Calories Burned
MarieRich
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What is the best way to determine calories burned with JD? I don't have a heart rate monitor and there is no calculator for this kidn of dance.
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It's tough to do this w/o a hrm (I don't have one either). I've read that you can take your sweat points and divide it by 4.2 to get you calorie burn but some days when I play with friend's I get up to 8000 sweat points and that seems a bit ridiculous that I would have burned 1,904 calories!
It varies with weight etc... but I found this to be a great site to use as an estimate: http://www.fitnessblender.com/v/article-detail/How-Many-Calories-does-the-Wii-Just-Dance-Game-Burn/4h/0 -
The 4.2 did seem pretty ridiculous so I have been dividing the sweat points by 10 and putting that in. I decided to buy a HRM though because I do want to know so I will let you guys all know what I am averaging.0
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I have a HRM so that won't be a problem for me. But, I've never been part of a group before. What exactly am I doing? lol!0
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It's tough to do this w/o a hrm (I don't have one either). I've read that you can take your sweat points and divide it by 4.2 to get you calorie burn but some days when I play with friend's I get up to 8000 sweat points and that seems a bit ridiculous that I would have burned 1,904 calories!
It varies with weight etc... but I found this to be a great site to use as an estimate: http://www.fitnessblender.com/v/article-detail/How-Many-Calories-does-the-Wii-Just-Dance-Game-Burn/4h/
Thanks for sharing
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I have a HRM so that won't be a problem for me. But, I've never been part of a group before. What exactly am I doing? lol!
LOL you don't have to do anything. We could share sweat points for the day or week. Maybe we could all take the 7 day challenge and compare our sweat points at the end of the week!?0 -
The 4.2 did seem pretty ridiculous so I have been dividing the sweat points by 10 and putting that in. I decided to buy a HRM though because I do want to know so I will let you guys all know what I am averaging.
Tha would be great, def let us know 0 -
So I did my own experiment... as i mentioned I have been taking the sweat points and dividing by 10 and putting that in as calories. Today I used my new HRM and found that my old way of doing it was almost exactly the same. Obviously it will be different for each person but I think dividing by 10 will be a lot more close to the real burn compared to 4.20
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So I did my own experiment... as i mentioned I have been taking the sweat points and dividing by 10 and putting that in as calories. Today I used my new HRM and found that my old way of doing it was almost exactly the same. Obviously it will be different for each person but I think dividing by 10 will be a lot more close to the real burn compared to 4.2
That's great to know Thanks!! 0 -
I have a HRM so that won't be a problem for me. But, I've never been part of a group before. What exactly am I doing? lol!
LOL you don't have to do anything. We could share sweat points for the day or week. Maybe we could all take the 7 day challenge and compare our sweat points at the end of the week!?
Cool, thanks. Lemme know about the 7day challenge. I'll definitely have to bump up my "dancing" for that. Right now I generally only "dance" two days a week since I work 12 hour days and do my working out on my breaks on these days. But, if I'm challenged I will turn that Wii on and get dancing right when I get home and kick some dancin butt! ;-)0 -
Ditto! I would like a 7 day challenge! We just add up our points weekly! Let's do it!0
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I personally have an HRM and found that it truly depends on the intensity in which you do the dances. . it also depends on whether you choose lots of songs that are ranked to be high sweat or if you are doing the low sweat songs. .
Before I had my HRM I just logged dancing as High impact aerobics. Hope this helps.0 -
I logged it as "Dance - aerobic" and it was pretty spot on with the method of dividing sweat points by 100
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