Summer workouts

Best Season For Outdoor Workouts
2011 Summer

Do You Prefer Working Out in the Summer or Fall?

The San Francisco weather is a lesson in unpredictability: after a sunny weekend, it's currently foggy and misty outside.
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The San Francisco weather is a lesson in unpredictability: after a sunny weekend, it's currently foggy and misty outside. In the span of 24 hours, it's almost as if we've made the transition from Summer to Fall, something illustrated by the runners in my neighborhood. Over the weekend, it was shorts and tanks, but today it's all about leggings and hoodies.

While some activities don't make the transition from Summer to Fall so easily — surfing anyone? — other sports like running, cycling, or hiking can be done during both seasons. To move into Fall with ease, it takes a wardrobe change and some extra planning due to the weather and sunrise and sunset times. When it comes to outdoor workouts, do you hope for the hot days of Summer or prefer the cool climate of Fall?

Workouts That Burn 500 Calories
Weight Loss

How to Burn 500 Calories: Ideas For Longer Summer Workouts

I try to make time at least once a week to do a longer workout to build endurance, but also to burn major calories.
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I try to make time at least once a week to do a longer workout to build endurance, but also to burn major calories. Curious to know what exercises and activities burn 500 calories? Check out the ideas below.

  • Go for a moderate bike ride: 64 minutes burns 504 calories.
  • Tennis anyone? Burn 503 calories in 73 minutes.
  • Take a canoe ride along a lake or river: two hours and 25 minutes burns 500 calories.
  • Play a round of golf: after about an hour and a half, you'll burn 504 calories. Just be sure to carry your clubs.
  • If it's raining, head inside for a Zumba class: an hour and 13 minutes burns 503 calories.
  • Go climbing: rock climbing for an hour and four minutes burns 504 calories.
  • Head out for a hike: you'll end up burning 502 calories in an hour and 25 minutes.
  • Grab a jump rope: you'll have burned a whopping 502 calories after skipping around for just 51 minutes.

Keep reading to hear more ideas for 500-calorie workouts.