

If you want to get a more accurate assessment of your calorie burn, start by wearing a heart rate monitor while you do the workouts. According to Sansone's blog, you can expect to burn roughly 100 calories per mile walked without boosters and about 125 to 150 calories per mile when using boosters.

These workouts have another, perhaps more long-lasting effect as well: Muscle burns calories more efficiently than fat, so by building muscle, you'll have the potential to burn more calories even when you're not actively engaged in exercise. Strength training burns calories in itself - and when performed while you're walking means more calories burned than if you were only walking. The act of moving your limbs against resistance is a form of strength training. In more advanced programs, Sansone incorporates upper-body and lower-body toning moves with the use of her "toning belt" as well as resistance tubing or bands and "booster" activities like squats. While age, gender, and intensity level always come into play, it's safe to assume that Sansone's walking programs are, at the very least, equivalent to low-intensity walking.

Sansone's workouts also include moves such as side-stepping, high-knees walking and kicking moves, which add more intensity and result in more calories burned. A 185-pound person can expect to burn roughly 178 calories walking for the same amount of time at the same pace. Leslie Sansone doesn't divulge how many calories are burned with one of her workouts - but depending on factors like your weight and intensity, you can burn between 100 to 150 calories per mile.Īccording to Harvard Health Publishing, a 125-pound person can expect to burn about 120 calories by walking for 30 minutes at a relatively slow 3.5 mile-per-hour pace.
