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For 150 pound person, walking 6 miles burns about 500 calories. Running burns a similar number of calories per mile, but our runner ran only half as far as the walker. Step aerobics gives a good workout and burns more calories per hour, but again our exerciser spent only a half hour in the step aerobics class. Sex usually doesn't burn as many calories.
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