How to burn calories using NEAT
Posted on: 01/Sep/2015 9:56:26 AM
Although you need exercise to burn fat, you can burn calories by performing day to day activities. Burning calories equals losing weight. Of course, this is also proportional to the amount of calorie intake.
Try out these simple changes to your routine by using what experts call non exercise activity thermogenesis or NEAT. This is basically a term for movement that is not vigorous enough to be named exercise. Whether you gain or lose weight, or not, the amount of NEAT in your lifestyle matters a great deal, according to experts. So how do you incorporate NEAT into your life? Read on.
If you have a sedentary job, chances are that you are more inclined to obesity. The American Heart Association has said that those who are obese tend to be seated for 2.5 hours or more per day compared to their leaner counterparts. NEAT can help you lose upto 350 calories a day. Get up and move for at least 15 minutes every hour. Walk to the restroom or the water cooler. You can run an errand. Use the stairs rather than the elevator. File your papers in standing position instead of sitting.
When you are relaxing, add some activity to your TV time. Iron your clothes (standing up). Dust furniture or sweep the floor as you watch TV or listen to music. Make sure you don`t eat in front of the TV. While talking on the phone, walk around instead of sitting down. If you are entertaining yourself on the computer, give yourself 15 minute breaks every once in a while.
If you have kids, increase walking time with them. Walk your kids to the bus or van stop. If close enough, walk your kids to school. If you drive them, park your car a little further off and walk to and from the school. This extra walking time will also help you chat with your kids and catch up with their lives.
Do household chores. According to CalorieCount.com, chores can burn a few hundred calories an hour! Grab a broom or a mop and clean your home. You can find household chore workouts online too. You could also clean your cupboard, your kitchen and your car.
According to NEAT, you could also burn calories while socializing! Don’t sit when you go to a party or a friend’s home. Be more social by standing or circling the room to talk to more people. Offer to help the host - they burn the most calories at a party!
