Congratulate yourself on adding walking to your daily routine. This extra activity improves your health and can help you slim down -- how long that will take depends on your intensity and eating habits. Weight loss happens only when you create a calorie deficit -- or when you're burning more calories than you take in.

Jumping rope is an effective calorie-burning exercise, which in turn means that it is a quality exercise choice for those interested in losing body fat. Consistent jump rope workouts and a healthy eating plan will likely lead to weight loss.

Although using crutches might take some getting used to, it’s important to maintain as much physical exercise as your injury allows. The amount of calories you burn will depend on your weight and the length of time you walk on your crutches.

The average person’s stride is 2.5 feet long and the average person walks 1 mile in 2,000 steps, according to The Walking Site. This means that 500 steps is roughly equal to one-quarter mile.

Whether you are trying to bulk up or slim down, understanding the relationship between calories eaten and calories burned is crucial, but figuring it out can be a challenge. A number of factors can impact that relationship, plus people burn calories at different rates, even while doing the same activities.

The key to maximizing weight loss through exercise is to always keep your body guessing. Changing your routine, varying the intensity or adding strength-training exercises are ways to maximize your workout. Don't allow your body to adapt to your routine.

The Easy Shaper is a piece of exercise equipment that marries a padded metal bar to resistance bands to create a lightweight exerciser that lets users perform resistance, abs, cardio and pilates workouts.

You’re never too old to swing. Swinging on a swing is fun -- and it is good exercise. For every hour you swing, you burn 200 calories. Swinging is different than most workout programs, as it can make you feel like a kid again. You can get fit and spend time outdoors.

Mathematically, if you burn 500 calories a day, it should take you a little more than two months to lose 10 pounds. However, while burning calories through exercise is one way to lose weight, it's important to eat a healthy diet, too.

You can burn 140 calories in less than 15 minutes using a high-intensity exercise; it takes somewhat longer using less-intense workouts. Depending on the type of exercise you choose, how hard you do it and your body size, you can burn your calories with or without special equipment.

Trampoline exercise, also called rebounding, is almost 70 percent more effective in fitness training than jogging on a track for the same amount of time according to a 2006 NASA research report published in the journal "Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine."

A whole-body vibration workout requires you to stand on a platform that shakes your entire body, firing muscle activity needed to keep your balance. When doing this workout, you burn more calories than when standing still.