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(Nintendo) Wii Will Rock You... Or There's Always Tennis?

Despite its appearance as little more than a toy, the Nintendo Wii can help some people exercise at home when they wouldn't otherwise. 200 calories isn't a massive amount by any means, but the 200s add up, and any exercise is good for the heart and joints. The Wii has several games including social games like boxing and dance competitions that are family-friendly and can make sure that you enjoy the time and effort spent. Or you can use the games alone. Either way, about 50 minutes of participation means about 200 calories burned, and the time will fly by when you're having fun!

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Jump Rope For Great Cardio And Health Benefits In Just A Few Minutes

Jump rope is one of the most efficient and effective ways to get a cardio workout there is. All you need is a rope and some floor. Although skipping can be very intense and moves like double unders can be massive calorie burners, simple basic skipping is good enough to torch calories faster than you'd think. Keep on the balls of your feet but let your heels touch the floor, just don't put any weight in them: think of your heels kissing the floor like you'd kiss a baby. Watch out - if your foot movement isn't up tom scratch you can hurt your knees or back skipping on hard surfaces like concrete. Skipping for about fifteen minutes will burn 200 calories.

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Wash Your Car By Hand To Burn Calories And Make The Car Look Great

Washing your car by hand is probably the only way to get the wash you really want; no-one cares as much about your car as you do, after all. But it's also a great way to sneak some exercise into your day. Washing your car by hand means reaching, stretching and scrubbing as well as enough wax on, wax off to keep Mr. Miyagi happy for a fortnight. Get the hose and bucket and get cleaning! Expect the whole job to take about 40 minutes, by which time you'll have burned off 200 calories easily!

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Strike Out! Bowling Can Be A Fun Way For The Family To Exercise

Bowling doesn't really have the reputation of being a highly athletic game, and it's not, really: that's what makes it so good for something like this. You can take your whole family for a sedate, relaxing game and compete with your nearest and dearest for an invented trophy or the sheer joy of trouncing the competition. The game means getting out of the house and spending some time with the family, which is always better than spending the evening slumped in front of the TV, and even if all your splits are 10-7, you'll burn 200 calories in an hour of bowling.

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30 Minutes Swimming Can Be Enough To Burn 200 Calories

Swimming can be a great relaxing way to exercise. There's no impact, which means it's friendly to both battered joints and brittle bones, and it's usually easy to find a local pool where you can do 30 minutes of lengths. The Arthritis Association recommends exercizes that strengthen muscles, stretch muscles, and offer an aerobic benefit and swimming ticks all three of those boxes. Swimming has also been shown to increase bone strength, especially in post-menopausal women. About 30 minutes of swimming should burn over 200 calories, though that figure can vary. For one thing it depends on the individual's build and body, but as a rough guide the breast stroke should burn 60 calories every 10 minutes, the backstroke should burn about 100 calories in 10 minutes and if you're feeling brave the butterfly stroke burns about 150 calories every 10 minutes!

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Cycling Is A Great Way To Get Fit And Burn Calories

Cycling can offer great cardio benefits as well as strengthening the whole body; although it obviously affects the legs most, the arms and core are also involved to a high degree. It's also a highly practical way to get around. Taking the family for a ride through the local park or over a bike trail can be a way to spend some time together and sell a little exercize to your kids in the form of an adventurous excursion. Depending on the speed you go at and the terrain you cover, cycling will burn about 200 calories every 30 minutes.

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Get Organized Around Your Home: Tidy The Garage To Lose Clutter And Calories

Tidying the garage or basement is the job we all put off for ever. But while getting it done can result in a basement that isn't overflowing any more or a garage that you can actually fit your car in, the benefits don't stop there. In between hurrying around, shifting things overhead and off high shelves and hefting big boxes and equipment, tidying up the house's more rugged areas can be a great calorie burner. It's exhausting and messy but afterwards you'll have the satisfaction of knowing how much better it looks, and you can use the work to burn off some extra calories. Just 25 minutes of this kind of activity can burn over 200 calories.

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Redesign Your Home To Get The Benefits Of A Workout

Moving the couch is a good test of functional fitness. It's also a good way to burn off some calories. Moving furniture around your home can be exhausting work, so remind yourself how much good it's doing you! After you figure out where you want everything, the work of finding out what does and doesn't fit round the corners begins... Changing the living room around by simply shifting a couple of items of furniture can be all it takes to burn some calories without really thinking about it. About 25 minutes of rejigging the house can take 200 calories easily!

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Garden Work Will Shed Calories As You Plant And Weed

Working in the garden can be exhausting. It can also be refreshing, especially if you're planting and raising vegetables or fruit. A range of garden tasks, including weeding, digging and turning and pruning, need doing year round, so there's always something to out there. If you don't have a garden, you could offer to help an elderly person in the neighborhood with theirs: good for you both! Gardening has been found to reduce insulin resistance, related to the onset of metabolic syndrome and diabetes. And that's before you harvest your fruit and vegetables! About an hour of gardening will burn 200 calories, more if the work is strenuous.

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Make Your Living Room A Dance Hall

Push the furniture to the sides of the room and make like it's a dancefloor! Fish out your favorite songs or make an online playlist and grab a partner (or a chair; it was good enough for Elvis...) The benefits of dancing for your health are well known. It can help lower the blood pressure, relax you and build balance and muscle tone as well as improving posture and giving you a cardio workout. Fairly simple undemanding dancing can burn up to 200 calories in 40 minutes. If you want to do some breaking, of course, that's entirely up to you...