How Can I Burn 500 Calories In 5 Minutes?

How long should I exercise during lunch?

You can exercise on your lunch break and add mini movement breaks throughout the day. You can combine exercise at lunch (maybe 30 minutes) with intentionally incorporating extra movement throughout the day wherever you are whether at work or home.

If you already exercise most or every day, boosting your calorie burn throughout the day can provide even more benefit for weight loss especially if you are at a plateau.

How to burn 500 calories in 45 minutes?

1. Run at a brisk pace. Running, whether on a treadmill or outdoors, or solo or with a partner, is a great way to burn calories. Running at a pace of 6 mi (9.7 km) per hour—or 10 minutes per 1 mi (1.6 km)—can burn 500 calories in roughly 45 minutes.

If you prefer not to do a full run, you can try jogging at slow, steady pace. Since jogging isn’t quite as intense, though, you’ll need to do it for about 60 minutes at a speed of 5 mi (8.0 km) per hour to burn 500 calories.

For the average person, actively engaging in any form of martial arts for this amount of time should burn roughly 500 calories . However, remember to subtract any inactive time spent watching instruction (for instance, during a class).

If you’re practicing high-impact step aerobics, you should be able to burn 500 calories after 50 minutes. When practicing low-impact step aerobics, increase this to 70 minutes. Water aerobics are less intense due to the buoyancy of the water, so it takes about twice as long to burn 500 calories.

This might not be your favorite chore, but at least it’s a calorie-burner! In general, shoveling snow for 50 to 80 minutes in one day will let you burn 500 calories before going to bed. Plan on 80 minutes for light, powdery snow, and 50 minutes for heavy, wet snow.

If you can add up enough physical activity to burn an extra 500 calories per day, you’ll lose about 1 lb (0.45 kg) per week, and double that if you also cut 500 calories per day from your diet.

Go rock climbing. This can be a great way to experience nature and burn calories at the same time. If you have adequate training and experience, try rock climbing outdoors for 40 to 60 minutes. Otherwise, you can practice the same amount on an indoor rock climbing wall at a gym.

How to burn 500 calories in a day?

50 Fun Ways to Burn 500 Calories. 1) Clean the house for 2 hours; turn on your favorite music and you can probably boost that number by 15% (if you dance while you vacuum, of course). 2) Garden for an hour and a half. 3) Hit the slopes; 65 minutes of just downhill skiing burns 500 calories; you only need 50 minutes of cross country skiing …

48) Ice skate for 50 minutes for a caloric burn of roughly 10 cals/minute. 49) Running stairs for 45 minutes burns 500 calories; no pain no gain, right? 50) 7.25 Hours of lying still and quite burns 500 calories; I thought this one deserved to make the list, just to put things in perspective.

3) Hit the slopes; 65 minutes of just downhill skiing burns 500 calories; you only need 50 minutes of cross country skiing to burn the same. 4) One hour of Zumba burns roughly 500 calories, if you give it your full effort throughout the entire class (the Zumba 1,000 cals per hour thing is a myth).

Sorry, riding mowers don’t provide the same workout! 7) 45 Minutes of back to back bodyweight exercises burns 500 calories; check out Fitness Blender Routines for workouts using only bodyweight. 8) Do the Booty Boot Camp 3x through (21 minutes) with the Treadmill Incline Workout (30 minutes) to burn a total of 500 calories.

30) Pilates and Yoga; 2 hours of either of these burns about 500 calories. For this reason, an hour of either of them combined with a half hour cardio is ideal. 31) Surf’s up; just 60 minutes of surfing burns 500 calories, works a complex combo of muscles, and develops your core and balance abilities.

45) 75 Minutes of weight lifting burns 500 calories; the trick is to keep moving and not take cell phone breaks between every set. 46) Leisurely swimming is nice on a sunny summer day; 65 minutes of it burns 500 calories. 47) Working under the hood of an automobile burns 500 calories in just an hour and 20 minutes.

Calories are the fuel that keeps our most basic bodily functions running; our bodies are using energy constantly. The activities on this list step up your caloric burn (especially compared to lounging on the couch) and can even boost your metabolism. *These figures are based off of estimations for a 150-pound woman.