100 Ways to Burn 100 Calories

• Less Than 5 Minutes
• Less Than 10 Minutes
• Less Than 15 Minutes
• Without Moving a Muscle
• At Your Desk
• Being a Good Person
• During a Romantic Evening
• House Work
• Hanging Out
• Listening to Your Wife
• Acting Like a Kid
• Movie Scenes
• Xmas
• Living the Good Life
• Being a Good Parent
• Playing Sports
• Insanity

Less than 5 minutes

• Chop wood for 4 minutes, 22 seconds.
• Run a 5-minute mile → You'll have burned 100 by 4½ minutes.
• Jump on a stationary bike and ride it at a pace of 20 MPH for 4 minutes, 52 seconds.

Less than 10 minutes

• Hum the Rocky theme song as you skip rope for 9½ minutes.
• Hike the great outdoors with at least 22 pounds in your backpack for 9 minutes, 15 seconds.
• Play racquetball for 7 minutes, 17 seconds.
• Swim a few laps of your favorite stroke (back, breast or butterfly) for 8 minutes or less.
• Scuba-dive for 7 minutes,11seconds.
• Hit a few on the tennis court → Play for 9 minutes.

Less than 15 minutes

• Ski down an advanced slope.
• Tread water for 14½ minutes.
• Snorkel in the pool and kick at a moderate pace for 14 minutes, 5 seconds.
• Use a stationary rower for 11 minutes.
• Hit the weights for 13 minutes.
• Take an intense aerobics class for 11 minutes, 8 seconds.
• Walk uphill for 13 minutes.

Without moving a muscle

• Watch 2½ back-to-back episodes of Mary Tyler Moore reruns
• Get stuck in traffic for almost an hour.
• Sip ice water all day long. Eight 16-ounce glasses of ice water raises your metabolism enough to burn 100 extra calories.

At your desk

• Push a pencil for 45 minutes
• Walk back and forth to the copier for 26 minutes.
• Type for 48 minutes.
• Talk up a client for 52 minutes.

Being a good person

• Plant two medium sized trees.
• Save gas by riding your bike to work. (21 minutes at a leisurely pace)
• Volunteer to pick up trash along the highway for 19½ minutes.
• Crush 623 cans for recycling.
  

During a Romantic Evening

• Woo her with a 33-minute tune on the piano.
• Slow-dance through seven songs (about 26 minutes)
• Give her a full body massage for 19½ minutes.
• Shower her with 9,240 mini-kisses all over her body.
• Sweep her off her feet and carry her up to the bedroom. This only works if your bedroom's on the 13th floor. If not, you burn 8 calories per flight of stairs.
• Make love for about an hour. Then again, if you can accomplish this on regular basis, chances are she does not care how fat you are
• Make breakfast in bed for her the next morning. Include cooking for 20 minutes, serving it to her and yes, doing the dishes.

House Work

• Paint the house or clean the gutter for 16 minutes
• Rake leaves for 20 minutes.
• Push-mow the lawn for 14 minutes.
• Wash and wax the car for about 18 minutes.
• Shovel snow for 12 minutes, or use the snow bowler for 17 minutes.

Hanging out with friends

• Play power pool. Shoot 10 racks at an average of three minutes a game.
• Shoot some darts: four games of countdown 301 or one game of cricket.
• Play 13 hands of poker.

Doing the things your wife tells you to do

• Spend 13 minutes finding just the right spot for the #@*&% couch.
• Take the dog out for a 23-minute walk.
• Haul out the trash 8 times.
• Lift and lower the toilet seat 3,740 times.
  

Acting Like a Kid

• Run with scissors for 9½ minutes.
• Talk with your mouth full for 38 minutes.
• Jump up and down on the bed 1,336 times.
• Wrestle with your brother or sister for 7 minutes.

Acting out movie scenes

• Groove like Travolta during a dance-contest scene.
• Hit the open road like a wild rider.
• Reenact the end of any movie starring Van Damme, Seagal or Bruce Lee for 8 minutes.
• Stand in the mirror and repeat, "Are you talking' to me? Are you talking' to me?" 519 times.
• Grab a golf club and make like a swashbuckling hero. You'll burn 100 big ones in just 8½ minutes.

Xmas

• Chop down 5 Christmas trees. Put a tree in every room of the house or… Volunteer to do the honors for your friends and family.
• Spend half an hour putting up the lights outside the house.
• Roast peanuts on an open fire (31 minutes).
• Save your Christmas shopping for the last minute: Walking briskly through a mall with a stack of packages will burn through 100 calories in just over 19 minutes.
• Wrap 21 of those gifts when you get home.

Living the good life

• Man a sailboat for 26 minutes.
• Read the financial section for an hour.
• Drive on a polluted road with open windows of your second hand car for about 38½ minutes.
• Travel the harbor lines during the peak hours in a second class compartment on the day when you have bunked office.
• Eat all the possible junk stuff from a dirty furnished third class restaurant at least twice a week.

Being a good parent

• Push your child in a stroller for 30 minutes.
• Change 52 diapers..
• Take your kids for an outing a day prior to the final exam.
• Watch a horror film with your kid instead of telling him weird stories about prince and princess.

Playing professional sports

• FACE Michael Jordan on the court for 9 minutes.
• Go 2 rounds with Mike Tyson. Don't think you could survive that long? No problem. Lying unconscious for an hour will also burn the same amount.
• Carry Lee Trevino's bags for two holes.
• Throw fastballs to the White Sox for two innings (14 minutes on the mound)
• Play half a period of professional hockey. Lose calories and teeth at the same time.
• Bowl 10 frames against Earl Anthony. You may not bowl 300, but you will burn 100.
• Throw long passes while avoiding the Pittsburgh Steelers defense for 10 minutes.

Insanity
Doing the same thing over & over

• Play the nickel slots in Reno 234 times or $11.70 worth.
• Do 97 pushups at 10 pushups a minute.
• Do 146 crunches at 15 crunches a minute.
• Putt 156 golf balls at six putts a minute.
  

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