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5 Easy Ways to Burn 500 Calories a Day

Think those 10 hours in a cubicle can’t be combated?  Here are 5 ways. 


1. Get in a class.  Higher intensity hour long classes are a fun and fairly easy to find at any local gym or YMCA.  Spin class, kick boxing, dancing and even Bikram yoga classes can burn 500 calories or more per class. Stay from more sedentary classes, such as stretching, and shoot for aerobics.

2.  Stop drinking your calories.  Most of the time, people don’t count the calories they chug down since they tend to not fill you up. Let’s put some numbers in perspective:
• With breakfast, one iced medium vanilla latte equals 190 calories.
• With snack-time, one Coke equals 135 calories.
• With lunch, one cup of apple juice equals 120 calories.
• With dinner, one cup of wine equals 100 calories.
Add these all up, and that’s 545 calories!   Opt for water instead. 

3. Keep Moving.   Daily activities, like shutting a door, holding an elevator, grabbing the remote or even tapping your feet, burn calories. For active people, these regular activities can burn approximately 30 percent of the calories they consume, while inactive people only burn about half of that. In terms of a 1,700-calorie-a-day diet, inactive people will burn approximately 255 calories over the course of the day. Active people easily will burn off 510 calories or more!


4.  Have a row.  It’s usually the most underused of all gym equipment, but can give you a great workout.  Rowing requires you to use several muscle groups, is fairly low impact, and is usually free for you to use at your convenience.  An hour of vigorous rowing on a machine easily will burn between 500 and 800 calories, depending upon your weight.

5.  Work in your yard.  Spring clean up is approaching, so get out there and start planting, weeding and cleaning up. You’ll be happy with how it looks and how you feel.  Yard work can burn between 300 and 500 calories an hour depending upon your level of activity, but an hour and a half outside will fly by.

Source: asfmagazine.com