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Hatha yoga, a version of the exercising practise centered on holding specific poses, sits at the bottom of this list, burning an average of about 228 calories per hour in a 200 -pound person.

35. A slow stroll | 255 calories/ hour

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Next up: going for a stroll. For every hour strolled at two miles-per-hour( mph ), a 200 -pound person burns 255 calories .

34. Bowling | 273 calories/ hour

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Bowling, along with the next two items on this list, ballroom dancing and Tai Chi, burns 273 calories per active hour .

33. Ballroom dancing | 273 calories/ hour

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Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art and form of exercise, often practiced with slow, deliberate movements.

31. Canoeing | 319 calories/ hour

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Next up: canoeing. A leisurely paddle down a river will burn 319 calories in an hour for a 200 pound person.

30. Slow, easy cycling | 364 calories/ hour

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Leisure cycling, defined as a pace under 10 mph, burns about 364 calories per hour in a 200 pound person. The same is true for a typical( though probably not Olympic) game of volleyball, or the movement-based, intensive “power” yoga.

29. Volleyball | 364 calories/ hour

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Power yoga, or vinyasa, is a more movement-centered exercising practise than hatha. This articleincludes more information about the different kinds of yoga and how novices can get started.

27. Golfing( and carrying your clubs) | 391 calories/ hour

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If you golf, carry your own clubs around the course, and weigh 200 pounds you can expect to burn 391 calories per hour . The same is true of typical downhill skiing and a 3.5 mph walk.

26. Downhill skiing | 391 calories/ hour

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Low-impact aerobics burn about 455 calories per hour in a 200 pound person. The same is true of a moderate workout on an elliptical machine, weight/ resistance educate, and softball and baseball.

23. ‘Running’ on the elliptical | 455 calories/ hour

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Edging out the first major sport on this list: water aerobics. The pond exercise can burn as much as 501 calories per hour in a 200 pound person.

19. Light or moderate lap swimming | 528 calories/ hour

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Swim light or moderate laps in a pond, and a 200 pound person can burn 528 calories per hour .

18. Hiking | 546 calories/ hour

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Hiking, stationary rowing, and water skiing all burn about 546 calories per hour in a 200 pound person.

17. Rowing on a machine | 546 calories/ hour

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Cross country skiing is even more rigorous, burning 619 calories per hour in a 200 pound person.

14. Backpacking | 637 calories/ hour

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Want to burn even more? Go backpacking. Like ice skating and racquetball, a 200 pound person will use about 637 calories per hour on a hike with a heavy backpack.

13. Ice skating | 637 calories/ hour

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High-impact aerobics can use 664 calories per hour .

10. Rollerblading | 683 calories/ hour

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Rollerblading is astonishingly intense, burning 683 calories per hour .

9. A game of basketball | 728 calories/ hour

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A basketball game, tough or flag football, and singles tennis all offer great exercising, burning about 728 calories per hour in a 200 pound person.

8. Flag football | 728 calories/ hour

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A moderate 5 mph operate will burn about 755 calories per hour in a 200 pound person.

5. Operating up stairs | 819 calories/ hour

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Run upa StairMaster( or up a particularly long flight of stairs ), and a 200 pound person will burn 819 calories per hour.

4. Vigorous swimming | 892 calories/ hour

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“Vigorous” swimming is even better, churning through 892 calories per hour .

3. Taekwondo | 937 calories/ hour

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Taekwondo is the most intense competitive athletic on this list, burning 937 calories per hour in a 200 pound person.

2. Jump rope | 1,074 calories/ hour

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At the upper part of the list though are two very straightforward activities: jumping rope and operating fast (8 mph to be precise ). Do either of those things for an hour, and a 200 pound person will burn 1,074 calories.

1. Running, 8 mph | 1,074 calories/ hour

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A number of popular workouts didn’t make this list. Here’s why: In order to make sure “were in” comparing apples to apples in making this ranking, we exclusively utilized data regarding a single, sweeping review of exert science.

There simply isn’t a dataset more thorough or well-grounded out there, and we didn’t wishes to muddle this one up by introducing numbers obtained using different methods, from branded advertising or without exact comparisons.

That told, it’s worth keeping in mind that there are plenty of ways people love to exercise that aren’t among these 36. Here are a few, along with the calories per hour counts that have been attributed to them.

Take these numbers with a grain or two of salt, especially when comparing their numbers with numbers from the peer-reviewed comparative research.

SoulCycle/ Spinning : The stationary bike class company has its issues, but reports that its attendees can expect to burn 500 to 700 calories in a conference. This tracks closely with other data on stationary cycling. Pilates : We found only one2 005 publicationoffering anythinglike science on the calorie efficiency of pilates( though it appears to have been published without normal peer review ). It claims pilates burns 4.0 to 7.5 calories per minute. Assuming this translates over longer time spans, that’s about 240 to 450 calories per hour. Zumba : A Zumba-funded surveyconducted on young, healthy womenfound that a single 39 minute Zumba class burns an average of about 360 calories.

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