Calories Burnt During Exercise

You have heard and read about so many times, your doctor has told you, you hear on television and read in every magazine you look: Exercise is good for you.

You must have drawn the conclusion that exercise can help you lose unwanted pounds and strengthen your wobbly bits.

But how does it work?

It depends on metabolism. Why? The answer is simple. Because metabolism is the process by which your body uses the food you eat in order to provide the necessary amount of energy to your body.

During the metabolic processes, calories from carbohydrates, lipids and proteins that make up your diet is combined with oxygen to release energy that your body needs to function.

There are three ways to spend your energy daily: basic needs, food processing and physical activity.

Not only an activity can burn calories, but also the moments when your body is passive, at rest. Even then there are the biochemical processes occurring that require energy to hunt them.

Calorie metabolism provides energy for basic needs of the body such as breathing, blood circulation and cell growth and repair.

The most intense process of your body is digesting food. The process of digestion are maintained with almost ten percent of the calories you eat each day.

More than that, last but not least, the daily physical activity, like running, swimming or walking, also need calories.

Unlike the basic needs of your body digestive, physical activity you do depends on your choice. If you want to burn more calories and lose weight, you need to exercise hard.
The amount of calories you burn during exercise depends on your age, sex and body composition.

The elderly tend to have a slower metabolism and muscle also less, which is one of the most "active" tissue to burn calories.

Women consume fewer calories than men in the exercise of the equivalent exercise, also because men tend to have more muscle mass.

People with more weight can burn calories at a higher rate than smaller people, because their bodies need more energy for movements.

Take for example a person weighing 130 pounds, a bike race over 20 miles per hour would burn 944 calories per hour.

For the same amount of exercise, a person who weighs 155 pounds would burn 1125 calories per hour.

The number of calories you burn is also influenced by the intensity with which you exercise - generally the more difficult the exercise, more calories burned.

Running at 5 mph burns 472 calories per hour, whereas at 11 mph, you can burn 1062 calories per hour.

High impact aerobics also burns more calories than low-impact exercise (413 calories versus 295 calories / hour).

It is said that sports that require running intermittently, such as:

• · Basketball (472 calories / hour)

• · Tennis (472 calories / hour)

• · Football (531 calories / hour)

• · Soccer (590 calories / hour).

allow you to burn more calories than less active sports, such as:

• · Golf (236 calories / hour)

• · Cricket (295 calories / hour).

Never try to find excuses for not doing chores, because household chores are a good way to lose some calories quickly and easily, without even thinking:

• · Cleaning your house will burn 207 calories / hour while carrying heavy loads around the garden can burn 472 calories per hour.

• · Painting or coating your house burns about 266 calories per hour, so rub a dirty floor will make you lose calories - about 325 calories per hour.

Only 30 minutes spent engaging in physical.