Calculating zumba

tinkerpuppet

What do you use to log Zumba? I just did it for the first time today, and worked my butt off (hopefully!). I did 25min at what is for me mid-high intensity. By the end I'm not sure I could carry on a conversation and I'm covered in sweat (and I don't sweat easily). I used the "dance-aerobic" option, and it gave me 133cal. Using an online Zumba calculator, its 217. Which one would be more accurate? (the Zumba one asked for my intensity).

I'm going out for dinner tonight, every calorie counts today!

marquesajen

I log any latin dancing or similar as the dance/modern/aerobic one, but you could probably manually enter what you burned from the calculator. The only way to know exactly would be a heart rate monitor while you do it though.

therealangd

Did you use this one?

http://www.zumbacalories.com/

When I go to Zumba I use 500 per hour. It could be higher, but I don't think for me, it's under. So if that's the case then the 217 for you would be closer.

The other side is to err on the side of caution and go low and think you are over, then to over estimate and eat more than you should.

100 calories in this case isn't enough to worry about in my opinion, if it's a once in a while thing.

iamvillanueva

I log as high impact aerobics. I get a calorie count of 445 for 1 hour, which is still under what the people in my class who wear hrm.

YcatsFursworth

I've logged it as "Dancing, aerobic, ballet or modern, twist" which logged me as 457 calories for a hour!