Barre class

leannlinam
leannlinam Posts: 1 Member
edited December 2024 in Introduce Yourself
Hello!! I am re-starting this journey of logging diet and exercise. Barre class isn’t listed in the exercises. I think it burns more calories than pilates, but not as much as aerobics. How would you classify it in exercise?

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  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,223 Member
    I would use one of the top two entries on this page, which give 5 METs for a ballet rehearsal class. Alternatively, the site lists pilates at 3 METs, and low-impact aerobics at 5 METs, so based on your estimation of the effort, you could split the difference at 4 METs.

    4 METs means you would burn 4X your RMR (resting metabolic rate) during that activity. If you don't want to go to the trouble of figuring out your RMR (although I'm sure there are lots of calculators online to estimate that for you), you can just multiply your weight in kg by the METs for the activity to get an estimate of calories burned per hour for that activity.

    Then just create your own exercise entry on MFP, or you could use the MFP cardio exercise entry "Dancing, aerobic, ballet or modern, twist" which seems to have a value of about 5 METs.
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