Calorie Burning Chart

Why use a calorie burning chart? Well, as discussed in our calorie intake page, one of the best ways to lose weight on a calorie controlled diet is to increase both the number of calories you burn up, and also the rate at which you burn the.

Our bodies burn calories constantly, and even sitting here at your desk your heart is pumping blood, your digestive system is working on your last meal (low calorie meal, obviously), your lungs are lifting air into your body, and even your brain is burning a small amount of energy as you ponder these words. However it's the larger muscle groups that really need, and therefore use up, calorific energy to do their work - and if you can get them going, you can start to see your weight going down even if your calorific intake remains the same! Reduce the intake AND exercise regularly, and you simply can't lose.

There's an added benefit too. Exercising regularly will increase your ratio of lean tissue (muscle) to fat, and muscle needs (hence burns) more energy, even when it's at rest - so your basal metabolic rate actually increases as you get more healthy (that's the reason for those 'activity multipliers' at the bottom of that page incidentally). Don't worry, you don't have to build visible 'muscle' to get the benefits of this, just tone up what you've got and as your fat burns down through aerobic exercise, you will get the weight loss success you deserve simply through activity, according the calorie burning chart below.

Keep your basal metabolic rate in mind as you look at this table, which indicates the estimated number of calories burned during typical exercise activities, over a one hour period - calorie burning chart courtesy of The Mayo Clinic (www.mayoclinic.com). These calories are in addition to your BMR which represents the calories burned simply sitting doing nothing, browsing this website...