Busy people today need simple activities that can burn calories fast without dieting or a commute to the gym. With schedules that demand full attention, simple strategies can be applied throughout the day, and practiced anywhere, anytime. Integrating pleasures, chores, hobbies and personal interests with burning calories offers simple strategies for quick weight loss, staying fit and maintaining balance between work and play.
Step 1
Turn up the music and dance. The body loves movement, especially when your favorite melodies are accompanying your motions. Fast-paced music tempos mean you have to move faster, and burn more calories, to stay with the beat. The Mayo Clinic says you can burn as many calories dancing as you can walking, swimming or riding a bike. Enjoy dancing at home, or visit your favorite nightclubs for fast weight loss results.
Step 2
Clean one floor of your home at a time. Dusting lower bookshelves, reaching up high to clean the cabinets and vacuuming various rooms require stretching and balancing--movements that quickly burn calories and build muscle. You can estimate the calories you burn by entering your weight and the duration of time spent doing these cleaning chores at FitWatch.com.
Step 3
Complete as many jumping jacks as possible during every other commercial break of your favorite TV program. At night, incorporate interval training by adding fitness moves throughout the duration of your TV programs. With sit-ups, push-ups, jumping jacks or lunges, you can burn anywhere from 150 to 300 calories over two hours, depending on the intensity level of your activities.
Step 4
Weed, water and plant in the garden. Planting and gardening are very interactive and require digging, relocating heavy soil and rocks, pulling weeds and other activity, both aerobic and anaerobic. Increasing the heart rate in combination with using muscle strength for weeding and planting creates an optimal combination of fitness that helps increase metabolism and burn calories, as noted by CaloriesPerHour.com.
Things You'll Need
- Music
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