No.5 Surprise Exercise: 5 Calorie Burning Activities You Already Do and 5 Routine Tweaks to Burn Even More - Women Campus
Offer to Take Out the Trash: 15 Minutes
Calories Burned: 112
Take a walk around your house, apartment, or dorm and gather up all that garbage. If you're feeling generous, offer to take everyone else's trash to the curb, too. It's a stinky job, but someone's gotta burn the calories.
Get Gaming and Learn to Play Cards: One Hour
Calories Burned: 108 (assuming it's a high-intensity game)
Here's a surprising one. Learning poker may do as much for your wallet as it does for your workout. Become a big better and you'll be sweating it out as much as you would on the treadmill. Five-card draw, anyone?
Note: Actual calorie results may be slightly more or less than given. These are taken from Discovery Health and the healthstatus.com calorie counter for a 150-pound individual. There is no set way to do some of these activities, but in the end, they all have a significant impact on your daily workouts.
Sources:
http://health.howstuffworks.com/wellness/diet-fitness/information/20-everyday-activities-and-the-calories-they-burn.htm
http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc
http://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/happiness/calories-laughing.htm