exercises to lose weight: Top Exercises To Lose Weight

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Top Exercises To Lose Weight - Indian Weight Loss Blog

Hello Everyone,

How are you doing ? Somehow it’s becoming difficult for me to write posts nowadays. There are so many requests coming from the readers that I keep aside the posts that I plan and work on the queries that come in. Keep them coming !

One of you said that Gymn is boring and asked what are the alternatives. I realized that there are a lot of options to exercise and lose weight if you don’t like going to gymn.

So, in the series – Top Exercises To Lose Weight, I will keep sharing various activities that can help you lose weight without getting bored.

Here we go -

Step Aerobics

Calories Burnt: 800 calories/hr

Step Aerobics is a lower body workout. This means the target areas are legs and hips.Generally , all good gymns do have step aerobics classes at a pre-decided time. Otherwise you can join an aerobics center. Step aerobics are great to tone lower body. I find it difficult to do it for 1 hour at a stretch. Its better to start with half an hour and gradually increasing it by 5 minutes until you hit an hour. I can bet 15 days are sufficient for you to notice the change.

Zumba

Calories burned per hour: 500 calories/hour

This is Fun + Workout. Zumba is too exhaustive, requires great energy levels.

Bicycling

Calories Burnt: 400 – 1000 calories/hr

The calories burnt during bicycling depends on your speed. You can go upto 1000 calories an hour. Bicycling outdoors is a good workout with fresh air. In case you do not wish your neighbours to see you working out , you can invest in a good bicycle exercise machine. Then, you can workout even while watching your favorite daily soap. By the way, what is your favorite daily soap ? Okay, enough blabbering !

Walking

Calories Burnt: 360 cals/hr

We are born to walk. We walk all the time except when we are sleeping or glued to our laptops. This is the easiest exercise. Brisk walk is a wonderful cardio for legs, tummy and hips. If you sprint or walk on inclined surface, you will burn all the more calories.

Swimming

Calories Burnt: 800 cals/hr

Swimming is my favorite exercise to lose weight during summers. I just love water . Its a full body workout and you need not worry whether your arms are getting toned or not, whether your tummy is getting shrinked or not !

Cleaning the house

Calories burned per hour: 200 cal/hour

This is the most boring exercise and I absolutely hate it . I read somewhere that if you clean your house with vaccum or do Jhaadu pocha , you can burn upto 200 calories an hour.