Zumba lovers

SexyCook

I attend Zumba on Saturdays which I LOVE..and I use my Polar FT7 to count the calories for my body...Everyone body type is different so there is no way you set your calorie burn by others...Before I got my Awesome HRM...i use to estimate based on how I felt my heart rate and add it manuelly..Luckily I was short changing myself I found once I got my FT7...Great investment...

KelliH729

I'm aLOVER of Zumba. I would Zumba every day of there were classes to support it. I am at a loss as to why I cannot choose Zumba as a form of exercise here on MFP.

For you Zumba lovers, what kind of exercise do you choose??

I have a heart rate monitor so I just added my own exercise. I honestly cannot even find anything to come close to what I burn during the class either. In an average 60 minute class I am buring almost 700 calories.
I think the reason it is not there is that you can truly make Zumba what you want. It really depends on the instructor and how intense they are as well. But if you keep your arms raised more, your heartrate stays higher so you burn more calories. If you are more dynamic in your movements you will burn more then if you just keep the intensity lower (say stepping from side to side instead of jumping, etc).
So that is my belief as to why Zumba is not a catagory, there is just such a broad range of what you will burn during a class.

Onesnap

I did the research online to find out how much I personally burn. Then I added it to my list of exercises on here that way I can just add it easy each time. That way I'm not logging it as something it's not!