When trying to lose weight, or maintain a certain weight, it can become mundane doing the same physical activities over and over again.
This is what usually causes people to lose interest in their workouts and never reach their body weight goals.
If you are looking to change things up, and keep your workouts or leisure time more exciting, then check out the following physical activities to burn calories:
1. Ballroom Dancing
For example, 500 calories would require roughly 90 minutes of faster paced dancing.
2. Baseball
The longer you play, the more you will burn off.
3. Basketball
In that same timespan, if you play a half game of hoops, you can burn up to 558 calories.
For those that run the full length of the court, you can burn nearly 747 calories per hour.
4. Bicycling
The average person can burn 48 calories per mile at a speed of 14 mph. At 20 mph, the average person will burn off 56 calories per mile.
5. Boxing
In an hour of hitting the heavy bag, you can burn over 400 calories. An hour of sparring will up the caloric expenditure to over 630 calories per hour.
6. Bowling
If you are there for a few hours, then you will burn off over 400 calories.
7. Cricket
In one hour of cricket playing, you can burn off at least 350 calories.
8. Croquet
If it gets more competitive, and you ramp up the intensity, expect to burn off more calories.
9. Curling
In an hour of curling, you can actually burn over 270 calories.
10. Fencing
In an hour of fencing, the average person can burn off nearly 400 calories.
11. Football
In a game of two hand touch or flag football, an average person can crank out over 550 calories an hour.
12. Golf
Additionally, using a caddie can lower the calories to about 600 burned and riding in a cart will decrease the caloric output to roughly 400 burned.
13. Handball
In an hour, the average person will burn off almost 900 calories during a competitive handball game. The amount of calories burned will also depend on your intensity.
14. Hockey
However, because of the high levels of intense intervals, hockey players can burn off more calories even after the game is over.
15. Horseback Riding
If you increase the horse’s pace, you will also increase the amount of calories you burn in an hour.
16. Ice Skating
For those who crank it up to speed skating, you will also crank up the caloric output to over 1000 calories per hour.
17. Jiu Jitsu
Typically, the average person will burn about 300-500 calories in an hour of light to competitive bouts of Jiu Jitsu.
18. Jumping Rope
Whether you are playing double dutch or doing double leg jumps, this activity is a calorie killer.
The average person can shed up to 600 calories per hour depending on the intensity.
19. Mowing the Lawn
With that in mind, pushing a lawn mower for an hour can burn up to 462 calories. So, get off the riding lawn more and get pushing.
20. Rowing
They will also work every major muscle group harder than just about any other activity on this list.
21. Rugby
Depending on the level of intensity, an average person can burn up to 700 calories in an hour.
22. Running
So, that would be over 840 calories per hour. You can boost your caloric expenditure by increasing the intensity in the form of sprinting.
Also, HIIT for running is a great way to burn calories and get in shape.
23. Skateboarding
Keep in mind, upping the intensity of a skateboard session will also up the calories burned.
24. Skiing
Your level of intensity will affect how many calories you burn in an hour. On a side note, cross country skiing is also considered one of the best total body workouts due to all of the muscles that are engaged in this activity.
25. Sleeping
With that being said, the average person can burn just under 50 calories per hour of sleep.
So, a good night’s sleep of 8 hours can burn nearly 400 calories.
26. Soccer
However, there are many factors that can impact your caloric expenditure like weight, level of intensity and which position you play.
27. Tai Chi
Despite the slow, rhythmic movements, the average person can burn roughly 300 calories per hour.
28. Tennis
The potential of calories burned during tennis really depends on your level of intensity and whether you are playing double or singles.
At a moderately intense level, the average person can burn 288 calories in a doubles match and 414 calories in a singles match per hour.
29. Volleyball
In a non-competitive group game, the average person can burn about 200 calories per hour. Competitive play will up the caloric expenditure to at least 300 calories per hour.
In beach volleyball, the average person can burn up to 700 calories per hour.
30. Walking
So, instead of sitting at your desk during lunch break, use that hour to walk and burn off those calories.
31. Wrestling
Like any other activity on the list, one’s weight will also affect amount of calories burned.
With that said, the average person can burn nearly 450 calories in an hour of wrestling.
32. Yoga
Keep in mind that the level of intensity, type of yoga, and hot yoga can increase caloric expenditure per hour.
Final Words
Before participating in any of these activities, make sure you consult with your health professional to see if the desired activity is safe for you. As mentioned above, it’s highly recommended that you change things up to keep level of motivation high and to keep your body guessing, which maximizes our caloric expenditure.
Also, the numbers used in these activities is based on a person weighing 150-155 pounds. For those of you who weight more or less, you the number of calories burned per hour will increase or decrease based on your body weight.
Lastly, these numbers are for reference only. They don’t guarantee that you will burn that amount every time you participate in an hour of any specific activity.
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