The average Thanksgiving meal totals about 3000 calories. That's for the meal only...not all the other recreational eating of the day(s)! (herein referred to as "tryptophan-induced-coma-cheat-day")Needless to say, weight management can be very difficult this time of year. Don't fret, though, it's all still about "calories out" exceeding "calories in."
Folks who participated in the CF Loser Challenge last Spring found the Livestrong site to be very valuable. Eating and exercise patterns are easy to track. It can be an eye opener just to see at the end of a normal eating day how the calories quickly creep up and up.
But, instead of focusing on the intake challenges of the holiday season ("Oh, there's so much food around." "It's just so easy to graze.")...focus on the outgo ("Wow, I burn 20 calories just clicking on the CF Blog!")
Here are some summaries from the Livestrong site (these are estimates and may not be accurate for your weight):
30 minutes calisthenics (vigorous): 350 cals
60 minutes running (10 min/mile pace): 700 cals
60 minutes running (8.5 min/mile pace): 800 cals
10 minutes doing laundry: 25 cals
2 hrs biking (moderate to vigorous): 1200 cals
60 minutes mountain biking: 600 cals
20 minutes hacky-sacking: 93 cals
30 minutes spinning: 250 cals
20 minutes pole vaulting: 140 cals
30 minutes rowing (vigorous): 400 cals
15 minutes standing in line: 28 cals
30 minutes stretching (mild to moderate): 120 cals
60 minutes swing dancing: 300 cals
30 minutes swimming (crawl, moderate): 250 cals
CFers, go burn it up!
13 comments:
I don't believe I will be doing any pole-vaulting anytime soon........Especially at a measely 140 calories an hour.....:)
I bet playing flip-cup burns about as many calories as hacky-sackying - but then there's the consumption component in flip-cup that negates it. Drat.
Hacky-sacking?? Do people still do that??
What the heck is swing dancing?
Hey, Livewrong...Capt. Awesome was a javelin-eer and he's fit as a fiddle...don't bust the field events!
Mike: KBs?
The 120 calories is for 20 minutes. The full hour of Pole Vaulting, High Jump, Long Jump or Triple Jump would get you 474 calories....Standing and eating would get you 158 calories. Drivng to work would get you 209 calories.
Right, but if you're around javelin throwers long enough it leads to -500 calories due to malted hops consumption!
I did decathalon and pole vaulting is not worth the 140 calories.
BF: "Standing and eating would get you 158 calories" ??? lmao...that's definitely in the running for CF blog quote of the year!
30 minutes kissing--35 calories
15 minutes foreplay--25
15 minutes intercourse--95
Realistically:
1 minutes foreplay--1
3 minutes intercourse--15
i love the flip cup comment
Sign me up for pole vaulting!
define moderate swimming.
That's either the pace (ie, not vigorous) or the quality (ie, somewhere between floating and sinking)...maybe.
erock who?
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