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Here's an interesting quiz that I found which provides some good insight into the prortion sizes:

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One of their answers I really question....

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. If you walk leisurely for 1 hour and 10 minutes, you will burn approximately 400 calories.*

Based on a 130lb person - that seems high... Unless their version of leisurely and mine are completely different -

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If you lift weights for 1 hour and 30 minutes, you will burn approximately 257 calories.*

that seems disturbingly low... while I enjoy my dumbbell time, I'd really hope there'd be more bang for my buck

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