7 Best Exercises To Burn Calories And Lose Weight

1 Fast-paced running. Running is one of the most simple exercise humans can do, mainly because no equipment is needed—technically not even shoes.

Running for an hour at 8mph burns 1,074 calories per hour for a 200-pound person. Because it requires a serious amount of energy to move this fast and places quite a lot of demand on your cardiovascular system, most of us can’t sprint or run too fast for too long.

The best way to incorporate this exercise is to do 10 to 20 second sprints (or 100 meters to 200 meters, if on a track) and then jog or walk for 60 seconds.

 Keep repeating these intervals until you’ve had enough, or until your sprints look like jogs.

Hoping to maximize your workout even more? Add a weighted vest to your sprints. This will drive up your calorie burn and is much safer than holding dumbbells or using ankle weights. 

2 Jumping rope. There’s a reason some of the world’s greatest boxers have relied on jumping rope to train their footwork and increase their heart rate.

Jumping rope can burn upwards of 1,074 calories per hour and is an excellent workout for the whole body.

Even just a few minutes of jumping rope can get your lungs burning and heart racing.

One of the best parts of these calorie-burning exercises, you can do it almost anywhere, anytime.

The best way to incorporate jumping rope into your exercise regimen is to do intervals.

Jump rope for a specified number of reps, say 100, then walk around or in place for 60 seconds.

Then repeat this interval until you’re too tired to jump effectively.

3 Taekwondo. When it comes to martial arts exercises that burn mega calories, Taekwondo takes the black belt, burning about 937 calories per hour for a 200-pound individual.

Similar to wrestling or boxing, Taekwondo is a self-defense exercise that originated in Korea and has been around for about 2,000 years.

Typically, you’d perform the exercise by competing against another person across from you, who is trying to weaken your technique and cause you to let your guard down.

The exercise emphasizes speed, power, concentration, reaction force, and breath control among its guiding principles, truly taking on an otherworldly athletic mindset, and transforming mind and body to one powerful weapon.

However, many people rest quite a bit between movements, so in order to keep this mode of exercise at the top of the calorie-burning spectrum, minimize rest periods and go directly into each of your movements.

4 Vigorous swimming. You’ve probably heard that swimming, though low-impact and relatively accessible for nearly all individuals regardless of age or injury, burns serious calories—and that’s no lie.

Vigorous, or high-intensity, swimming can burn upwards of 892 calories an hour for a 200-pound person.

In addition to its therapeutic benefits and fine balance between strength and cardio, one of swimming’s ancillary benefits is simply being in water.

Your body normally runs at 98.6 degrees, but the average pool temperature is usually around 80 degrees—so your body burns calories just by trying to keep you warm and make up for the near 20-degree difference.

Want to burn even more calories? Try wearing resistance gloves or using a dead-leg stroke to essentially take your legs out of the mix.

Also, finding a cooler-than-normal pool or body of water to swim in will really jack up your caloric burn as your body burns more calories to stay warm.

5 Running up stairs. Nothing quite puts the hustle in a hard-earned workout quite like running up a set of stairs.

Not only is it great for muscle building and improving your cardiovascular fitness level, but it’s also a serious calorie-scorcher.

Running stairs can burn upwards of 819 calories per hour for a 200-pound person.

Stair running essentially elevates the heart rate while the heart and lungs pump more blood and oxygen, resulting in a higher caloric burn than doing the same distance on flat ground.

Your speed, number of steps, and the height of the steps will all factor in to determine your overall calorie burn.

Keeping a faster pace up the stairs and walking down is the safest approach.

You can vary your upward speed to increase the intensity level or, if you have the coordination, taking two steps at a time will make your muscles work harder and, therefore, increase your calorie burn.

The more steps you climb overall, the harder your body is working. 

6 Jogging. Even at a relatively easy pace like 3 kms an hour, which is just above walking speed for most people, jogging is an excellent way to burn a high amount of calories.

In fact, a 200-pound person can burn 755 calories per hour when running at this relaxed speed.

Because it’s a full-body movement, running works a great deal of muscles at the same time and challenges your cardiovascular system.

It’s also a fairly easy exercise to fit into people’s schedules because; most of the time, all it requires is some running shoes and pavement. 

7 Tennis.

Tennis is an excellent way to burn serious calories. This is mainly because of the amount of fast-paced spurts of running and body movement required in a match.

What makes tennis so challenging is the rapid deceleration and acceleration that’s required for you to be good at the sport.

The ball movement is very unpredictable and when you have unpredictable requirements, you challenge your brain and muscles to contract as fast as possible to move your body and get in position.

Doing this for just five minutes will put a toll on your body, and doing it for an hour could burn upwards of 728 calories for a 200-pound person.

If you’re looking to get even more caloric burn from tennis, consider adding in lightweight compression shorts or weighted vest.

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