Calories and Exercise
This article talks about the common activities and sports and how much calories they burn when someone practices or does them and also gives a formula to calculate the calories you need in a day to be healthy an to feel good.
Every type of exercise burns calories, but the number of calories will vary slightly based on your weight, body, composition and the intensity of exercise.
Men and women need different amounts of calories, the average per day for men is 2500 and for women 2000.
Your body burns calories all day, even when you aren’t exercising Team sports are often energetic .in a basketball game you burn approximately 576 calories an hour but in a soccer game it’s only 504 .Swimming for leisure burns about 460.You won’t lose too much weight if you like disco dancing as this activity burns fewer calories an hour than swimming: 396.
High impact aerobics uses a lot of calories per hour: 720
Housework burns around 190 calories an hour, watching TV burns only 81 calories; sleeping burns 45.
What are the best activities for burning calories?
Running and cycling very fast (1188 calories burned per hour)
Calculate your own calorie needs.
If you want to calculate how many calories you need a day, you can use this formula:
Your weight in kilos x 38=estimated calories per day, for example 79 kilos x 38 =3002 calories.
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