Following on from yesterdays post where I talked about calorie burning potential of the various aerobic exercises on the Wii Fit I thought that I’d try the strength exercises to see if they burned calories.
Common sense tells me that this should be quite good, isometric exercise where you use your own body as a resistance tool has been banged on about for many years. It’s also quite well known that low weight high rep lifting exercises is one of the best ways of burning fat. But with all this in mind I’ve got to say that I was a little disappointed in the calories I burnt.
I spent 40 minutes yesterday going through the various strength training routines, sit-ups, press-ups and everything else in between. The great news is that it does elevate your heart rate to a pint that is useful in burning fat. The bad news was that in that 40 minutes I only managed to burn 290 calories. That’s considerably down on what a 40 minute aerobic session on the Wii Fit would be for me. I guess what I can draw from this is that if you primary concern is losing weight then it’s best to stick to the aerobic exercises I wrote about yesterday.
But anyway back to my 14 days of hell, or as I like to call it my new year routine. Yesterday passed by without incident. Breakfast went smoothly and was cereal, lunch I also had cereal. Seeing as how Mrs B had ingredients left over we had another soup night last night. More lentil soup and very tasty it was too. It’s also amazingly low in calories.
1 x bowl of rice crispies = 210 calories
1 x large bowl of corn flakes = 300 calories
1 x bowl of lentil soup with bread = 500 calories
I stuck to drinking water all day yesterday so there are no calories to add on for drinks giving me a total of 1010 calories for the day. That’s not enough, I need to eat more than that!
My exercise was the strength training I did on Wii Fit. That burned 290 calories onto which I add my daily 2100 allowance. Totdal calorie deficit for yesterday was 1380 calories! That’s huge!
I also decided to weigh myself again yesterday. My scales are showing that I’ve lost another pound so that’s 2 pounds in 10 days.
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