Burning calories without the gym!

[curiouskatie]

What type of workout burns the most calories per hour?

I can't go running at the moment because my only free time is after dark.

I like exercise videos, but tend to find that most are aimed at beginners, does anyone knows of any good ones that are more challenging than the latest celeb-pretending-they-haven't-had-liposuction DVD?

[s3ahors3]

give up! have some (cheese cake)

scrambled eggs

[Octavius]

Doesn't have to be a work out....

http://www.caloriesperhour.com/index_burn.html

[PinkFizz]

Sex??

[Farmer Giles]

Biking and cross-training are both good exercises and burn lots of calories but are also low impact.

Basically, the higher your heart rate goes, then the more calories you burn.

However, calories burnt doesn't nessecary equate to fat loss. Everyone has a max heart rate (calculated by taking your age away from 220, eg 220-33 = 187). In order to burn fat you should keep between 60 and 85 % (between 112 and 159 in the example above) of your max heart rate. Go above this and you still burn calories but you're increasing your cardio training ability rather than burning fat.

I found this myself when i moved from swimming to running. Noticed that i wasn't losing any weight even though i was burning loads of calories. Then bought a heart rate monitor and kept my heartrate within my fat burning zone and have noticed the difference so so much

[Champagne]

Do you have free time in the mornings? Are you able to bike it to work? Cycling and slow sustained jogging are great calorie burners.

[cascarelli]

Is that offer for anyone PinkFizz?