Let's Move - 17 Activities So Far!

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Let's Move - 17 Activities So Far!
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Sat, 01-27-2007 - 5:10am

We have 17 suggestions for 'Let's Move in February' Challenge...great but since I was hoping for 'One A Day' we need 11 more...

Here's what we have so far. If you gave a calorie count I used it (adjusted for a half hour time), and if you didn't, I used caloriesperhour.com, with a weight of 200 pounds, to do the math.

1. Swimming - 250 calories
2. Dancing-macarena, hustle, electric slide - 150 calories
3. Scraping paint - 170 calories
4. Packing Boxes - 198 calories
5. Shoveling Snow - 272 calories
6. Exercise bike/whle watching television-400 calories
7. Bellydancing - 235 calories
8. Everyone's favorite suggestion - S-e-x - 30 minutes, 90 calories
9. Followed by - laughter - also - 90 calories (if you laugh at the guy during, does it count double? You decide)
10. Walking - 150 (which you might be doing if you laugh during...)
11. Cooking - 63 calories
12. Tennis - 360 calories
13. General Gardening - 304 calories (if you have to shovel the snow off of your garden to start, more double counting!)
14. Repeat all activities 3 times - can't calculate but the time you spend explaining your actions would also count
15. Treadmill (I picked level 4) - 181 calories
16. Billy's Bootcamp DVD ( I calculated as high level aerobics) - 318 calories
17. Bowling - 136 calories

I know there are more fun ways to burn calories...please keep adding!

SJ
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Edited 1/28/2007 8:21 am ET by happysj56
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Sat, 01-27-2007 - 10:51am

"Everyone's favorite suggestion - S-e-x - 30 minutes, 90 calories
9. Followed by - laughter - also - 90 calories (if you laugh at the guy during, does it count double? You decide)"

Oh...that's just wrong..... :)

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Sun, 01-28-2007 - 8:04am

"Everyone's favorite suggestion - S-e-x - 30 minutes, 90 calories
9. Followed by - laughter - also - 90 calories (if you laugh at the guy during, does it count double? You decide)"


That's just hilarious


Shouldn't "walking" give us more than 50 calories per half hour?


Banner: I was the one saying 400 calories for exercise bike, that's going around 16 MPH (You should

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Sun, 01-28-2007 - 8:20am

Mary,
You're correct - when I calculate walking on 'Calories per hour', it gives me 150 for a half hour. I swear Fitday gave me 50, but this morning its giving me 90...

I'll edit the list here to give us the higher number. Of course, now I find I have been 'cheating' on the 'Walk Across America' calculation when I translated calories from weight lifting into miles...but I'll just adjust going forward, I don't want us walking backwards.

Who knew you needed to be a math expert to lose weight?

And I bet you'll be looking at baby clothes at the mall...

SJ
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Edited 1/28/2007 9:05 am ET by happysj56
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Sun, 01-28-2007 - 9:05am
Ohhhhhhhhh I just saw..........Congrats mary..........

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Sun, 01-28-2007 - 5:06pm

I do Bikram's Yoga. 90 minutes in a 105 degree room. Lots of sweat. And the burning of about 800 calories. The best 90 minutes of my day. :)

eMily

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Sun, 01-28-2007 - 7:34pm
30 minutes of embarrassingly pathetic boogying down with my 5 yo and 7 yo is worth 130 calories according to Fit Day. Hope there are no hidden cameras around here! Annie
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Mon, 01-29-2007 - 9:31pm

I have a few to add:

Football or Baseball - Play Catch - 113 calories in a 1/2 hr

Kickball - 318 calories in a 1/2 hr

Frisbee - 138 calories in a 1/2 hr

Anyone for some kickball?

Colleen

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Registered: 02-23-2006
Tue, 01-30-2007 - 1:15pm

Okay here are some more


kickboxing


eliptical


tai chi


jumping rope


pilates


yoga


weight training


Krav Maga (a hardcore self defense workout used to train the Israeli Army.)


rock climbing


skiing/snow boarding


Okay that's all I have for now



 


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Wed, 01-31-2007 - 5:33am

How many do we have on the list so far?

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Wed, 01-31-2007 - 9:18pm

We have 34 choices - I'm posting in 'Challenges' as soon as I calculate calories!

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