10 minute exercises to burn off Beer and Wine

Beer and wine are loaded not only with calories, but with sugars that transfer into empty calories and carbs that stick around for a long time. The best way to get rid of these excess carbs is with some gentle exercise – walking, jogging, running and so on.  We’ll help you find out just how much exercise is needed to burn off those weekend drinks.

How Many Calories Did I Drink?

There is a great little tool at DrinkAware which allows you to enter how many drinks you had the night before.  It then shows you how many calories and alcohol units that is. We’ve done the basic calculations for you below, but you can click the image to take you to the calculator.

10 minute exercises to burn off Beer and Wine

Calories burned whilst exercising

The amount of calories you burn depends on your height, weight and how fast or slow you jog.   As a rough rule of thumb, here are some basic figures for 10 minutes of exercise.

Activity Weight (KG) Calories Burned
Walking 50 30
Walking 70 40
Walking 90 50
Jogging 50 60
Jogging 70 80
Jogging 90 105
Running (10 min mile) 50 80
Running (10 min mile) 70 120
Running (10 min mile) 90 150

You can use the calculator here for other activities.

Exercise to burn off the drink

By using the two basic figures above,  we can calculate how many minutes you need to run for to burn off those alcoholic drinks. The figures below assume a running pace of 10-minute-miles, a walking pace for walking the dog, and a weight of 70KG.

Drink Calories Walking Running
4 pints Lager (Fosters) 193 50 mins 16 mins
4 pints Cider (Strongbow) 244 60 mins 20 mins
4 standard glasses Rose wine 124 30 mins 10 mins
4 standard glasses White wine 130 32 mins 11 mins
4 standard glasses Red wine 119 30 mins 10 mins
4 bottles AlcoPops (WKD) 201 50 mins 17 mins

Sources
Drinkaware.co.uk
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