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Logging Belly dancing

Moondancer77
Moondancer77 Posts: 17 Member
edited November 2024 in Fitness and Exercise
I've tried finding an answer for this and can't seem to find one. What would you log as cardio for doing instructional belly dance? I know there' and entry for belly dance in general but to me there's a huge difference in following an instructional video and actually belly dancing. I feel the calories listed for that entry is too much for a video. Any suggestions?

As a further explanation is says I burn about 60 more calories belly dancing is 30 minutes than I do walking for 30 minutes at a 4.0 pace. I would just about equate them in terms of effort put out. Which means the calories burned should be about the same.

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  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,783 Member
    There are a couple of calorie burn calculators found by a Google search. This is just one..


    http://calorielab.com/burned
  • Moondancer77
    Moondancer77 Posts: 17 Member
    That gives the same amount of calories as mfp.
  • TeaBea
    TeaBea Posts: 14,517 Member
    Moondancer77 wrote: »
    That gives the same amount of calories as mfp.

    Just over ride the calorie burn estimate. Many of the calorie burns here are too high. Most people start by eating back 50% of exercise calories because of the "generous" estimations.
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