Fastest ways to burn 500 calories

June 13th, 2008 11:51

walk, 500 calories, calories burnt, calories burned, fastest way to burn calories, 500 cals, burn cals, burn calories, body pumpOkay, so we know that long-term eating sensibly and exercising regularly is the best approach to all-round good health.

But summer is coming, we feel like shit and look like rice pudding in shorts - we need to act fast. Sensible is for the winter months. Follow these five workout ideas for the fastest route to burning the bulge…

1. Get thee to a treadmillery

Running - especially on an incline - is one of the best ways to burn calories fast. Whether on the road or in the gym, a good, intensive run will give your body a cardiovascular workout, and tone your legs and tum.

Make sure that you warm-up properly - especially if you haven’t jogged for a while - and protect your joints and feet by wearing well-fitting trainers and knee supports.

2. No heavy petting, no bombing

Swimming is an all-round brilliant workout - just look how skinny fish are. But to really benefit, you have to actually swim. Not lounge about floating on your back and having a little think, not paddling up and down the shallow end like a happy Labrador, but proper up-and-down lengths, for a solid hour. It’ll feel nice and then it’ll wreck - that’s how you know it’s working.

3. Stroll to the Finnish line

Nordic walking is a form of walking using poles. Done correctly it is far more intense than a normal stroll and works your whole body. An hour and a quarter of Nordic walking will burn around 500 calories, but because your body is supported by the poles, you feel less knackered than a jog or power walk. Clever.

4. Let’s Get It On (but at a robust pace and with maximum effort please)

Yes, as it says in the bible, perhaps: shagging is great. Not only is it fun, not only does it make boys and girls like you, but it also burns a devil load of calories in just one easy session.

But this isn’t a case of lying back and thinking of England, no, this is a case of jumping around and thinking of the whole England team. Energetic bedness will work through several hundred calories per half an hour!

5. Pump it up

Of course you could just hand over the reigns to a scary, grimace-grinning fitness instructor at a Body Pump class.

The latest in paid-for-calorie-scorching-masochism, Body Pump is apparently the most popular group fitness routine of all time, and uses barbells and weights to a hardcore aerobic workout.

It hurts like fuck but by Jove does it do the job.

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Amy Winehouse On Beach, In Bikini, Has Been Eating Food

Breaking news: Amy Winehouse is not, at the time of going to press, on the brink of death. As recently as yesterday, she was frolicking on a beach in the sun like an actual human.

The troubled singer-songwriter (where “troubled” is an euphemism for ‘we expect her to be found dead in a ditch any second’) spent Sunday on a beach in St. Lucia. We thought she was in rehab in London, but OK.

So far, her latest stint in treatment doesn’t seem to have done Wino any harm; splashing around in a pair of bikini bottoms, she’s distinctly less skeletal and has clearly undergone the process that the Daily Mail refers to as “packing on the pounds” and we at DietPixie call “starting to consume something other than crack”.

Amy has also reportedly started working out for two hours a day - and it seems ‘working out’ is not just code for ‘rolling around on the floor, clawing at the walls and screaming for drugs/booze/Blake’. She has apparently hired a personal trainer and “bounds in to work out on the bikes, weights and Power Plate”.

On the one hand, I’m pleased to see Amy looking a bit more human and actually smiling for a change. On the other hand, things have got pretty bad if Amy freaking Winehouse spends more time in the gym than I do. Who am I supposed to use now as my ‘it could be worse’ person? “It could be worse, you could be Amy Winehouse.” It’s not going to work if she’s running around on Caribbean beaches, now is it?

Still, there’s always Britney.

Source: Daily Mail

Amy Winehouse On Beach, In Bikini, Has Been Eating Food

Breaking news: Amy Winehouse is not, at the time of going to press, on the brink of death. As recently as yesterday, she was frolicking on a beach in the sun like an actual human.

The troubled singer-songwriter (where “troubled” is an euphemism for ‘we expect her to be found dead in a ditch any second’) spent Sunday on a beach in St. Lucia. We thought she was in rehab in London, but OK.

So far, her latest stint in treatment doesn’t seem to have done Wino any harm; splashing around in a pair of bikini bottoms, she’s distinctly less skeletal and has clearly undergone the process that the Daily Mail refers to as “packing on the pounds” and we at DietPixie call “starting to consume something other than crack”.

Amy has also reportedly started working out for two hours a day - and it seems ‘working out’ is not just code for ‘rolling around on the floor, clawing at the walls and screaming for drugs/booze/Blake’. She has apparently hired a personal trainer and “bounds in to work out on the bikes, weights and Power Plate”.

On the one hand, I’m pleased to see Amy looking a bit more human and actually smiling for a change. On the other hand, things have got pretty bad if Amy freaking Winehouse spends more time in the gym than I do. Who am I supposed to use now as my ‘it could be worse’ person? “It could be worse, you could be Amy Winehouse.” It’s not going to work if she’s running around on Caribbean beaches, now is it?

Still, there’s always Britney.

Source: Daily Mail

Amy Winehouse On Beach, In Bikini, Has Been Eating Food

Breaking news: Amy Winehouse is not, at the time of going to press, on the brink of death. As recently as yesterday, she was frolicking on a beach in the sun like an actual human.

The troubled singer-songwriter (where “troubled” is an euphemism for ‘we expect her to be found dead in a ditch any second’) spent Sunday on a beach in St. Lucia. We thought she was in rehab in London, but OK.

So far, her latest stint in treatment doesn’t seem to have done Wino any harm; splashing around in a pair of bikini bottoms, she’s distinctly less skeletal and has clearly undergone the process that the Daily Mail refers to as “packing on the pounds” and we at DietPixie call “starting to consume something other than crack”.

Amy has also reportedly started working out for two hours a day - and it seems ‘working out’ is not just code for ‘rolling around on the floor, clawing at the walls and screaming for drugs/booze/Blake’. She has apparently hired a personal trainer and “bounds in to work out on the bikes, weights and Power Plate”.

On the one hand, I’m pleased to see Amy looking a bit more human and actually smiling for a change. On the other hand, things have got pretty bad if Amy freaking Winehouse spends more time in the gym than I do. Who am I supposed to use now as my ‘it could be worse’ person? “It could be worse, you could be Amy Winehouse.” It’s not going to work if she’s running around on Caribbean beaches, now is it?

Still, there’s always Britney.

Source: Daily Mail

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