal per kg
per hour
Table tennis: 4 kcal
per kg per hour
Tennis: 7 kcal per kg
per hour
Jumping rope: 8 kcal
per kg per hour
Football: 7 kcal per
kg per hour
Volleyball: 3 kcal per
kg per hour
Walking (5 km / h):
3.5 kcal per kg per hour
Swimming: 6 kcal per
kg per hour
So imagine, you weigh
65 kilograms and your ride. This burn than about 4 calories per kilogram per
hour x 65 = 260 calories per hour. Even if you sit on the bench your body
consumes calories: your body constantly need energy to function. What emerges
for everyone: The more muscle you have, the higher your burning - even if you
do nothing.
Strength training thus
helps to control your weight. If you are doing regular strengthening exercises,
you will not develop a really thick muscles, but it gets your metabolism a
boost. You can of course use the machines in the gym for such training
(question whether one of the people in the gym you there the first time at will
guide), you can buy your own weights and go home get to work and you can take
lessons to follow as body pump. These are group classes
with toning exercises.
Do you really not like
sports at all? Also with all kinds of daily activities burn calories. And you
can jack up a little bit, take the stairs instead of the elevator for example.
With 12 minutes climbing stairs because you use easy hundred calories. Those
hundred calories you can burn by 25 minutes of ironing or washing up, 20
minutes to make beds, dust vacuuming or mopping the floor or 40 minutes to
cook. Also, gardening, car washing and dyeing are good
workouts.