How many calories would me doing jumping jacks burn?
The answer to your question depends on the speed at which you perform jumping jacks. The faster you do them, the more calories you will burn. Vigorous performance of this exercise is about one jumping jack per second. Now, let’s go to a few sites to see how many calories you will burn by doing jumping jacks. We’ll take an average of the three estimates to give a better estimate. The first site, sparkpeople.com, says you will burn 416 calories per hour. The second site, my-calorie-counter.com,, gives an estimate of 436 calories per hour. The third site below, fatburn.com estimates you will burn 458 calories per hour. The average is about 437 calories per hour. At one repetition per second, you will do 3600 jumping jacks per hour. One jumping jack will burn 437/3600 calories, or 0.121 calorie. 100 jumping jacks burns 12.1 calories. 1000 jumping jacks burns 121 calories. Burning 3500 calories would require 28,926 jumping jacks (3500 divided by 0.121). Don’t worry about the repetiveness of
