Calories Burned During Exercise

Calorie burning is a continuous process that takes place in our body. Our body gains the required energy for performing daily activities by burning calories. But many of us consume more calories than required by our body. Excessive calorie storage in the body leads to conversion of calories into fats, which is not good for health. Therefore, it is necessary that we burn those excess calories consumed. Exercise is one of the most beneficial methods to burn calories. The amount of calories burned during exercise is different for every exercise. Let us take a look at the number of calories burned by performing various exercises.

How Many Calories are Burned During Exercise

The amount of calories burned is governed by a number of factors that include, the weight of the person, the physical fitness level, metabolism, type of exercise, time of exercising, and the intensiveness of the exercise. Swimming, bicycling, walking, sports, jogging, etc., burn different amount of calories. The intensity level of the exercise plays an important role when you want to burn calories by exercising. An exercise can be performed with various intensity levels. Exercises performed at high intensity levels burn more calories as compared to low intensity level exercises, since the body works more harder. Overweight people burn more calories since the body requires more efforts to move the heavy body while exercising. Moreover, if you perform the exercises with fast movements, then you will burn more calories. If your lean mass is heavy, then you burn more calories even at rest. Thus, exercising is ruled by so many factors and the amount of calories you will burn by exercising completely depends upon the way you perform the exercise.

Calories Burned with Various Exercises

Jogging: Jogging is one of the most effective methods of burning calories. It is very simple and easy way of burning calories while exercising without using any special equipment. All you require is a pair of comfortable shoes, track suit and a perfect jogging track. The number of calories burned while jogging depends on your weight. On an average a person can burn 500 calories per hour if he/she jogs at a speed of 5mph.

Walking: Other than jogging, walking is also an easy exercise. But unlike jogging, walking exercise requires more time to show effective results. The calories burned while walking depend on the distance and the speed with which the distance is covered. You can burn almost 300 calories if you walk with a pace of 3 mph.

Aerobic Exercise: Aerobic exercises are some of the best exercises to burn calories. There are different forms of high and low impact aerobic exercises that include, water aerobics, dancing aerobics, general aerobics, etc. Step aerobics are common type of aerobic exercises and the calories burned depend on the height of the step and the stepping rate. The table given below gives calories burned for 10 minutes of different types of aerobic exercises.

Aerobic Exercise	Women (123 lb)	Men (170 lb)
Step aerobics, 4 inch	48	66
Step aerobics, 6 inch	58	80
Step aerobics, 8 inch	67	92
Step aerobics, 10 inch	75	104
Dance aerobics, high impact	94	124
Dance aerobics, low impact	80	105

Swimming: Swimming is one of the cardiovascular exercises that helps to burn calories easily. The distance covered while swimming, the speed, swimming style and body weight decide the number of calories burned while swimming. Breast stroke, back stroke, butterfly stroke, etc., are some of the different styles of swimming that burn different amount of calories. The table given below specifies the approximate amount of calories burned while swimming for 10 minutes.

Swimming Style	Women (123 lbs)	Men (170 lbs)
Breast stroke	91	125
Back stroke	95	130
Side stroke	68	90
Fast crawl	87	120

Bicycling: If you love to ride bicycle then bicycling makes a good calorie burner exercise for you. You can go for stationary or mobile bicycling. The speed of cycling and efforts required while cycling decide the calories burned during cycling. Take a look at the table given below to know the details of calories burned by bicycling for per hour.

Bicycling	130 lbs	155 lbs	190 lbs
Leisure, less than 10mph	236	281	345
Racing, greater than 20mph	944	1126	1380
Stationary, general	295	352	431
Stationary, vigorous effort	620	739	906

Exercise not only keeps you healthy and fit, but it keeps you fresh and active the whole day. So now that you are aware of the calories burned during exercise, chalk out your workout routine and follow it with complete determination, and lead a healthy and cheerful life.