Muscles & Mascara
Ever find once you shower and prepare for the day, it's harder to change into workout clothes and get moving? Whatever the reason may be, check out some tips to help combat this! You can rock both muscles, and mascara! Then, scroll down to find out roughly how many calories you are burning per workout.
1. Going to class all afternoon? Put the workout clothes on! Play the gym clothes up with trendy shoes like some sporty black Nikes to match your black and grey get-up. Or, keep it totally colorful!
2. Have a presentation or feel like dressing nice anyway for class? Immediately when you get back to your home, change! Act like you are going to workout, even if you don't feel like it. This may motivate you to actually do something gym related, even if its just squatting during your fav tv series.
3. Have a job and need to wear work clothes, whether it be a uniform/scrubs or heels/dress pants? Set time aside to either wake up early and get a workout in, or set time aside in the evening to do so. Write it down, set alerts on your phone, put up pictures of your bod-goals, do whatever it takes to help remind and motivate yourself to workout regularly.
4. Plan to go out in the evening? Take your clothes, shoes and make-up to your gym locker (or whatever makes you, you)! Workout, bust-it-out, quickly shower away the sweat (releases toxins), change for the night and out you go! This is doable!
5. Commercial breaks are also a chance to get in some yoga-stretches, push-ups, planks, sit-ups, ab-crunches or squats.
So when we exercise.... lets make it count!!! Read on for the science behind it!
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What exactly is a "CALORIE"?
It is a unit of energy that is absorbed by the body from food or drink, and thus, can be burned.
When reading labels, it is important to remember these numbers, although products have become better at labeling this on their packaging.
Fat: 9 cal/g
Alcohol: 7 cal/g
Carbohydrates: 4 cal/g
Protein: 4 cal/g
About how many calories are burning per workout?
Here is a chart from Prevention, a fitness catalog. Keep this in mind while performing a physical activity.
| INTERVAL | HOW IT FEELS | LEVEL* |
| Warm-Up, Cool-Down | Gentle effort | 3-4 |
| Easy | You can sing without strain | 4-5 |
| Moderate | You can carry on a conversation | 5-6 |
| Brisk | You're slightly breathless | 6-7 |
| Power | You can only say a few words at a time | 7-8 |
| Peak | No breath for talking | 8-9 |
*Based on a 1-to-10 scale where 1 is sitting on the couch and 10 is all-out sprinting
ALWAYS make sure to do an adequate warm-up! It's actually better in most cases to warm-up with DYNAMIC stretching. This involves large yet controlled movements of the body, like high-knee leg swings, for example.
Pick up the work-out pace from moderate to powerful, or switch between brisk and moderate.
ALWAYS make sure to properly cool-down! This involves STATIC stretching: slow, controlled movements, such as stretching the hamstrings, shoulders, wrists, neck, arms, legs, etc.
According to the DailyBurn, when choosing what exercises to do, this can help guide you when choosing workouts based on calories-burned per hour. Remember, you must be giving 100% effort when doing these activities to really burn calories, not just doing so by leisure.
Running : roughly 818 cals
Tennis : roughly 660 cals
Swimming : roughly 655 cals
Spinning : roughly 652 cals
HIIT (one of my favs!) : roughly 573 cals
Rowing : roughly 571 cals
Boxing : roughly 491 cals
Aerobics: roughly 409 cals
Pilates : roughly 286 cals
Lifting: roughly 245 cals
No matter what, just continue to MOVE! It is heart-healthy and exercising releases endorphins, also boosting your mood and/or suppressing stress.
Thanks for "Jogging with Me!" @JoggingwithJewelz on IG
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