08/20/06

       THE POWER OF 100

The secret to weight loss is simple: just burn 100 extra calories per day and you can lose more than a pound a month, 15 pounds a year. The really good news: we found 88 simple ways any guy (or girl) can do it.

1. Putt 156 golf balls
2. Chop wood continuously for 4 minutes, 22 seconds.
3. Swim a few laps of your favorite stroke: eight minutes or less (depending on the stroke)
4. Run a 5-minute mile. (You’ll have burned 100 after 4.5 minutes)
5. Jump on a stationary bike and ride it at a pace of 20 mph for four minutes, 52 seconds.
6. Hum the ROCKY them song and skip rope for 9.5 minutes
7. Hike the great outdoors with at least 22 pounds in your backpack for 9 minutes, 15 seconds
8. Stack $560,000 worth of $100 bills into 56 piles of $10,000 each
9. Reenact the end of any movie starring Van Damme, Seagal or Lee (martial arts burns 100 calories roughly every 8 minutes)
10. Play tennis for 9 minutes
11. Ski down the advanced slope for 15 minutes
12. Tread water for 14 minutes
13. Travel underwater instead of on top of it and you can burn calories even faster. Scuba-diving: 7 minutes, 11 seconds
14. Save gas by riding your bike to work (21 minutes at a leisurely pace)
15. Snorkel in a pool and kick at a moderate pace (14 minutes, 5 seconds)
16. Paint the house or clean the gutters for 16 minutes
17. Throw long passes while avoiding the Steelers defense for 10 minutes
18. Hit the weights for 13 minutes
19. March in a protest of your choice for 10 minutes (Carrying a sign or placard will burn 7 more calories)
20. Take an intense aerobics class for 11 minutes, 8 seconds
21. Wrestle with your kid brother on the floor for 7 minutes
22. Play half a period of professional hockey
23. Go two rounds with Lennox Lewis. (Can’t go that long? No problem. Lying unconscious on the gorund for an hour and a half will burn the same amount)
24. Spend 13 minutes helping your wife find just the right spot for the ^#*$*! Couch
25. Slow dance through seven songs (about 26 minutes)
26. Shower her with 9,240 min kisses all over her body
27. Bowl 10 games
28. Sweep her off her feet and carry her to the bedroom (This only works if your bedroom’s on the 13^th floor. If not, you burn 8 calories per flight of stairs, so walk around a bit)
29. Play 13 hands of poker
30. Plant two medium size trees
31. Shovel snow for 12 minutes, or use the snow blower for 17 minutes
32. Throw fastballs to the Yankess for two innings (14 minutes on the mound)
33. Sip ice water all day long. Eight 16-ounce glasses of ice water raises your metabolism (the rate at which your body burns calories) and burns an extra 100 calories
34. Woo her with a 33 minutes turn on the piano
35. Make love for about an hour (Then again, if you can accomplish this on a regular basis, she probably doesn’t care how fat you are)
36. Make breakfast in bed for her (includes cooking for 20 minutes, serving it to her and, yes, doing the dishes)
37. Stand in line for concert tickets for 65 mintues
38. Get stuck in traffic for almost an hour
39. Use a stationary rower for 11 minutes
40. Wash and wax the min van for about 18 minutes
41. Play the nickel slots 234 times
42. Stack firewood for 15 minutes
43. Move boxes into the attic for 10 minutes
44. Putter around the garden for a little over 17 minutes
45. Walk through the mall with a bag of packages for 19 minutes
46. Push mow the lawn for 14 minutes
47. Play power pool (You’ll need to shot 10 racks at an average of 3 minutes a game)
48. Shoot some darts: four games of countdown 301 or one game of cricket
49. Restore your classic Mustang for 18 minutes
50. Watch 2.5 back to back episodes of Seinfeld reruns- without snacking (four episodes if you have them, commercial-free, on DVD)
51. Push a pencil for 45 minutes
52. Lift and lower the toilet set 3,740 times (Just be sure to leave it down on the last one)
53. Take Rex, your bulldog, out for a 23 minute walk
54. Walk back and forth to the copier for 26 minutes
55. Type email for 48 minutes
56. Hit the open road like Peter Fonda in Easy Rider: 32 minutes
57. Talk up a client for 52 minutes
58. Run with scissors for 9.5 minutes
59. Do 97 pushups
60. Do 146 crunches
61. Grab a golf club and make like swashbuckling Errol Flynn. You’ll burn 100 calories in just 8 minutes
62. Play racquetball for 7 minutes, 17 seconds
63. Defend America’s pride during the Olympics table tennis scene in Forrest Gump (roughly 10 minutes)
64. Chop down 5 small trees
65. Stand in the mirror and repeat, “Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me?” 100 times
66. Pretend to be the bogey man and chase a kid around for 16 mintues
67. Help the kids build a snowman for 26 mintues
68. Jump up and down on the bed 1,336 times
69. Push your child in a stroller for 30 minutes
70. Play dodgeball or hopscotch with your kids for about 15 minutes
71. Volunteer to pick up trash along the highway for 19 minutes
72. Wrap 21 Christmas presents
73. Fly your private plane for 38 minutes
74. Red the financial section for an hour
75. Change 52 diapers
76. Dance like Travolta (Disco John in Saturday Night Fever: 14 minutes: 90’s John in Pulp Fiction: 18 minutes)
77. Rake leaves for 20 minutes
78. Give her a full body massage for 19 minutes
79. Face an NBA star on the court for 9 minutes
80. Haul out the trash 8 times
81. Wade in heavy current while fishing for more than 12 minutes
82. Talk with your mouth full for more than 38 minutes
83. Man a sailboat for 26 minutes
84. Walk uphill for almost 13 minutes
85. Carry Tiger’s clubs for two holes
86. Crush 623 cans for recycling (Warning: not against your forehead)
87. Wash the windows in your living room for 18 minutes
88. Tell the driver to stop, then hop out of the taxi and walk the last 12 blocks