It’s a fine morning. You wake up, feeling well-rested, and ready for the day ahead. What’s usually the first thing that comes to mind? For many, it’s breakfast.
The most important meal of the day, so it’s said. But breakfast can also the beginning of a journey that leads to being unfit. Every meal you eat adds up to your intake of calories. The more calories you eat, the more likely you are to become overweight, or worse, obese.
Ideally, you should only consume as many calories as your body needs for energy. Typically, that’s 2,500 calories for men or 2,000 for women each day. Any more than that, and your body stores the excess as fat. In turn, you’ll put on weight, and it will soon become unhealthy.
But food is good. Food is delicious. And that’s true. So if you like to eat a lot, it’s always wise to burn off the excess calories. Here are 3 cardio training exercises that can burn lots of them in one go.
3 Gym Exercises that Burn the Most Calories
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Skipping rope
You may remember doing lots of skipping rope as a kid. It’s a lot of fun, but also very taxing on your body. As an example, a 70-kg man doing skipping rope for 30 minutes can burn 372 calories. It’s a good burn, but it’s hard to do for a long time.
So it’s best to do skipping rope at intervals. You could do it vigorously for a few minutes, then recover afterwards by, say, jogging in place, then repeat.
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Sprint intervals
Jogging and running are good calorie-burners if sustained for a long time. Let’s say you weigh 70 kg and run at 12 kph. In 30 minutes, this pace can burn 465 calories. But adding bouts of sprinting to your cardio training routine will further increase the calorie burn.
You may try alternating between 2 minutes of a sprint followed by a 1-minute jogging recovery. Then rinse and repeat. But if you can sustain more than 2 minutes of sprinting, then you may do so. You’ll increase the calorie burn even more in a shorter period of time.
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Hill workouts
Biking and running uphill requires more effort. By recruiting more muscle fibres, it allows your body to burn even more calories than doing the same exercise on flat paths. For each degree of incline, you will burn around 10% more calories than on flat surfaces. So in your treadmill sessions or spin classes, add some incline to the machine’s settings. It will be more taxing on your legs, but the higher calorie burn is worth it.
We all know how ravenous you can feel after a workout, so make sure you fuel your bodies with the right foods before and after your workout. If you’re looking to burn those excess calories in a gym in NZ, head over to BodyFix Gym Christchurch. We offer a wide range of cardio equipment and cardio training programs, as well as spin classes and punch classes. Visit our website now and get a free pass for your first session.
