Which are the Best Cardio Exercises for Burning Calories ?

Experts recommend 30-60 minutes of exercising every day. This can help you to control and reduce your weight, prevent heart disease and improve strength and endurance.

With so many options, people are wondering which exercise is best for burning  calories. So this is a list of best exercises and amount of calories burned per hour.

Running !

Running is the best exercise you can do to burn calories. If you run at a speed of 12 km / h you’ll burn 986 calories per hour. If you sprint or run on hill, you’ll spend even more calories.

Roller skates !

Roller skating was most popular in the 80 ‘ , but is still rank among the best exercises for burning calories. With an hour’s drive of roller skates you’ll burn 913 calories.

Jumping rope !

Many people were jumping rope when they were children, but by incorporating this exercise into a daily routine you’ll burn 730 calories for one hour workout. An hour seems like much, but you can practice for only 10 minutes and you’ll spend 122 calories.

Steppers !

With steppers you’ll burn 657 calories per hour, and is a good exercise for strengthening the lower part of the body.

Jogging !

Fast running burns a lot of calories, but slow jogging at a pace of 8 km / h can burn 584 calories an hour, which is also great.

Basketball and football !

A friendly game with your friends and you’ll spend 584 calories per hour. Exercise with friends tends to make the time pass more quickly and thus it’s better way to spend those extra calories.

Swimming !

Swimming is great exercise for the whole body because all the muscles are involved. Almost all styles of swimming will burn 511 calories per hour. Also swimming is no-contact sport, so is safe and effective for your joints.

source: http://losingweightdone.com/

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Lower Body Cardio And Strength Workout For Legs And Butt

This was supposed to be an easy workout. Most of them are, to be honest. I usually talk myself into the tough workouts by planning something simple and then adding on little by little until it turns into something crazy, which is pretty much what happened here.

I knew I wanted to do another stepper workout – it’s been a while since my last one and I get requests for them all the time – so I figured I would do some sort of cardio HIIT with it. But then I didn’t really feel too cardio-y, so I thought I might do a strength training workout instead. But no matter how I put it together, it seemed like it was going to be a really short video.

Now, I’m all for short workouts, as you know, but I like to make sure that I have a real variety of workout lengths on my YouTube channel and I had just put out a few shorter videos in a row.

So, in an effort to go a little longer, I put the two things together: the HIIT with cardio AND the strength training! And the result was this little gem of a lower body workout.

43 minutes of nearly non-stop sweating. High heart rate cardio with a decent amount of jumping for a good calorie and fat burn, plus slow and controlled strength work to build lean muscle in your legs and butt and develop balance and core stabilization.

I really love the way this one came out; check out the workout breakdown and video below.

Lower Body Cardio And Strength Workout For Legs And Butt

Level: Intermediate (duration of the workout, difficulty of exercises)
Equipment: Aerobic Stepper
Warm Up And Cool Down: Both are INCLUDED
Exercise Time: 43 minutes
Purpose Of The Workout: Building lean muscle in your lower body (where the biggest muscles are) is a fast and efficient way to boost your metabolism and burn fat; high heart rate cardio burns calories and boosts confidence
This Workout is Good For: Intermediate or advanced exercisers looking to challenge their leg strength and endurance

Main Workout

(warm up is built in; complete the circuit of Cardio HIIT + Strength Training 3x):

Cardio HIIT

(timer is set for 30 seconds of work and 10 seconds of rest; do each exercise 2x before moving on; the first round should be done at a warm up pace)

• Toe Tappers
• Step Ups
• Flyovers
• Jump Ups

Strength Training


(complete each exercise 10x on each side)

• Fast Ups
• Split Squat into Drinky Bird
• Reverse Lunge into High Knee
• Curtsy Lunges

FINISHER

(timer is set for 30 seconds and 10 seconds; repeat twice with no rest)

Pop Squats (30 seconds) and Squats (10 seconds)


source: curejoy

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