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100 ways to burn 100 calories

IN THE SHORTEST TIME POSSIBLE

Less than 5 minutes

Chop wood continuously for 4 minutes, 22 seconds.
Run a five - minute mile. (You'll have burned 100 by 4½ minutes)
Jump on a stationary bike and ride it at a pace of 20 MPH for 4 minutes, 52 seconds.

Less than 10 minutes

Hum the theme song Rocky as you skip rope for 9½ minutes.
Hike the great outdoors with at least 22 pounds in your backpack for 9 minutes, 15 seconds.
Play racquetball for 7 minutes, 17 seconds.
Swim a few laps of your favorite stroke back, breast or butterfly): 8 minutes or less, depending on the stroke.
Travel underwater instead of on the top of it and you can burn calories even faster. Scuba-dive for seven minutes,11seconds.
Hit a few on the tennis court: Play for nine minutes.

Less than 15 minutes

Ski down an advanced slope.
Tread water for 14½ minutes.
Snorkel in the pool and kick at a moderate pace (14 minutes, five seconds).
Use a stationary rower for 11 minutes.
Hit the weights for 13 minutes.
Take an intense aerobics class and enjoy the scenery for 11 minutes, eight seconds.
Walk uphill for 13 minutes.

PLAYING PROFESSIONAL SPORTS

FACE Michael Jordan on the court for nine minutes.
Go two rounds with Mike Tyson. (do not think you could survive that long? No problem. Lying unconscious for an hour will also burn the same amount.)
Carry Lee Trevino's bags for two holes
Throw fastballs to the White Sox for two innings (14 minutes on the mound)
Play half a period of professional hockey. (Lose calories and teeth at the same time.)
Bowl 10 frames against Earl Anthony. (You may not bowl 300,but you will burn 100).
Throw long passes while avoiding the Pittsburgh Steelers defense for 10 minutes.

DURING A ROMANTIC EVENING

Woo her with a 33- minute tune on the piano.
Slow-dance through seven songs about 26 minutes).
Give her a full body massage for 19½ minutes.
Shower her with 9,240 mini-kisses all over her body.
Sweep her off her feet and carry her up to the bedroom. this only works if your bedroom's on the 13th floor. If not, you burn eight calories per flight of stairs, so walk her round a bit.)
Make love for about an hour. Then again, if you can accomplish this on regular basis, chances are she does not care how fat you are.)
Make breakfast in bed for her the next morning. Include cooking for 20 minutes, serving it to her and,yes,doing the dishes.)

WITHOUT MOVING A MUSCLE

Watch 2½ back-to-back episodes of Mary Tyler Moore reruns (four episodes if you have them on the tape and you are zapping the commercials).
Get stuck in traffic for almost an hour.
Slip ice water all day long. Eight 16- ounce glasses of ice water raises your metabolism (the rate which your body burns calories) and burns an extra 100 calories.

WORKING AROUND YOUR HOUSE

SPENDING TIME WITH THE BOYS

Play power pool. You'll need to shoot 10 racks at an average of three minutes a game.)
Shoot some darts: four games of countdown 301 or one game of cricket.
Play 13 hands of poker.
Restore your buddy's classic T-bird for 18 minutes.

AT YOUR DESK JOB

DOING THE THINGS YOUR WIFE TELLS YOU TO DO

Spend 13 minutes finding just the right spot for the #@*&% couch.
Take rex out for a 23-minute walk.
Haul out the trash eight times.
Lift and lower the toilet seat 3,740 times. (Just be sure to leave it down on the last one.)

DOING THE THINGS MOM TOLD YOU NOT TO DO

DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER

ACTING OUT SCENES OF YOUR FAVORITE FILMS

Grab a golf club and make like a swashbuckling hero. You'll burn 100 big ones in just 8½ minutes (and probably break every lamp in the house).
Groove like Travolta during a dance-contest scene .
Hit the open road like a wild rider.
Reenact the end of any movie starring Van Damme, Seagal or Lee (martial arts): roughly eight minutes.
Stand in the mirror and repeat, Are you talking' to me? Are you talking' to me?" 519 times.

GETTING INTO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT

Chop down five Christmas trees. you could have a tree in every room of the house or be generous and volunteer to do the honors for your friends and family.)
Spend half an hour putting up the lights outside the house.
Roast peanuts on an open fire (31 minutes).
Save your Christmas shopping for the last minute: Walking briskly through a mall with a stack of packages will burn through 100 calories in just over 19 minutes.
Wrap 21 of those gifts when you get home.

BEING POLITICALLY CORRECT

LIVING THE GOOD LIFE

Man a sailboat for 26 minutes.
Read the financial section for an hour.
Drive on a polluted road with open windows of your second hand car for about 38½ minutes.
Travel the harbor lines during the peak hours in a second class compartment on the day when you have bunked office
Eat all the possible junk stuff from a dirty furnished third class restaurant at least twice a week.

BEING A GOOD FATHER

Push your child in a stroller for 30 minutes
Change 52 diapers.
Take your kids for an outing a day prior to the final exam
Sit to watch a horror film with your kid in the night instead of telling him all those weird stories about prince and princess.