Are you really interested in reducing those extra calories that too without stepping onto that exhaustive treadmill or taking laps into that swimming poll? If your answer is in the affirmative, but do not know how to do it, reading further is surely going to be of great help to you.  

Burn calories by household chores 
You must be shocked to know the amount of calories that you can actually reduce by doing simply household chores. This way you will not only be able to complete your household work yourself, but also be able to get back into shape by burning the extra calories that you have accumulated in your body over years. 

The key lies in doing all of it briskly. If done quickly, it isn’t difficult for a 150 lb person to burn up to 140 calories within half an hour of mopping the floor.  

Vacuuming also burns the same amount of calories. If you iron for 30 minutes, it will also cut down 75 calories from your body.  

Outdoor activities that helps to burn calories 
Outdoor activities are also equally good to blow extra calories. Pulling weeds for half hour can burn 177 calories and 120 calories for tending the lawn from the same person who weighs 150 pound. Gardening often has cardiovascular and muscular benefits as it involves bending and stretching. 

Car washing for one hour can take away whooping 300 calories from your body mass. Grass clipping and bagging leaves can help you burn 136 calories within half an hour. 

You can even burn 130 calories if you visit a grocery store. Add another 100 calories in case you briskly walk for half an hour to reach the store. If you still fail to do all this, merely sleeping for 8 hours can help you burn 50 calories.  

Indoor activities to compensate for extra calories consumed  

You can easily compensate for the slice of cake that you have taken by cleaning things once the party is over. If this task takes around an hour of your efforts, you will probably end up burning 300 calories. Also, if you are in full spirit and take the initiative to wash dishes as well, you will get rid of another 152 calories. Rearranging furniture for about an hour before the party and even after it will definitely help you to do away with 450 calories more. 

However, it is important to mind that all these activities should be done with great vigor and strength for maximum benefits. All this would surely be worth the cake that you had eaten. 

Not to forget the home improvement activities like indoor paintings that take away 204 calories from you, installing and removing carpet and roofing that counts to 400 calories less from your body.  

Nevertheless, do not forget to drink lots of water while roofing on a hot day.

According to general fitness knowledge, it is believed that both running and walking would burn the same amount of calories every mile. However, there is no such thing that proves the truth behind this information. 

Running and walking – most common exercises
Running and walking are basically two of the most common and effective ways for improving overall health and keeping up in shape of an individual. The reason for this is probably that, there is no specific training that is required for these activities to an able bodied person as opposed to activities that require correct and trained movements such as swimming, biking or swinging at the golf club. 

It can be said that running and walking burns the same amount of calories considering the fact that the distance covered in both cases is the same and so should be the energy consumed in the activity. But this is not true. This is because the burning of calories is normally related to the total quantity of oxygen that is being consumed. 

When you exercise continuously, you burn around five calories by consuming a liter of oxygen. Running definitely consumes more oxygen than walking, even when the distance covered is same. 

More calories burnt in running than walking
A paper titled ‘Energy Expenditure of Walking and Running’ published in the Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, discussed about the study of researchers which showed the calorie burnt by 12 men and women over a distance of 1600 meters on treadmill was quite varying. While the men burnt 124 calories on an average by running, women calories burnt was counted to be 105 only.  

On the other hand, while walking, the calories burnt by men amounted to 88; women figures were recorded to be 88 calories only. The calories burnt by men were more than women due to their large bodies and muscle mass. 

To conclude from this, it can be said that the calorie burnt in running is around 50% more than what it used to be in walking. The reason for this disparity in calories burnt is that when a person walks, the vertical movement of gravity is quite smooth. But when a person runs, he is actually combining set of jumps together. 

This leads to a constant increase and decrease in the central gravity that is affected by these jumps. Therefore, the effort or energy put in running is more than walking the similar distance.    

Calculation of calories burnt
Also, what you should notice while calculating your calorie figure is the fact that there is always a difference between the net calories burnt and the total calories burnt. 

Net calories are achieved by subtracting baseline calories burnt (existing calories burnt in the body) from total calories burnt. Hence, if your burn 200 calories on treadmill and your metabolism for baseline for a similar amount of time is 50 calories, your net calories would be 150 calories. 

Ignoring this point, you might get mislead by an overstated calorie figure burnt by you.