Burning 300 calories on a regular basis can help you to lose a bit of weight each month, or allow you eat a few more calories each day and still maintain your weight. If you burn 300 calories, 20 times a month, you will burn about 6,000 calories, which can lead to about a pound and a half weight loss monthly. You may be surprised how easy it is to burn 300 calories through exercise and everyday activities.
Walking or Running
If you weigh 190 lbs, walking for an hour at a relatively moderate pace of 3mph will burn about 300 calories. If you speed up your pace to 4mph, you will burn about 40 more calories. The less you weigh, the longer it takes you to burn 300 calories by simply walking. Running burns calories more quickly than walking, making it feasible to burn 300 calories. A 30 minute run at a relatively leisurely pace of 5mph burns just over 300 calories, while running for just 18 minutes will burn 300 calories, if you run 7mph.
Indoor and Outdoor Activities
Staying active around your house or using your free time to volunteer for a charitable activity such as planting trees or cleaning up after a storm can easily burn 300 calories. Gardening, raking or putting leaves in bags for about 50 minutes burns about 300 calories, if you weigh 185 lbs, mowing a lawn with a push mower for 36 minutes or shoveling snow with a shovel for 34 minutes both burn about 300 calories. Indoor activities such as moving furniture for about 35 minutes or shopping while pushing a shopping cart for almost an hour also burn 300 calories.
Hiking
Cross-country hiking for 35 minutes is a healthy way for a 185 lb person to burn 300 calories. The more you weigh, or the longer you hike, the higher your calorie burn. When you hike cross-country for exercise, keep you pace steady and try to hike continually for 35 minutes to burn calories consistently. If you want to burn more calories during your hike, choose trails that feature changes in elevation and more difficult terrain to negotiate.
Water Exercising
Aqua aerobics and other forms of aqua exercises such as deep water jogging or water running are refreshing ways to burn 300 calories. It takes a 50 minute aerobic class to burn 300 calories if you weigh 185 lbs you can find aqua aerobics classes in many gyms or community centers. General swimming burns 300 calories in a 35 minutes, while more vigorous freestyle lap swimming burns the same number of calories in about 18 minutes. Swim with a group of people or in a pool with a lifeguard to stay safe while exercising in the water.
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