What Exercise Burns the Most Calories?

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this podcast, we’re going to talk about the best exercise for calorie burning.

The type of calories you burn depends on your diet and exercise habits. If you consume sugar, you’re going to burn sugar calories. If you consume fat without sugar, you’ll burn fat.

Avoid overtraining, which increases cortisol and can deplete protein from your muscles.

Calorie burning largely depends on the health of your mitochondria. Your energy levels, recovery time, and endurance can indicate whether your mitochondria are healthy. Certain medications like statins weaken the mitochondria.

To increase and strengthen your mitochondria, do the following:

• Exercise with adequate rest

• Focus on thyroid health

• Increase muscle mass

• Intermittent fasting

• Cold therapy

• Consume meat

Metabolomics can examine mitochondria to determine whether they’re getting enough fuel. Insulin resistance can destroy mitochondria. Growth hormone can reduce insulin resistance, help you build more muscle, and burn more fat.

If your diet is too high in carbs, you won’t be able to burn fat. This is why it’s essential to look beyond calorie burning. Fat burning is only 15% exercise and 85% diet. The type of exercise that will help you burn the most calories is something that is high-intensity and involves as many muscles as possible.

DOWNLOAD THE COMPLETE CALORIE BURNING CHEATSHEET: https://www.drberg.com/resources/calorie-burning-cheatsheet

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0:00.0	What is the highest burning calorie exercise or activity that ever existed on this planet?
0:06.2	That's what we're going to talk about today.
0:07.6	Now this information is based on a person that weighs about 155 pounds and all of these activities are based on one hour of doing them.
0:16.8	A lot of these exercises cannot be performed for a whole hour, but just to give you a relative
0:21.6	comparison per unit of time I'm going to list
0:25.6	everything by the calories burned and then when we're done I want to clarify some
0:30.4	really important points on calories because it's not all about burning
0:34.7	calories. We start with sleeping. You'll burn 50 calories per hour when you're
0:40.5	sleeping. And then we graduate to sitting, being sedentary, sitting on the couch.
0:45.0	65 calories per hour you can burn just by doing nothing.
0:50.0	And just as a side note, if you chew gum, you can burn a few more calories an hour.
0:54.4	If you laugh, you can burn a few more calories per hour.
0:58.4	And if you fidget, you can burn a few more calories per hour all very insignificant so when you're sitting
1:04.6	there watching TV at night eating popcorn find a comedy start laughing fidget
1:09.1	while you're chewing gum and eating the popcorn at the same time then Then we have standing, takes a little more energy to stand,
1:15.0	so we have 110 calories.
1:18.0	Sex, it's not an exercise, it guess it could be,
1:21.0	you'll burn about 200 calories an hour, but most people do not spend an hour performing that exercise probably more like I don't know four minutes maybe 10 minutes then we have planks if you did plank for an hour you'd burn
1:34.8	240 calories. That seems pretty strange because it seems like a plank would
1:39.1	burn way more calories. I'll have to double check that one, but I tell you one thing, I don't think most people can do a plank for more than, you know, five, ten minutes, let alone an hour.
1:50.0	Okay, then we have walking moderate pace pace, about three miles an hour.
1:53.6	You'll burn about 240 calories an hour.
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