Calories Burned During Exercise

The truth is that no amount of working out will matter if you don't fix your eating habits. Below Craig Ballantyne of Turbulence Training sets out to find out if an intense kettlebell workout can burn the junk food calories that most people eat on a weekly basis.

Calories Burned During Exercise: Starbucks vs. Kettlebell Swings

Kettlebell swings are incredibly challenging even for really fit people and they burn tons of calories especially when combined into a 30 minute fat blasting circuit.

A 30 minute circuit workout that includes kettlebell swings can burn tons of calories (depending on how hard you workout) but that doesn't even come close to burning the calories in a typical starbucks drink plus pastry.

Brad Pilon, author of the super popular intermittent fasting plan Eat Stop Eat, guzzled down well over a thousand calories of starbucks food just to prove this point. He said he was o.k. doing it then 30 minutes later he felt seriously ill.

If you plan to burn fat be sure to stay away from high calorie food and fake health foods (more on that below) otherwise you undo the calories burned during exercise.

Calories Burned In Exercise: Mini Protein Bar vs. Treadmill Speed Walking

Here's a perfect example of how most people do cardio (hey I used to do this too, about 15 years ago). They jump on the treadmill and flip through a magazine for 30-40 minutes then follow it up with a "mini" protein bar or a big jug of gatorade and then wonder why they can't lose weight or bodyfat.

Here's a few tips that Craig didn't mention in his mini workout: 1. Eat real food, it's better for weightloss and fatloss than fake health food (bars included). 2. Eat 4-6 small portions of real food throughout the day (small means small). 3. Workout like you mean it (stop wasting time with lame workouts).

Losing fat is all about adequate calorie intake and effective calorie burning. Click the link to watch more diet vs. exercise videos or check out the calorie restriction article to learn how to successfully implement calorie restriction for fatloss.