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If you spend your day thinking about calories or you think "more is better", you might be wrong. Since new methods of training have become fashionable, the hours we spend exercising do not matter as much. That is, you can spend less time doing sports and burning more calories.
It is not necessary to spend hours in the gym or go running as if you were in a marathon. Sometimes, less is more. Therefore, to accelerate our metabolism and obtain the best results, we must take into account other factors and not only the duration of the training.
In fact, the eternal conventional training, carried out at a constant intensity, are no longer so fashionable. But they highlight new methods that we would never have imagined could be more beneficial.
These are exercises that are of short duration, or that we thought were not effective because they would not tire us, among other reasons. But these may be the best to get strengthen and tone the body, as well as to lose weight. Yoga is one of these disciplines that we tend to prejudge. Therefore, when in doubt, it is best to know what we are talking about.
Regardless of the time you spend in the gym, we do want to remind you that exercising or playing a sport is fundamental to iron health, so, from Objetivo Bienestar, we encourage you to continue having an active life, regardless of the calories burned, even so, and if curiosity has already stung you, we have a few keys for you.
Do you want to know how many calories you can lose according to your training?
First of all, it is important that you know what you are working on, how you should do it and how much time of dedication the training method you follow requires. If you understand what you do, you can work to burn more calories.
Among the training trends that increase calorie burning, disciplines that consist of high-intensity interválic work stand out, since they speed up the metabolism, in a very short time. In this way, you can lose weight, or define the body if you do not have extra pounds, more quickly. These are ways of doing sports that are booming, perhaps because they do not require so much time or, even, because some can be done at home.
A clear example of this is the training known as HIIT (High-Intensity Interval Training), which allows you to burn up to 400 calories in 30 minutes. Also, spinning can eliminate between 600 and 800 calories, in a class that lasts 45 minutes.
These are activities that are leaving behind more traditional activities, such as going for a run. The problem is that aerobic activity requires more time to finally burn the same calories. Specifically, we need between 30 minutes and an hour, to burn from 200 to 800 calories.
And going back to yoga, this is another way to lose weight that is becoming more popular. Relaxing we can lose between 100 and 600 calories, in just one hour. On the other hand, strength exercises also allow us to burn these same calories, depending on the methodology we follow.
Here you have more information about each exercise and the calories that we burn when practicing them.
The HIIT method
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HIIT is a training methodology based on interval work and high intensity, which quickly accelerates metabolism. It is about performing an intense series of exercises with recovery periods in between. Each person must establish the duration of their breaks, depending on the desired objectives.
This discipline allows burning about 200 calories, performing 5 sets of 30 seconds, with recovery periods of 4 minutes. Then, spending 30 minutes a day, you could lose up to 400 calories. Although, we must be alert with this method, as it can be harmful to the body if you practice it for several days in a row.
In addition, your body will continue to burn calories, hours after finishing the activity. Specifically, this happens during the 24 hours after its completion. What more could you ask for?
Spinning
Another way to accelerate our metabolism is with spinning. An interválico work, in which the intensity goes changing, while you do not stop pedaling on top of a static bicycle. And the faster you pedal, the more calories you burn. However, overexertions are not always good, so do not demand more of the account.
In total, you can burn between 600 and 800 calories, in a class of about 45 minutes. Everything depends on the physical condition of the person and the intensity with which they work. In the beginning, it may cost more, but in a short time and making an effort, you will be able to reduce abdominal fat, strengthen your legs and tone your buttocks.
Go for a run
Running is a very common aerobic exercise, but many do not have enough time to go out and burn calories. In addition, our metabolism will accelerate more or less, depending on the terrain and the speed at which we run.
The faster we go, the more calories we will be burning. So we should pay more attention to speed, and not just look at the kilometers traveled.
In this case, it is more complicated to talk about calories with exact numbers, since our weight will also influence what we can burn. Depending on these factors, between 30 minutes and an hour, we can burn from 200 to 800 calories, approximately.
Practice yoga
Yoga may seem an activity that requires little effort, but it is a statement far removed from reality. Balancing the body and mind may require more intensity than it seems. And since there are different varieties of yoga, you can always practice it in a different way. You will not have time to get bored!
Relaxing the whole body can make you burn between 100 and 600 calories, in just one hour. Even practicing Bikram Yoga, you could eliminate 800. Although, this variant of yoga is not so simple. Precisely, because it consists of a 90-minute session, in which up to 26 positions are performed, being at 40 degrees. So you have to endure the heat since this temperature is fundamental to warm the muscles and make the exercise effective.
Force work
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Strength training basically serves to keep muscles and bones strong and, at the same time, helps burn calories by accelerating metabolism.
Among the possibilities of this discipline, there are some modalities with which more calories are burned than others. Normally, strength training allows us to burn between 100 and 200 calories. However, with specific variations of strength training, we can increase this calorie burn up to three times.
Among the exercises that allow this increase, we find lifting weights, compound exercises that involve multiple joints, and workouts that combine strength and cardio. In this way, we can get to burn between 500 and 600 calories.
