Running at moderate to fast speeds burns more calories than jumping jacks. For a 150-pound person, doing vigorous jumping jacks burns roughly 549 calories per hour. Faster runs dramatically increase your calorie burn: Running at 8 and 10 mph burns 918 and 1,224 calories, respectively.

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Jumping jacks can help in building muscle strength effectively. This stands true for the muscles which are engaged in doing jumping jacks, like the calves, hip abductors, core muscles, abs, lower back muscles and shoulder abductors. This is the reason why many high-intensity interval routines include jumping jacks.

Another big benefit that you can get from doing jumping jacks on a daily basis is that they can help you lose a pretty serious amount of weight. Doing a lot of jumping jacks for a prolonged period of time will definitely burn some calories. Try doing a few hundred jumping jacks.

Doing 100 jumping jacks a day will burn about 10 calories for every minute of doing jumping jacks. If you do the math, it means that you would lose 20 calories. The number of calories lost doing jumping jacks is calculated using the MET value (Metabolic Equivalent of Task) of Jumping Jacks.

Push ups are quite effective when it comes to building muscles. The same cannot be said when it comes to helping one lose weight. Although they are a good exercise, they do not trigger a quick fat burn. This is due to the fact that push ups do not cause a significantly elevated heart rate.