Having a hard time resisting all the leftover Halloween candy in your house? You’re not alone, many of us have found ourselves with a pile of empty wrappers from the sweet treats we just gobbled without really realizing it. If you’re trying to stay disciplined with all that sugar around but the temptation is more than you can handle, knowing what you’ll need to do to burn those calories off may keep you from reaching into the candy bowl for more.
And that’s where the National Academy of Sports Medicine can help. They’ve crunched the numbers to find out how much exercise it’ll take to work off the calories in some popular Halloween candies. These are based on someone weighing 180 pounds, but it’ll give you an idea.
- Snickers – A Fun Size Snickers bar has 160 calories and it takes 15 minutes of pushups to burn those off, and that’s if you go really hard because the calorie burn ranges between four and 11 per minute.
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups – The beloved peanut butter chocolate combo does contain protein, but these treats also have 110 calories in each cup. You’ll need to jump rope for nearly half an hour (27.5 minutes) to clear that cup.
- Skittles – If tasting the rainbow is your thing, just know that each Fun Size bag of these fruity candies contains 60 calories. To work those off, you’ll need to punch a heavy bag for seven and a half minutes.
- Butterfinger – A Fun Size Butterfinger packs 85 calories and to torch those, you’ll need to swing a kettlebell for anywhere between four to 21 minutes.
- Twix – The pairing of caramel and chocolate is a classic that’s hard to resist, but each Fun Size Twix bar is 80 calories. And it takes eight minutes of box jumps to work those off.
- M&M’s – It’s easy to think that because these candies are little, you can eat more of them, but each little bag of M&M’s comes with 73 calories. You’ll need to walk seven minutes on a treadmill at a 5% incline going four miles per hour to work them off.
- Sour Patch Kids – Kids of all ages love these chewy, sour treats, unfortunately, chewing them up isn’t enough of a workout to burn off the 150 calories in a five-ounce bag of them. But slamming battle ropes for a full 13 minutes will do the trick.
Source: National Academy of Sports Medicine⠀
