Burning Calories with exercise

The number of calories we burn during different activities depends on the many factors, including your weight and how long and vigorously you exercise. Following are the some figures for someone whose weight is 150 pounds and exercise for 20 minutes on the following activities.

Note: These numbers are rough estimates

Activities with calories burnt:

• Bicycling (moderate effort):  191 calories
• Bicycling (stationary bike, vigorous effort): 250 calories
• Bowling: 71 calories
• Boxing (punching a heavy bag): 143 calories
• Carrying groceries upstairs: 179 calories
• Dancing (disco): 107 calories
• Dancing (ballroom, waltz): 71 calories
• Dancing (modern, jazz, tap, ballet): 114 calories
• Gardening: 95 calories
• Jumping rope, fast: 286 calories
• Kayaking: 119 calories
• Roller-blading: 286 calories
• Running (5 mph): 191 calories
• Scrubbing the floor (on hands and knees): 90 calories
• Sexual activity: 31 calories
• Shoveling snow: 143 calories
• Skiing (downhill): 119 calories
• Skiing (cross-country, moderate speed): 191 calories
• Stair treadmill: 214 calories
• Swimming (laps, fast, vigorous effort): 238 calories
• Swimming (laps, moderate effort): 167 calories
• Tennis (singles): 191 calories
• Vacuuming: 83 calories
• Walking (moderate pace, 3 mph): 79 calories
• Walking (very brisk pace, 4 mph): 119 calories
• Yoga (stretching): 60 calories

Data calculated on bodybuilding.com.