Optimum Calorie Expenditure
How Many Calories Should you burn?
Health and fitness research indicates that
to reap the health benefits
of cardio or strength-training
exercise, we should burn between 700 calories (bare minimum) and 2,000
calories (optimal disease-protection benefit) per week, in moderate aerobic
activity.
How to Burn Recommended Calories by Walking
Brisk
walking, at about four miles an hour, burns about 100 calories per
mile. (Power-walking
burns more!) Therefore, to burn the minimum recommended number of weekly
calories (700), you need to cover a total of seven miles, or walk for
about 1 hour 45 minutes.
Similarly, in order to burn 2,000 calories
in a week, you need to cover a total of 20 miles, or walk for about five
hours.
How to Burn Recommended Calories by Swimming
If you enjoy swimming,
then to burn 700 calories you need to swim at a reasonable speed for about
1 hour 10 minutes. To burn 2000 calories, you need to perform a 40-minute
swimming workout, five days a week.
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