What is the most efficient exercise?  (What burns the most calories per minute of exercise?)?
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Assuming that the goal is to eliminate fat, the best exercises will use maximum muscles (butt and legs) have fairly low intensity- so slow,don't make yourself out of breath. and do it daily for 15 to 30 minutes at least.\njogging slowly, elipticals, or cross country skiing are the best fat burners.  Remember, go slow.
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Activities that involve moving the whole body as one unit are the best and most calorie burning. Activities such as power walking especially uphill, sprint work, swimming, road biking especially up hill.\n\nStationary bikes and treadmills are good but I personally consider them a class B for what you are wanting. \n\nGood luck \n\nKarl\nsfhsnz@yahoo.com
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The most fat burning exercise would be something that moves your arms and legs at the same time. An olyptical (a cardiovascular machine) is one of the most calorie-burning exercise machine i know of. If that can't be found nearby, deffinately go swimming a lot.
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High Intensity Interval Training also speeds up the metabolism.  Its a type of cardio exercise where you sprint for 30 seconds, followed by 60 seconds of light jogging.   Repeeat bout 10-15 times.  Recent studies are showing that this is far more effective at burning calories post workout than any other method.
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Cardio workout are really good. Buy a video, and some weights (5 pound or so, however is more appealing to you), and try it. The video tells you how many calories and how much strength you are getting based on how long you do it. It is fast and easy. For your calves, running is a good exercise. I am fit and I have tried this. It works.
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The 'fat burning zone' is the biggest myth ever!!\n\nHigher intensity exercise will still burn more fat calories proportionally because it burns more calories in total.\n\nSay you work with a THR(target heart rate) of 130 BPM(beats per minute) for 30 minutes you may burn off say 100kcals for arguments sake. Out of those calories a higher percentage will be fat calories. say 70kcals are fat calories with me?\n\nThen say you do a workout with a THR of 170 BPM for a shorter duration of time say 20 minutes and you burn maybe 250 kcals. A smaller percentage of these calories will be fat calories BUT on the whole you will still have burned MORE fat calories and MORE total calories as oppose to lower intensity 'fat burning'.\n\nPlease note that the calorie expenditure for above is very rough and only used to explain how things work, body composition also comes into play.\n\nSo basically a higher intensity CV workout (interval is even better) will burn off more fat calories and more total calories than a so called lower intensity fat burning programme.\n\nI hope i made sense in trying to explain myself!!
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Running is far more efficient. The fastest way to lose weight is to elevate your heart rate as many times and and as high as you can safely elevate it. Eat small portions of meals many times a day instead of really big portions only a few times a day. Jump rope rules. Anything running or sprinting will burn a super amount of calories, incomparable to weight lost just dieting.\n\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/lose_weight.php
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Burn more calories everyday. It sounds simple but it works. Most people do not know how to calculate this. The basic formula is Calories Consumed minus Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) minus Physical Activity.\n\nClick here for a good example of what to eat:\nhttp://www.rayandterry.com/html/images/PyramidLRG.gif?osCsid=26a424be471d1337e7c2f105d5c64d9d\n\n"Muscle and Fitness" magazine has some excellent workout routines that won't get you bored. \n\nRemember, diet and exercise is best for lasting weight loss.
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Elliptical trainers are great because they don't feel so difficult as treadmills.  I do think, however, that the readouts for calories burned tend to be overly generous or high.  It might tell you that you burned 450 calories in 40 minutes, but I don't think that anyone really burns that many!\n\nI would work out for 30-40 minutes (including cool down and warm up) - pick one of the preset programs that incorporate some "hills."  Don't lean on the machine or rest your upper body while you work out - it's a common mistake.  Instead, try to pump your arms freestyle or pump with the skiing handblebars if they come on your machine.\n\nA few years ago, I lost about 10 pounds in about 9 months (I wasn't dieting at all), and I only used the elliptical at my gym.  If you work out 5 times a week, I think it's a very effective way to melt some fat and improve your cardio system!
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Do cardio. Try high intensity. It burns more fat and it is fast. Do it like this: first jog for about 2 mins of until u are warmed up. Then sprint as fast as u can for 1 min and then again go slow for another min. Keep doing this for about 20-25 mins and by the time you are done you should be extremely exhausted and out of breath. Your heart rate should go upto abt 80-85% of your max rate but dont keep counting that. Just make sure u cant talk when you are intensely doing it. IF u can talk that means your not doing it hard enough. And also cut abt 200-300 calories daily. Hope this helps!!
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Cardio, cardio, cardio. This helps you with the simple philosophy behind fat loss: Burn more calories than you take in. If your goal is fat loss, incorporate 4–6, 30–60-minute sessions per week into your training schedule.\n\nOf iron and sweat. If your goal is to lean out, follow your weight training with cardio. Since lifting depletes glycogen stores, your body is more likely to use fat as its first fuel source during cardio. Also, the combination of the two results in a higher caloric burn postworkout.\n\nTread heavily. What’s the best exercise and intensity to burn maximal fat? Researchers found that jogging on the treadmill at about 70% of your maximal heart rate, or MHR (subtract your age from 220 and multiply by 0.7 for your heart rate in beats per minute), was optimal, burning about 40 grams of fat per hour of exercise. Going above or below this intensity burned significantly less fat, as did pedaling on a stationary cycle, regardless of intensity.\n\nRun hungry. If you can stomach getting up earlier, perform cardio before your first meal of the day. Your body is most likely to use fat as the first energy source because your glycogen stores are depleted. If you’re concerned with muscle loss, take 10–20 grams of whey protein before your session, but stay away from carbs.\n\nPost-cardio burn. Following aerobic exercise, your resting metabolic rate remains elevated for anywhere from 60 minutes to about 12 hours, depending on the intensity and duration of the exercise session.\n\nMove outdoors. Try your next outdoor run on sand, which is more difficult than running on harder surfaces like cement. It’s easier on the joints as well, but wear shoes to avoid stress fractures and protect your feet from glass. Running on grass is also a welcome relief to joints and arches.\n\nTaper off. Instead of starting slow and building up speed, do your high-intensity cardio early in your workout and taper off to a slow finish to burn significantly more fat. After a 2–3-minute warm-up, immediately kick it into high gear (80%–85% max heart rate) for 15–20 minutes before slowing down (60%–65% max heart rate) for the last 10–20 minutes.\n\nVary your cardio. Whether you’re lifting weights or doing cardio, the trick is to keep your body from adapting to what you’re doing. Regularly changing your cardio mode is the best way to keep your body responding to your efforts.\n\nInterval for success. Unless you’re a highly conditioned athlete, you can’t maintain a very intense pace for very long, so the best way to improve your aerobic fitness and burn fat is with intervals. That is, you alternate very intense periods of work with lower-intensity sessions in which you recover.\n\nNo butts. Smoking deprives cells of the oxygen they need to maximize metabolism, keeps muscles from repairing themselves after exercise and makes cardio a lot tougher. Plus, your smoke-scented clothes are sure to irritate fellow gym rats.\n\nFidget to fight fat. Are you a fidgeter? Maybe you should be. Several studies have shown that toe-tappers, while completely annoying at the office, will burn more calories over the course of the day than the stationary man.\n\nNUTRITION\n\nStay hydrated. Active individuals actually require more water and should aim to consume roughly 1 gallon per day to avoid becoming dehydrated. And if you’re one of those people who hates drinking water, consider this: Dehydrated individuals burn less fat than their well-watered counterparts.\n\nEat more frequently. Eating 5–6 small meals a day as opposed to “three squares a day” causes your metabolism to work constantly. Eating larger meals, on the other hand, slows your metabolism and forces leftover calories to be stored as fat.\n\nEat protein. Since muscle-building is the fastest route to slim down, you want to make sure that your protein consumption is enough to keep up with your weight training. Eat too little protein and your gains could be much slower. Get 1–1
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This depends on intensity and speed, at level 4 (on my x-trainer) and with rpm ranging between 65 and 70, I burn 70-80 calories in 10 minutes, so thats 7 or 8 calories per minute.
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walking burns calories. just slow...\n\ndiet and exercise....
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Anything elliptical that involves both the legs and arms. Elliptical machines give you low impact, and using both arms and legs helps to burn more calories, as well as involve more muscles used.\n\nI can easily burn 400 calories in 30 minutes on an elliptical trainer with not too much effort.  40 minutes is ideal for fat burning, by the way.
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See this site under exercise for most efficient (most results with least time put in) exercises that you can do indoors.\n\nhttp://www.phifoundation.org
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For a 150 pound person, swimming the breast stroke burns 680 calories per hour.\n\nTo calculate this with your weight and the length of time, you can use this link:\nhttp://www.caloriesperhour.com/index_burn.html
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Pilates or Yoga would be awesome.  Both of them are great for burning calories and they are both concentrated on core building.  To be honest all of them work just about the same so it doesnt matter who you buy.  They all come on different levels, so start on level one and then progress.\n\nYoga and Pilates use the weight of the body as resistance to challenge the muscles to become stronger. Yoga has more standing exercises that develop leg strength as well as balance. Pilates is mostly done lying on your back, on your stomach, on your side and sitting down. That's why I like to do both forms of exercise to have a good blend of standing and mat exercises. \n\nYoga also tends to have more exercises that challenge the upper body (chest, upper back, arms) than Pilates does unless you are doing machine-based Pilates, in which case the springs attached to the machines deliver sufficient resistance to strengthen the upper body muscles.\n\nAerobic or cardiovascular exercise is any exercise that is done continuously for 15 to 60 minutes or more while using the arms and legs in a rhythmic fashion. The goal of aerobic exercise is to increase the amount of blood pumped per beat to improve the efficiency and stamina of the heart, lungs, and blood vessels. Examples are walking, running, swimming, dancing, etc. \n\nIt's not that easy to calculate how many calories you burn in yoga and Pilates since the intensity of the class depends on the kind of exercises being done and the strength level of the class participants.\n\nIn general, a 130-pound person would burn approximately 260 calories an hour for a light to moderate Pilates mat-class and 236 calories for a yoga class. "Intense" Pilates would burn approximately 346 calories while an intense yoga class would burn about 400 calories per hour.\n\nYour weight affects how many calories you burn (the more you weigh, the more calories you burn), so use the following formula to make it more accurate: Divide the number of calories burned by 130 pounds. Multiply the answer by your weight in pounds. \n\nFor example, divide 260 calories by 130 pounds. The answer is 2 calories per pound. Multiply that by 110 pounds. The answer is 220 calories.\n\nNo doubt, Pilates has the most number of exercises that focus on the abs, waist, and trunk. Almost every variation you can think of for the abs is offered in Pilates. If abdominal and waist whittling is what you are looking for, Pilates is the ticket for you. This is not to say that yoga will not strengthen your abs and trunk because it will but Pilates just has much more focus on that area.