Exercise Facts

The average sexual encounter burns about 100 calories, roughly equivalent to walking for 20 minutes.

To burn off one plain M&M candy, you need to walk the full length of a football field.

In a lifetime, an average person walks the equivalent of 5 equators

A McDonald's Super Size meal (Big Mac, Super Size fries, and Super Size Coke) contained around 1,600 calories—requiring roughly 6-7 hours of walking to burn off.

You lose muscle slower than you gain it - taking a few weeks off from the gym won't erase months of progress thanks to 'muscle memory' at the cellular level.

The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime

A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day.

Gardening is said to be one of the best exercises for maintaining healthy bones.

Deep Breathing gives you health benefits similar to aerobics.

Exercising makes you both more productive and happier for the rest of the day. Thanks to the release of brain chemicals, it improves your brain function and memory, and the positive effect lasts for the entire day.

Thanks to muscle memory, strength and muscle lost during a break from exercise can be regained much faster than it took to build originally.