How many calories can you burn throwing a party? We did the math so you don`t have to feel guilty skipping your daily workout to get things ready for your geusts:
Getting Ready
Activity: Cleaning the house, 2 hours.
Calories burned: 413
Activity: Rearranging the furniture, 30 minutes.
Calories burned: 177
Activity: Shopping for snacks, 45 minutes.
Calories burned: 155
Activity: Preparing food, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 148
Activity: Decorating, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 136
Activity: Calling your friends to invite them, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 106
Activity: Changing your clothes, 10 minutes.
Calories burned: 74
Being a Good Host
Activity: Dancing, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 325
Activity: Answering the door and ushering in guests, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 177
Activity: Replenishing food and drinks, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 148
Activity: standing around talking, 1 hours.
Calories burned: 106
Activity: Mopping up spills, 1/2 hour.
Calories burned: 74
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Fitness, Q and A
Question:
To get good-looking abs, is it better to do lots of crunches or sets of different of exercises?
Answer:
You don`t have to do thousands of repetitions to tone your abs, says Jaime Brenkus, the cleveland star video “8 minutes abs.” Basic crunches will get you started. “When you lie on your back and curl upward, your train the entire rectus abdominis,” says Brenkus.
However, as you progress, he recommends training your abs in regions for a few minutes four times a week. Do a sit-up with arms over your head, hands clasped, to hit the upper abs; a reserve crunch. Drawing your hips up toward your ribs, for the lower abs; and crunches with side rotations to work the obliques.