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In this series, Surprising Ways to Slash 500 Calories, we discuss a variety of ways you can easily eliminate 500 calories from your daily routine resulting in an easy weight loss of one pound per week. You may not even think these food or beverage items “count”, but they do. Our job is to help you in your weight loss goals and even if you were to burn one less calorie day; it would add up over time.
Instead of running out to buy a cardiovascular training machine such as an elliptical or treadmill; why not buy something more fun? It’s called a trampoline and even without kids … it’s a cool thing to have. Trampolines cost anywhere from $29.99 for a simple private model and go has high as $1399.99 for a large fancy model, and and can be tremendous tool for slimming down while making you laugh a lot too
Jumping at a medium pace, a 150 lb person, can burn 407 calories per hour of jumping on a trampoline. Throw some cool BIG jumps in or jump more vigorously to kill a full 500. There are full trampoline exercise routines all over the internet if you simply google them. Click here for an example workout.
Use the TrampoFit app to measure the number of calories burned during jumping on the trampoline. Easy to use. Free download.