Yes, you can be a couch potato and STILL burn calories, slim down and tone up. Try these 10 ways to burn 100 calories without removing your eyes from the TV.
1. Stand up. You burn an average of 70 calories an hour by just standing up. Watch a couple of your favorite shows and you’ll be at 100 calories in no time… well, in about an hour and a half.
2. Do 5, Daily100s. On average you will burn 100 calories. A Daily 100 is 100 seconds or 100 reps of an exercise!
3. Just Dance. Watching "So You Think You Can Dance” or “Dancing with the Stars?” Dance right along with the contestants. Or better yet, create your own dancing competition with your kids. You can burn approximately 100 calories in 20 minutes.
4. Make Out! 20 minutes of serious kissing burns 100 calories.
5. Laugh Out Loud. Watching a comedy that induces tear-streaming, side-stitching laughter can singe 100 calories in 20 of those minutes.
6. Give a Massage. If you’ve ever given someone a serious massage, you know that it takes work! And, of course, anything that takes work also burns calories. While giving a massage you are engaging your muscles in order to relax theirs, working your hands, arms, back and core. Your average hour massage can burn 260 calories. So to fulfill your 100 calorie quota, 23 minutes will do.
7. Slip in a Quickie. A 10-minute quickie workout can burn 100 calories while toning your muscles. Try this Couch Potato Quickie Workout with ExerciseTV’s Laurel House.
8. Take a Seat on the Wall. Wall sits burn 100 calories in just 10 minutes. It’s a major abs, butt and thigh workout! It sounds easy… It’s not.
9. Knit a Gift. Knitting burns an average of 88 calories an hour. Knit for 1 hour and 8 minutes and you’ve burned 100 calories AND you have something to show for it.
10. Watch a Workout. Watch ExerciseTV and you won’t be able to help yourself but get up and burn off lots of calories. Who says TV watching has to be a passive?
Do a few of these 100 calorie workouts and you will have gotten your exercise in for the day… without missing your favorite shows!
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