P90X Reviews: A Complete Review on the P90X Workout System

In the quest to reduce calories, a frequently asked question is “How many calories does an activity burn in an hour?” If you’re working out on a treadmill or exercise bike, the equipment usually does an estimated calculation for you. Even if you’re not on a piece of equipment, knowing how many calories a basic activity burns per hour can help you estimate how many calories you need to reduce from your diet to make up for eating that huge dinner the night before!

Burning Calories at Your Job

Even if your job is just sitting at a desk, every action burns some calories. You’re burning calories just by sitting there (though not a lot). Here’s a breakdown of some basic calorie burning expectations per hour.

Desk Job                      106

Retail Job                     162

Childcare Worker         211

Gym Teacher                282

The gym teachers in that survey must have been more active than the gym teachers we had in high school! But as you can see, even if your job involves sitting for most of the day, you’re still burning calories.

Walking is usually the metric by which calorie burning is measured. An average-weight person at 155 pounds will burn about 100 calories for every 2000 steps that they take. This number though is variable based on things like walking speed and incline. There are a number of interactive calculators on the internet and available for sale that will help you calculate the number of calories you burn per hour. There are even some pedometers that do it or you!

Losing weight and getting in shape requires that you burn more calories. Hands down. The best way to make that happen is to incorporate a workout into your schedule. Not only will you burn calories while working out, but your metabolism will stay heightened after the workout and you’ll burn more calories then, too.

For example, P90X is designed to burn approximately 600 calories during the workouts (which are just shy of an hour). The Insanity Workout goes even higher — Some people report burning up to 1100 calories in one workout (also about an hour). And Slim in 6 users report calorie burns per hour of about 500 calories.

Don’t let anybody tell you that counting calories isn’t important, but counting the calories that you eat is just as important as counting the calories that you burn off!

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