Burning Calories – How Many?

I was with a friend and was talking about how many calories you burn per hour. The instructor at the aerobic kickboxing class I have gone to on and off for years always says that I could burn up to 800 calories per hour in the class. When I am on the treadmill, I always try to get it up close to 1,000 calories per hour. I have never been good about tracking calories in, but I always think about how much more I need to work out if I have been eating poorly.

So, if you’re looking for an estimators, here is a calculator and here is a great laundry list of activities from cooking to hiking and biking to broomball or calories burned per hour. I pulled a few common ones from their list here: